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Midweek dinner

Serve with mashed potatoes and fennel to make an elegant but simple meal.
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Grilled lamb cutlets with black olive butter

Easy enough as a midweek meal but also special enough to serve if you’re entertaining.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon, rosemary and polenta.
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Speedy chicken scaloppine with capers, lemon, rosemary and polenta

This Italian-style thinly sliced chicken dish takes a few minutes to cook.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Marinated minute steaks with sesame daikon salad and steamed rice.

Flash in a pan: Six speedy minute-steak dinners from around the world

Forget meat-and-three. These midweek dinners inspired by Mexico, Japan, France and Italy will keep things interesting.

Carbonara you can slurp with a spoon? We’re here for it.
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Soup of the carbonara variety

Traditionalists, look away. This lovely, hearty soup is pasta you can slurp with a spoon.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Green curry and lemongrass soup.

Thai green curry and lemongrass soup

Built around frozen peas, this soup gets a tick for convenience and delivers bags of flavour in very little time.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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Taco soup with all the toppings.

Mexican-inspired taco soup

Taco Tuesday meets Soup Night in this hearty Tex-Mex meal with all the toppings.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s oregano and lemon lamb cutlets. 
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Adam Liaw’s Greek-style lamb cutlets with oregano and lemon

I think the fat makes for a tastier cutlet, and I prefer them un-frenched for this recipe.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Gnocchi

Four Stephanie Alexander veg recipes that kids actually love to eat (and cook)

These simple dishes have been trialled, eaten and approved by kids, making them perfect for less experienced cooks.

  • Stephanie Alexander
Tomato soup, extra dirty.
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Dirty martini tomato ‘n’ olive soup

When you’d like nothing more than an ice-cold martini, but midweek life has other plans, this soup gives hits of salty, briny goodness.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Tuna cakes.
EASY

The RecipeTin magic touch that lifts these tuna patties from meh to marvellous

A drizzle of garlic butter is all it takes to turn pantry staples into a surprisingly tasty meal.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi