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Life's a picnic: 70+ sandwiches, cakes, tarts and more for delicious outdoor catch-ups

Dust off the basket, shake out the checked blanket and find your shady patch, it's picnic season. But what to eat? With our bumper picnic recipe collection the question is 'what can't you eat' in the great outdoors?

68 recipes
A portable version of pasta alla Norma.
EASY

Picnic pasta alla Norma

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Supersized sandwich: Two-metre banh mi.
EASY

Two-metre banh mi

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
A portable traycake with passionfruit icing.
EASY

Helen Goh's passionfruit picnic cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Grape and almond basbousa.
EASY

Adam Liaw's grape and almond basbousa

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Picnic cobb salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's picnic cobb salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Lemon drop biscuits with thick lemon icing.
EASY

Darren Purchese's lemon drop cookies

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Purchese
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Chicken and corn baguettes, wrapped and packed for a picnic.
EASY

Barbecue chicken baguette

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Scones meet strawberry shortcakes - the creme fraiche makes for a deliciously tender dough.

Strawberry, lime and creme fraiche scones

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Avocado and edamame dip with tortilla chips.
EASY

Edamame and avocado dip

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Picnic-friendly raspberry frangipane tart.

Raspberry frangipane tart

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Watermelon and strawberry salad, pictured with my iced tea.
EASY

Watermelon and strawberry salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Asparagus, pea and buttermilk quiche.
EASY

Asparagus, pea and buttermilk quiche recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
No soggy bottom: Spanakopita with puff pastry and haloumi.

Haloumi spanakopita

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Cheese and greens galette.

Vegetarian cheese and greens galette

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Cheese and onion tart
EASY

Cheddar and onion tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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Hummus.
EASY

Hummus

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
White bread, no crusts and the filling must be 'sloppy'.

Peter Rowland reveals the secret to his chicken sandwiches' success

  • Michael Fowler
Karen Martini's pesto recipe.
EASY

Karen Martini's pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
This recipe makes enough for six tartlets or one large tart.

Helen Goh's mushroom tarts with ricotta and dill

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Farro and haloumi salad.
EASY

Farro salad with haloumi

  • < 30 mins
Iced tea with lemon, mint and cucumber.
EASY

Iced tea

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Bread-and-butter pudding meets flourless orange cake.

Helen Goh's blood orange portokalopita

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
This loaf is packed full of seasonal vegetables.

Helen Goh's zaatar and spring vegetable loaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Rosemary and sea salt focaccia.

Dan Lepard's focaccia

  • 2 hrs +
  • Dan Lepard
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This savoury tart is inspired by the pantry staple pasta sauce.

Helen Goh's puttanesca tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Sticky Korean beef sausage rolls with kimchi.
EASY

Korean beef sausage rolls with sticky kimchi ketchup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Easy berry Chantilly cake.

Easy berry Chantilly cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Salad in a jar.
EASY

No-cook jar salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw's crunchy lamingtons (with rice bubbles).

Crunchy lamington recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
DIY smorrebrod.
EASY

DIY smorrebrod (open sandwiches)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Kipfler potatoes with lemon and horseradish.
EASY

Kipfler potatoes with lemon and horseradish

  • < 30 mins
  • Frank Camorra
Green Goddess dressing
EASY

Heirloom tomatoes with green goddess

  • < 30 mins
Greens and grains salad.
EASY

Greens and grains salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Buttermilk fried chicken with hot sauce.

Buttermilk fried chicken and hot sauce recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Neil Perry's fried chicken wings with garlic and rosemary.
EASY

Spicy egg-fried chicken wings recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Roast duck with rice paper rolls.

Roast duck rice paper rolls

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
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