Weekly meal planner: Our easiest-ever recipes

Weekly meal planner: Our easiest-ever recipes

It's been a big year for home cooking, so take it easy this week with these throw-together recipes where you barely have to think.

Pesto chicken, lemon and supermarket leftover pasta soup.

Pasta sciue sciue.

EASY

Pasta sciue sciue ('hurry hurry')

< 30 mins

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Zucchini Carbonara.

MEDIUM

... or vegetarian carbonara with zucchini (the veg cooks in the pasta water)

< 30 mins

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A baguette can easily be transformed into garlic bread.

MEDIUM

Easy garlic bread

< 30 mins

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Mince with oyster sauce. Just add greens and steamed rice.

EASY

Mince with oyster sauce

< 30 mins

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Salmon and corn rice.

EASY

... or salmon and corn rice

< 30 mins

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One-pan wonder: Roast chicken marylands and haloumi cheese with added fresh honeycomb (if you're feeling extra).

EASY

One-pan chicken and haloumi bake with honey and lemon

30 mins - 1 hour

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Honeymoon Chicken.

MEDIUM

... or 'Honeymoon chicken' with lemon and rosé (enjoy a glass with the meal)

1-2 hours

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Easy guacamole.

EASY

Adam Liaw's easy guacamole

< 30 mins

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Tortillas with cheesy, speedy smashed beans.

EASY

... with tortillas with refried beans and salsa

< 30 mins

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Quesadillas with potato and chorizo.

MEDIUM

... or quesadillas with potato and chorizo

< 30 mins

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Adam Liaw's easy cheeseburgers.

EASY

Easiest-ever cheeseburgers

< 30 mins

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Coffee jelly with hazelnut cream.

EASY

Instant-coffee jelly with hazelnut cream

2 hours +

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Crush your favourite bikkies for this crumble.

EASY

...or biscuit crumble ice-cream (straight from a tub)

2 hours +

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Honey-mango smoothie.

EASY

Honey mango smoothies for brekkie

< 30 mins

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Pizza

EASY

Salad pizzas for lunch (using store-bought bases)

< 30 mins

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Melon and berry mascarpone tart with marmalade glaze.

MEDIUM

... and melon ball and berry mascarpone tart (buy the pastry case)

30 mins - 1 hour

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Adam Liaw's grape and honey creme flan.

EASY

Ditto this grape and honey creme flan

30 mins - 1 hour

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Karen Martini makes macaroni cheese even cosier.

EASY

Store-bought gnocchi works best in this spin on mac and cheese

30 mins - 1 hour

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Forever pumpkin.

EASY

Give this 'Forever pumpkin' a head-start in the oven

2 hours +

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Adam Liaw's garlic butter roast chicken

MEDIUM

Garlic butter roast chicken (save one breast for supper)

1-2 hours

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This has to be the easiest cauliflower cheese recipe.

EASY

... and this simplified cauliflower cheese on the side

< 30 mins

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This cheat's chicken noodle soup works with any small pasta shape.

EASY

Use up any random packets of pasta in this pesto chicken, lemon and pasta soup for tea

< 30 mins

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Puftaloons with golden syrup.

EASY

Puftaloons with golden syrup for pudding (aka the easiest scones you'll ever make)

< 30 mins

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