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Meringue, coconut sponge and biscuits built to post. 125 Australian recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 125 recipes cover all ten of the site’s categories, among them 36 bakes, 22 desserts, 21 dinners, 19 lunches, 12 appetisers and small plates and 6 quick meals. Of these, 37 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Chicken Salt (5 min), Lemon, Lime and Bitters (5 min) and Spaghetti on Toast (7 min). For 39, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 92 easy and 33 medium.
As written, 78 are vegetarian, 9 vegan, 22 gluten-free and 22 dairy-free. Another 2 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Australian recipes — all 125 recipes
Baking
Anzac Biscuits
Oats, coconut, golden syrup and bicarbonate of soda bloomed in melted butter, baked chewy or crisp depending on how…
Baking
Lamingtons
Squares of day-old butter sponge dipped in thin chocolate icing and rolled in desiccated coconut, sometimes split…
Healthy
Beetroot, Orange and Feta Salad
Beetroot roasted in foil so it steams in its own juice, dressed while warm, and served against orange, feta and…
Lunch
Australian Meat Pie
A shortcrust base and a puff lid over a thick, dark beef filling that has been cooked and then cooled before it goes…
Bread
Damper
A round loaf of self-raising flour, butter and milk, cut with a cross and baked until golden, then torn open and…
Quick Meals
Crispy Skin Barramundi
Barramundi fillets seared skin side down until the skin crackles, finished with a lemon and caper brown butter…
Dinner
Lamb Cutlets
Lamb cutlets marinated in rosemary, garlic and lemon and barbecued hot and fast to medium-rare. Eighteen minutes…
Lunch
Grilled Prawn Salad
Barbecued king prawns over cos, mango and avocado with a sharp lime and chilli dressing. Twenty-six minutes, and…
Breakfast
Vegemite Toast
Hot buttered toast with the thinnest scrape of Vegemite. The Australian breakfast, made the way it is meant to be…
Desserts
Fairy Bread
Soft white bread, butter and a shower of hundreds and thousands, cut into triangles. The Australian children's party…
Baking
Cheesymite Scrolls
Soft yeast dough rolled up with Vegemite and cheese and baked into golden spirals. The Australian bakery scroll.
Lunch
Sausage Sizzle
A grilled sausage on a slice of folded white bread, with fried onions and tomato sauce. The Australian barbecue…
Lunch
Steak Sandwich
Thin sirloin, sweet caramelised onion, tomato, rocket and cheese in toasted Turkish bread with mustard mayonnaise…
Dinner
Aussie Burger
A beef patty with bacon, a fried egg, cheese, beetroot and grilled pineapple, in a toasted bun. The burger with the…
Dinner
Tuna Mornay
Pasta and tuna in a cheese sauce with peas, topped with breadcrumbs and baked until golden. The Australian weeknight…
Lunch
Zucchini Slice
Grated zucchini, bacon, onion and cheese in a baked egg batter, cut into squares. The Australian lunchbox and…
Breakfast
Bacon and Egg Roll
Crisp bacon and a fried egg in a buttered crusty roll, with tomato or barbecue sauce. The Australian breakfast from…
Dinner
Rissoles
Beef mince patties with onion, breadcrumbs and Worcestershire sauce, pan-fried and served with gravy. The Australian…
Baking
Pumpkin Scones
Soft scones made with mashed pumpkin, baked close together so they rise tall and eaten warm with butter. A…
Appetizers
Potato Scallops
Thick potato slices, part-boiled, dipped in a light batter and fried until crisp. The fish-and-chip-shop scallop…
Lunch
Dim Sim
Large pork and cabbage dumplings in a thick wrapper, steamed and then, if you like, crisped in a pan. The chip-shop…
Dinner
Mince on Toast
Beef mince simmered with onion, carrot, tomato paste and Worcestershire sauce, spooned over buttered toast. An…
Bread
Lemonade Scones
Self-raising flour, cream and lemonade, mixed and baked. Three ingredients and a light, tall scone, served with jam…
Appetizers
Chicken Salt
The Australian seasoning for hot chips: salt, paprika, garlic, onion, celery and chicken stock powder in one jar.
Baking
Cream Buns
Soft, lightly sweet yeast buns with a simple icing, split and filled with jam and whipped cream. The Australian…
Dinner
Pie Floater
A hot meat pie set upside down in a bowl of thick green pea soup and topped with tomato sauce. The South Australian…
Desserts
Tim Tam Cheesecake
A no-bake cheesecake with a Tim Tam crust, a filling of cream cheese, whipped cream and dark chocolate, and more…
Baking
Jam Drops
Soft, buttery biscuits with a well of jam pressed into the middle before baking. An Australian biscuit-tin favourite.
