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Adam Liaw’s spanakopita.

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Your new vegie go-to, plus 20 more recipes you couldn’t stop cooking in April

It’s been a golden month for recipes, with beautiful new bakes, one-pots and Adam Liaw’s very special spanakopita masterclass all proving especially popular.

21 recipes
Helen Goh's apple, raisin and armagnac croustade.

21. Helen Goh’s ‘crumpled and generous’ apple pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Yellow curry fish with fragrant lemongrass and coconut rice salad.
EASY

20. One-tray coconut curry fish

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
White chocolate muffins.
EASY

19. Adam Liaw’s choc-chip muffins

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Serve with pita chips for scooping.
EASY

18. Spiced eggplant, tomato and chickpea stew with garlic yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Creamy salmon linguine.
EASY

17. Adam Liaw’s creamy salmon linguine

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Spiced honey and parmesan skewers, meet your new best friend, salsa verde.

16. Spiced honey and parmesan carrot skewers with salsa verde

  • Katrina Meynink
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Zucchini and potato tikki buns.
EASY

15. Rosheen Kaul’s aloo tikki buns

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Chicken soup and matzo balls.

14. Chicken soup and matzo balls

  • Lisa Goldberg, Merelyn Chalmers and Natanya Eskin
Viveik's crunchy masala vadai served with coconut and makrut lime sauce are the perfect party snack.

13. Masala vadai with coconut and makrut lime sauce

  • Viveik Vinoharan
Jen Kwok Lee's party-ready crumpets topped with wagyu bresaola, egg yolk jam, and creme fraiche.

12. Crumpets with bresaola and soft-boiled egg

  • Jen Kwok Lee
Coconut and sour-cherry flapjacks.
EASY

11. Coconut and sour cherry flapjacks

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Jane de Graaff's cheesy, fire corn jacket potatoes.

10. Jacket potatoes with cheesy fire corn topping

  • Jane de Graaff
Crisp-skinned chicken meets robustly flavoured vegies and a piquant salsa in this cacciatore remix.

9. Butterflied spicy chicken cacciatore

  • Lucy Tweed
Packed with all the good stuff.

8. Choc ‘fluffins’ with sneaky veg

  • Julia Tellidis and Lauren Skora
Helen Goh's chocolate, fig and marsala cake.

7. Helen Goh’s gluten-free chocolate cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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Based on the classic pound cake, these mini cakes zing with lemon and lemon thyme.

6. Emelia Jackson’s no-bake strawberry and passionfruit cheesecake

  • Emelia Jackson
Chicken provencal.
EASY

5. Adam Liaw’s one-pan chicken provencal

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Danielle Alvarez's beef short rib ragu with pappardelle.
EASY

4. Danielle Alvarez’s beef and tomato ragu with pappardelle

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Anzac biscuits are an Australian classic.
EASY

3. Stephanie Alexander’s Anzac biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Stephanie Alexander
Helen Goh's Anzac biscuits.
EASY

2. Helen Goh’s golden Anzac biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Helen Goh
Adam Liaw masterclass: Spanakopita.
EASY

1. Adam Liaw’s showstopping spanakopita

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw