Roasting mild paneer with yoghurt and ghee (or butter) gives it a complex, toasty flavour that’s balanced by the spices and gentle acidity of a quickly-made tomato curry.
Melissa Clark
Rosemary-infused olive oil sets this easy cauliflower soup apart. This recipe has you heat and steep four herb sprigs in oil as you cook the cauliflower in an aromatic-enhanced stock for the soup.
Lidey Heuck
Fire To Fork’s Harry Fisher left his finance career to start a popular camp cooking channel. Here, he makes the argument for cold weather camping down south, with his favourite spots and a recipe thrown in.
Harry Fisher
Fish almondine, a variation on a classic meuniere, combines toasted sliced almonds, brown butter and lemon juice as a sauce for sauteed, flour-dusted fillets.
Loaded with the season’s finest offerings, this pie comes together in one skillet (frying pan) and manages to be hearty yet light.
Hetty McKinnon
This astoundingly simple meal — it doesn’t even require any chopping — tastes as complex as anything you’d order from a restaurant.
Genevieve Ko
Green curry paste, coconut milk and fish sauce take this butternut pumpkin soup to the next level. Don’t skip the peanut-coconut-lemongrass topping, which adds crunch where creaminess is front and centre.
Samin Nosrat
As fun as a chocolate bar and as creamy as a cheesecake, this layered dessert looks and feels special but is simple enough for anyone to pull together.
Contrasting textures are key to Cantonese chow mein, in which crispy fried strands tangle with tender noodles. Here, that is achieved with the help of a sheet pan (baking tray) and an intensely hot oven.
Eggs “rancher’s style” is a traditional, hearty Mexican breakfast typically enjoyed after a hard morning’s work. But it also makes for a satisfying and comforting weeknight dinner.
Kay Chun
This semolina cake soaked in a floral syrup gets its texture from yoghurt that’s been mixed with baking soda and left to sit until doubled in size.
Tejal Rao
Some soups are a family affair: this one was passed down from grandmother, to mother, to son, namely Wesley Avila, the chef of Guerrilla Tacos in Los Angeles.
Alexa Weibel
As a love letter to WA, a local bartender has created a cocktail she believes has ‘never been seen before.’
Artemisia Blythe
Here’s a clever trick for making a big batch of pancakes that will save you from spending all morning at the stove: bake them all at once on a sheet pan, also known as a baking tray.
Jerrelle Guy
Chickpeas are front and centre in this vegetable soup, which gets just a little chew from risoni.
Eating malva pudding for the first time feels like meeting a soulmate, its swirl of butter and sugar instantly familiar to the deep heart’s core.
Sharp bites of spring onion complement earthy grilled steak that’s been marinated in a deeply savory combination of soy, mirin, sake and sugar in this traditional Japanese dish.
All stews are not created equal. This recipe calls for cooking brown mushrooms with herbs and onions in broth until they create a gravy-like base.
David Tanis
This stellar weeknight meal takes advantage of ingredients you may already have stashed in the cupboard or fridge.
This year-round pasta recipe has a spicy, rust-colored tomato-based sauce heightened by a concentrated lobster broth, flecked with chilli flakes and enriched with cream.
DAVID TANIS
Five-spice powder is a crucial ingredient in the Chinese pantry that also happens to be deeply versatile. Here, along with a bright splash of vinegar and ginger, it dresses up simple roasted carrots.
Sue Li
Think of this warming dish as a relay race, each ingredient handing its flavour to the next during an (almost!) hands-off cooking process.
Clare de Boer
An adaptation of jian bing, a breakfast dish served throughout northern China and Taiwan, this five-minute recipe swaps the traditional thin pancake for flour tortillas.
When a balmy evening inspires an ice-cream craving, it’s time for 60-second soft serve. Unlike ice-cream, this whips frozen fruit and a little dairy into a dessert that can — and must — be eaten instantly.
Clare De Boer
