Australian recipes
20 Australian recipes for a home kitchen, from 5 minutes. Have some of the ingredients already? Match them to what you have.
Dinner
20 min
Australian · dinner
Garlic prawns
Sizzling prawns in garlic butter, chili and parsley—a barbie favorite, mopped up with crusty bread.
20 min
Australian · dinner
Crispy-skin barramundi with chilli-lime dressing
Australia's favorite fish pan-fried skin-side down until glass-crisp, with a zingy chilli-lime dressing.
25 min
Australian · dinner
Fire-seared kangaroo (or venison) with pepperberry dressing
Lean red meat misted with oil, seared over intensely hot embers just to seal, rested to blood temperature and dressed with a native pepperberry vinaigrette and charred greens.
40 min
Australian · dinner
Aussie rissoles with gravy
Family-dinner beef patties with grated veg and barbecue sauce, served with onion gravy and mash.
120 min
Australian · dinner
Aussie meat pie
Footy-style individual pies of rich beef mince gravy in shortcrust with a puff pastry lid.
Lunch & snacks
Baking & sweets
5 min
Australian · baking
Fairy bread
The kids' party staple: soft white bread, butter and hundreds and thousands, cut into triangles.
15 min
Australian · baking
Chocolate crackles
Kids' party cups of puffed rice bound with cocoa, coconut and melted solid coconut oil.
20 min
Australian · baking
Hedgehog slice
No-bake chocolate biscuit fudge slice with crushed biscuits and walnuts under chocolate icing.
20 min
Australian · baking
Rocky road
Chocolate studded with marshmallows, raspberry lollies, coconut and nuts, set and cut into chunks.
30 min
Australian · baking
Anzac biscuits
Chewy-crisp oat and coconut biscuits sweetened with golden syrup, baked for Anzac Day.
30 min
Australian · baking
Golden syrup dumplings
Soft dumplings simmered in a buttery golden syrup sauce—cheap, quick winter pudding.
40 min
Australian · baking
Jelly slice
Three-layer retro slice: buttery biscuit base, condensed milk lemon filling and a shimmering raspberry jelly top.
45 min
Australian · baking
Damper
Simple bush bread made with self-raising flour and milk, baked in the oven or campfire, served with butter and golden syrup.
55 min
Australian · baking
Lemon delicious pudding
Self-saucing baked pudding: a light lemon sponge on top of its own tangy lemon curd.
60 min
Australian · baking
Pavlova with grapefruit curd and sunset fruits
A crisp-shelled, marshmallowy pavlova topped with tangy grapefruit curd, whipped cream and a pink-and-orange mix of raspberries, gooseberries, frosted grapes and pink peppercorns.
75 min
Australian · baking
Caramel slice (millionaire's shortbread)
Coconut shortbread base, thick golden-syrup caramel and a snappy chocolate top.
90 min
Australian · baking
Lamingtons
Squares of light sponge dipped in thin chocolate icing and rolled in coconut.
180 min
Australian · baking
Classic pavlova
Crisp-shelled, marshmallowy meringue piled with whipped cream, passionfruit and summer fruit—the Christmas centerpiece.
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