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Adam Liaw potato rosti.

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The most popular recipes for the year so far

Potatoes, pastas and traybakes are leading the way for the first half of 2020. Unsurprisingly, comfort food featured heavily (stodgily?), given the general feeling of uncertainty during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

30 recipes
Giant potato rosti.
EASY

1. Potato rosti

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Quarantine tomato sauce: One pot, many meals.

2. Quarantine sauce

  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's pantry pasta.
EASY

3. Penne with chickpeas and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Buttermilk scones with jam and cream.
EASY

4. Buttermilk scones

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Crispy corn fritters.

5. RecipeTin Eats' extra crispy corn fritters

  • Nagi Maehashi
Adam Liaw's garlic butter roast chicken

6. Garlic butter roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Sneak plenty of vegies into this 50/50 bolognese sauce.

7. Fifty-fifty bolognese

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Syrian-style baked chicken with cous cous.

8. Speedy Syrian chicken bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve this curry with naan and rice.

9. Chicken in spinach and green pea curry

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Thai red curry fried rice recipe for RecipeTin Eats Good Food online column March 2020. Good Food use only. Not for syndication. Must credit RecipeTin Eats. Image supplied by Nagi Maehashi.

10. Thai red curry fried rice

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

11. One-pan chicken and haloumi bake with honey and lemon

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Many tortellini fillings would work in this rustic pasta bake.
EASY

12. Sausage, kale and tortellini bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
The Chiang Mai soup reimagined as noodles and meatballs.

13. Khao soi chicken meatballs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve this classic braised stew with buttery mash, steamed veg and a glass of wine.

14. Neil Perry's classic beef bourguignon

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
This one-pot wonder will warm you up.
EASY

15. Chickpea and rice one-pot wonder with yoghurt and greens

  • Katrina Meynink
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Pepperoni potatoes.
EASY

16. Pepperoni hasselback potato traybake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Is it a cake? Is it a slice? Lemon 'brownies' with frozen berries.
EASY

17. Lemon 'brownies' with winter berries

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Skip the weird ingredients lists and make enchilada sauce from scratch.
EASY

18. Easy chicken enchiladas with self-isolating sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Beef taco rice with creamy, spicy avo dressing (top left).

19. Beef taco rice traybake with spicy avo dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Build-your-own souvlaki bowls.
EASY

20. Chicken souvlaki bowls with haloumi

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's simple vegetarian-friendly spaghetti.

21. Roasted carrot and tomato spaghetti

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
The 'Rona' sweet 'n' sour sauce.

22. The 'Rona' sweet 'n' sour chicken traybake

  • Katrina Meynink
Lemon yoghurt cupcakes.
EASY

23. Lemon yoghurt cupcakes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Parmigiana pasta.

24. Parmigiana pasta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Parsley is non-negotiable in this chicken noodle soup.

25. Chicken noodle soup

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Please don't judge the potato chips, come along for the ride.

26. Piri piri butterflied chicken 'n' chips

  • Katrina Meynink
Swap pesto for romesco in this pasta.

27. Romesco and goat's curd fettuccine

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Carrot and pumpkin pot pie.

28. Carrot and pumpkin pot pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Six-ish ingredient Greek lamb meatloaf.
EASY

29. Greek lamb meatloaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Jill Dupleix's osso buco.

30. Osso buco

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
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