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Winter warmer

Duck breast with orange and red wine sauce.
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Adam Liaw’s duck breast with orange and red wine sauce

This deliciously sweet sauce with the flavours of mulled wine is a perfect accompaniment for duck.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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
Helen Goh’s tartiflette galette.

Tartiflette galette (cheese and potato tart)

Two classic French recipes combine to create this open-faced, cheese-and-potato pie.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Filled flatbreads with kale and potato masala.

All hail kale: The much maligned green veg that has finally become cool

Chef Rosheen Kaul unlocks the secret to making kale cool again.

  • Rosheen Kaul
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Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
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Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

This cheat’s pasta sauce will taste as if you’ve been working on it all day, with no slicing, dicing or chopping required.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chicken braised with mushroom and thyme.

It’s bloody freezing! Here are 20 of our favourite winter one-pots to warm you up

That bitter midwinter chill sure is icy, but these pots of gold will help take the edge off.

Side soup.
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Adam Liaw’s side soup

In the West, soup is commonly a first course, while in Asia it’s mostly served with the main. This is a Western-style soup you can eat as a side dish.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Spicy tomato, tortellini and chilli soup.

This simple slow-cooker tomato soup with shop-bought tortellini is pure comfort

Plus a hearty steak and Guinness pie and a chilli con carne macaroni melt that will come up beautifully in your slow cooker.

  • Nathan Anthony
Mexican-inspired soup with all the toppings.

Give taco Tuesday, Thai green curry and carbonara the soup treatment

Katrina Meynink transforms three dinnertime classics − and one cocktail − into fortifying, satisfying soups.

  • Katrina Meynink