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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
Serving suggestion: Chicken shish with flatbread, hot chips, yoghurt and mint.

Eight great kebab and souvlaki recipes for a relaxed meal with mates

Plus, the RecipeTin Eats’ lemony Greek potatoes that go with absolutely all of them.

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
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
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Adam Liaw’s dill and mint tzatziki.
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Adam Liaw’s dill and mint tzatziki

Dill and mint are a great herb combination, they work fantastically together in this yoghurt dip.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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
Karen Martini recipe :

Ragu alla Bolognese
Photograph by William Meppem (photographer on contract, no restrictions)

15 hearty winter pasta recipes to cook this week

Beef up your midweek pasta with sausages, slow-cooked meat, veg, rich sauces and more for a satisfying, warming meal.

Canned tomato soup is elevated to new heights in this version, served inside a garlic-buttered cob loaf.

Five ways to magic a meal from a can of tomato soup (starring this garlic-bread cobb loaf bowl)

Give a humble, cost-effective can a bit of juju with these ideas from Katrina Meynink.

  • Katrina Meynink
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