Karen Martini's recipes

Karen Martini's recipes

Melbourne chef Karen Martini's recipes appear every week in Good Weekend magazine.

Baked tomatoes and capsicums stuffed with spiced rice, dried mint and haloumi.

Miso-marinated pork with quick-pickled cucumber and sesame kimchi.

EASY

Miso-marinated pork with quick pickled cucumber

2 hours +

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Serve this rustic lamb roast with feta, salad and bread.

MEDIUM

Greek-style lamb roast

1-2 hours

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Slow-cooked pork shoulder and celeriac with braised chickpeas and silverbeet.

MEDIUM

Slow-cooked pulled pork shoulder

2 hours +

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Mediterranean-inspired pot-roasted chicken.

EASY

Pot roasted chicken with tomatoes and olives

1-2 hours

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Gutting, cleaning and skinning the squid yourself always yields a more tender, tastier outcome, says Karen Martini.

MEDIUM

Grilled calamari with lemon puree

30 mins - 1 hour

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EASY

Baked blue-eye trevalla with potatoes and lemon and caper sauce

30 mins - 1 hour

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Pasta with fresh tomato sauce, ricotta, mint and anchovies (or capers).

MEDIUM

Maccheroni alla chitarra with fresh tomato sauce, anchovies, ricotta and mint

30 mins - 1 hour

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Chilled silken tofu dressed with ginger and crispy chilli sauce.

EASY

Chilled silken tofu

< 30 mins

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Use your favourite curry powder to flavour this roasted cauliflower.

EASY

Yoghurt-crusted roast cauliflower

1-2 hours

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Martini suggests serving this grilled chicken with a grain-style salad.

EASY

Charred chicken cutlets with kampot pepper

1-2 hours

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Sultanas add pops of sweetness to this massaman curry with cauliflower, potato and okra.

MEDIUM

Massaman vegetable curry

1-2 hours

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Fresh mozzarella salad with tomato dressing.

EASY

Mozzarella treccia with croutons and tomatoes

< 30 mins

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For a Mexican-inspired feast, serve this simplified chicken mole with with braised beans, guacamole, tortillas, corn ...

MEDIUM

Chicken and scorched chilli mole

1-2 hours

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Serve this spicy Sichuan stir-fry with steamed greens and rice.

EASY

Ma po tofu with chicken and wood ear fungus

< 30 mins

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This seared tuna is an elegant starter.

EASY

Seared tuna with anchovies, celery and mint salad, and green chilli mayonnaise

< 30 mins

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The umami-rich bottarga and anchovies provide neat foils to the freshness of the green chilli and zucchini flowers.

MEDIUM

Pennette with zucchini flowers, anchovy, mint, chilli and bottarga

< 30 mins

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Roasting the potatoes skin-on helps achieve a silky-smooth result. Serve the soup with sour cream, fresh jalapenos and ...

EASY

Corn, potato and speck chowder

1-2 hours

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Tomatoes and capsicums stuffed with spiced rice, dried mint and halloumi.

MEDIUM

Baked stuffed tomatoes and capsicums

2 hours +

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Tomato, watermelon and feta salad with wild fennel flowers (pictured right).

EASY

Tomato, watermelon and feta salad with wild fennel

< 30 mins

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Braised duck legs with carrots, chickpeas, orange and anise.

MEDIUM

Duck with chickpeas, carrots, orange and anise

1-2 hours

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