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The ultimate barbecue guide

Which cuts are best for the grill? What's the best marinade for your meat? Read on for everything you need to know about cooking over flames ...

38 recipes
Luxury pick: For something top-shelf, bust out some succulent beef.

Best meat cuts for the barbecue: sirloin, lamb cutlets, T-bone, dry age rib-eye on the bone

  • Megan Johnston
T-bone – or anything on the bone – is a winner on the grill.

How to supercharge your barbecue game for summer

  • Callan Boys
The Blue Ducks' tomahawk steak with chimichurri.
EASY

The Blue Ducks on how to cook the perfect steak

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
This cabbage salad is freshened with mustard, sweetened with currants and enriched with parmesan.
EASY

Barbecued sausages with red cabbage and mustard salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Char-grilled calzone stuffed with ajvar and slow-cooked pork.

Char-grilled calzone stuffed with ajvar and slow-cooked pork recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Dan Lepard
Barbecued corn salad with buffalo mozzarella.

Barbecued corn salad with buffalo mozzarella

  • < 30 mins
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Steak sandwich
EASY

Steak sandwich

  • < 30 mins
  • Brigitte Hafner
Three Blue Ducks' chimichurri recipe for Spectrum.
EASY

Chimichurri sauce recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Neil Perry's barbecued beef sirloin with onion, parsley and lemon salad.

Barbecued beef sirloin with onion, parsley and lemon salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's spicy barbecued chicken.
EASY

Spicy barbecued chicken recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's beef sticks slicked with spicy tamarind marinade.
EASY

Beef sticks with spicy tamarind recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's spiced lamb with zucchini salad and pomegranate dressing
EASY

Neil Perry's spiced lamb with zucchini salad and pomegranate dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Charred corn salad with habanero dressing.
EASY

Mexican-style barbecued corn salad recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Lemongrass and herb marinated blue eye in banana leaf.

Marinated blue-eye in banana leaf

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Skirt steak with a spicy Korean marinade.
EASY

Neil Perry's spicy skirt steak and potatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Neil Perry's barbecued salmon and wilted spinach with anchovy butter.
EASY

Barbecued salmon and wilted spinach with anchovy butter

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
T-Bone steak with lemon salsa.
EASY

Barbecue T-bone with red pepper and lemon salsa

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
The secret is to cook the snag in sauce: Adam Liaw's perfect barbecued sausage in a bun.
EASY

The perfect barbecued sausage

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Wagyu beef burger

Wagyu beef burger

  • < 30 mins
  • Jane and Jeremy Strode
Spicy, charred Chinese-inspired skewers.

Adam Liaw barbecue recipes: Xinjiang-style lamb skewers with cumin and chilli

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Corn salad

Biggie Smalls' barbecued corn salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Shane Delia
Add these to your Australia Day menu.
EASY

Adam Liaw barbecue recipes: Beef rissoles with avocado sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Light and crispy fish fillets with bucket loads of texture.
EASY

Adam Liaw barbecue recipes: Salmon with dill and roe cold sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Skirt steak with hoisin and chilli.
EASY

Barbecue skirt steak with hoisin and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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PIC SHOWS SAUSAGE AND BUN. PIC BY JENNIFER SOO, SMH. Shows sausages in bread rolls with onion confit and aioli.
EASY

Snags in a bun with onion confit and aioli

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Luke Mangan
Sticky baby back ribs.

Curtis Stone's sticky, saucy barbecue pork ribs recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Curtis Stone
Blue Ducks' barbecued squid with blackened capsicum salsa.
EASY

Barbecued squid with blackened capsicum salsa recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Kangaroo burgers
EASY

Kangaroo burger with beetroot relish

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Smoky glazed pork ribs with slaw and cornbread.

Pork ribs and slaw with cornbread recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Grilled quail - Frank Camorra
EASY

Grilled quails with spiced carrot salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Frank Camorra
T-bone steak with barbecue sauce.

Barbecued T-bone steak with home-made barbecue sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
What’s more Aussie than prawns on the barbie.
EASY

Barbecue prawn recipe: Buried prawns with salt and herbs

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Barbecued duck with cherries

Barbecued duck with cherries

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Beetroot relish

Beetroot relish

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Adam Liaw's easy cheeseburgers.
EASY

Burger recipes: Easiest-ever cheeseburgers

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Aussie burger.
EASY

Aussie burger - reader recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Vicky Spiller
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