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The oven-free recipe collection

When it's too hot to turn the oven on - or you just can't bothered - here are 45 recipes packed with flavour and colour, that simply need assembling (and maybe a little boiling, searing or simmering). No sweat.

45 recipes
Ploughman’s bruschetta.
EASY

Adam Liaw's ploughman’s bruschetta

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Prawn cocktail meets sang choy bao.
EASY

Prawn cocktail sang choy bao

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Heirloom tomatoes topped with "cowboy caviar".
EASY

Cowboy caviar salad with heirloom tomatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Dress up some asparagus spears with this egg vinaigrette.
EASY

Asparagus with chopped egg vinaigrette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Potato salad with extra veg.

Vegetable and potato salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Green salad with dill vinaigrette.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Avocado and cucumber leafy salad with dill vinaigrette

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
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Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce.
EASY

Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Picnic cobb salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's picnic cobb salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chilled Spanish tomato soup for summer.

Gazpacho with vegie 'confetti'

  • Neil Perry
Zucchini spaghetti
EASY

Zucchini spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Warm weather-friendly ramen.
EASY

Chilled vegetable ramen for summer

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Tomato salad with tzatziki.
EASY

Heirloom tomato salad with tzatziki

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Burrata: Should be eaten within two days of being made.
EASY

Burrata with peppers, olives and capers

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Sriracha dressing gives this salad a good kick.
EASY

Poached chicken and cold soba noodle salad with spicy chunky nut dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Ice-cream with fruit salad dressing.
EASY

Vanilla ice-cream with fruit salad dressing recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Neil Perry's tuna, borlotti bean and red onion salad,
EASY

Tuna, borlotti bean and red onion salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Mexican salad with coriander, lime and black pepper dressing.
EASY

Mexican salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Poke rice salad bowl with kimchi.

Kingfish poke salad with soy mirin dressing and homemade kimchi recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Tuna, brown rice, sumac and green bean salad.
EASY

Tuna, brown rice, sumac and green bean salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Chickpea water makes possibly the lightest most spectacular aioli.
EASY

Raw vegan cauliflower tabbouleh with 'aioli'

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Barbecue duck rice paper rolls

Pick up some barbecue duck or char siu pork for these rice paper rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • Brigitte Hafner
Adam Liaw's delicious gado gado salad with eggs and peanut dressing.
EASY

Indonesian gado gado salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Bresaola with walnut paste, nectarine, radish cress and roquefort.

Bresaola with walnuts, nectarine and blue cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Roast chicken burger.
EASY

Cheat's roast chicken burger with aioli

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
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Nori ‘sandwich’ with tuna, avocado and tamari seeds.

Nori ‘sandwich’ with tuna, avocado and tamari seeds

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Peppered beef tataki with green chilli jaew.

Peppered beef tataki with green chilli jaew

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Heirloom caprese salad.
EASY

Heirloom caprese salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Deli pasta salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's deli pasta salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Cold Soba noodles with beansprouts, soy and ginger. Styling by Caroline Velik.
EASY

Cold soba noodles with beansprouts, soy and ginger

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Gochujang chicken bibimbap bowl.
EASY

Shredded chicken bibimbap bowl with quick spicy barbecue sauce and slaw

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
EASY

Spring vegetable bruschetta recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Salad of fresh peach, ham and mozzarella.

Salad of fresh peach, ham and mozzarella

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Three Blue Ducks' heirloom tomato gazpacho soup recipe.
EASY

Heirloom tomato gazpacho recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Vietnamese-style steak tartare
EASY

Vietnamese-style steak tartare

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Hawaiian poke
EASY

Tuna poke with rice crackers

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Prawns, wakame and ponzu on tofu.

Prawns, wakame and ponzu on tofu

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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