Desserts
Golden Syrup Dumplings
Soft dumplings simmered in a pan of golden syrup, butter and brown sugar. A stove-top pudding made in one pan, with…
Desserts
Hedgehog Slice
A no-bake chocolate slice of crushed biscuits, coconut and walnuts bound with a cooked cocoa mixture and topped with…
Baking
Neenish Tarts
Little sweet pastry tarts with a jam and vanilla cream filling, iced half in chocolate and half in white. The…
Desserts
Lemon Slice
A no-bake slice of crushed biscuits, coconut and condensed milk with plenty of lemon zest, iced with lemon icing. A…
Desserts
Lemon Delicious Pudding
A light lemon sponge that bakes with its own tangy custard sauce underneath. Beaten egg whites float to the top and…
Desserts
Self-Saucing Chocolate Pudding
A chocolate sponge topped with cocoa and brown sugar, then covered with boiling water. It bakes into a cake over its…
Baking
Honey Joys
Cornflakes coated in melted butter, sugar and honey and baked in paper cases until crisp. A children's party standby.
Desserts
Chocolate Crackles
Puffed rice, cocoa, icing sugar and coconut bound with melted coconut oil and set in paper cases. The classic…
Baking
Macadamia Nut Cookies
Chewy brown sugar cookies with roasted macadamias and white chocolate chunks. Australia's native nut, in the best…
Baking
Coconut Slice
A shortbread base spread with raspberry jam and covered with a baked coconut topping, then iced pink. A tea-table…
Baking
Boiled Fruit Cake
A dark, moist fruit cake made by boiling the dried fruit with butter, sugar and water, then stirring in the flour…
Baking
Cinnamon Teacake
A plain butter cake, brushed with melted butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar while it is still hot. Best eaten warm…
Desserts
Chocolate Ripple Cake
Chocolate wafer biscuits sandwiched with whipped cream into a log and left overnight, until the biscuits soften into…
Baking
Melting Moments
Very short, tender butter and cornflour biscuits sandwiched in pairs with passionfruit buttercream. They dissolve in…
Baking
Tim Tam Cake
A moist chocolate cake with crushed Tim Tams in the batter, covered in dark chocolate ganache and decorated with…
Desserts
Honeycomb
Sugar and golden syrup boiled to a deep amber and foamed with bicarbonate of soda into an airy, crunchy…
Baking
Blueberry Bread Loaf
A tender loaf with blueberries and lemon zest, baked with a sugar crust on top. It slices cleanly and keeps for days.
Baking
Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins
Tall bakery-style muffins with tart raspberries and chunks of white chocolate. A tender crumb and a golden dome.
Dinner
Honey Soy Baked Chicken
Chicken thighs and drumsticks marinated in honey, soy, garlic and ginger and baked until the skin is lacquered and…
77 more recipes, A–Z
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- Avocado Sandwich
- Baked Bean Pasta
- Banana Cake with Chocolate Icing
- Barbecued Prawns
- BBQ Lamb
- BBQ Prawns
- BBQ Salmon
- Beetroot Relish
- Bounty Slice
- Caramel Slice Bars
- Cherry Ripe Slice
- Chicken Mornay
- Chicken Schnitzel
- Chiko Roll
- Corn Relish
- Cornflake Cookies
- Curried Egg Sandwich
- Dagwood Dog
- Flat White
- Grilled Garlic Prawns
- Grilled Lamb Chops
- Grilled Moreton Bay Bugs
- Honey Soy Chicken Stir-Fry
- Honey Soy Chicken Wings
- Hot Roast Pork Roll
- Ice Cream Christmas Pudding
- Jelly Slice
- Kangaroo Steak
- Lemon Butter Cake
- Lemon, Lime and Bitters
- Mango Cake
- Mango Cheesecake
- Mango Sorbet
- Mars Bar Slice
- Milo Cake
- Milo Slice
- Mud Cake
- Muesli Slice
- Orange and Almond Cake
- Oysters Kilpatrick
- Pan Fried Barramundi
- Party Pies
- Passionfruit Cake
- Passionfruit Curd
- Passionfruit Slice
- Pineapple Fritters
- Pizza Toast
- Potato Bake with Cream
- Potato Cakes
- Potato Wedges
- Prawn and Avocado Salad
- Prawn Cutlets
- Pumpkin Curry
- Pumpkin Fritters
- Roast Pumpkin Salad
- Roast Pumpkin Soup
- Rum Balls
- Satay Sauce
- Slow Cooker Pea and Ham Soup
- Smashed Avocado on Sourdough
- Snag in Bread
- Spaghetti on Toast
- Spaghetti Toasties
- Steak and Cheese Pasty
- Steak and Cheese Pie
- Sticky Date Pudding
- Sweet Chilli Prawns
- Tim Tam Slice
- Tuna Toastie
- Vegemite Scrolls
- Weet-Bix Slice
- White Christmas
- Zucchini Fritters