101 easy recipes to cook for dinner tonight (2024)

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Thanks to Adam and his entertaining guests, things are now much calmer in kitchens across Australia. What's for dinner tonight? A quick skim through The Cook Up recipes and that question is finally solved. Not just what to serve for the main meal, but how to win favours by dishing up dessert, too.

This is fusion-cooking done so right it's practically nuclear. Its Japanese and Italian flavours are given a Vegemite bomb to make

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Every home cook needs a decent one-pan, oven-baked dish they can pull together fast and then just whack into the oven while life goes on.

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There's something about snow peas that are irresistible. Kids who run a mile from any other vegetable will happily dive into a bowlful of

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Nourishing, nutritious, full of goodness. An

at the end of a long day.

For a fresh take on an age-old family dinner, give

a whirl one night.

Slow-roasted pumpkin

. Colin Fassnidge packs in the spices and tops the whole thing off with a tangy buttermilk curd.

'Fish and vege' make the

. Fast to make and fresh to eat.

Chaat is India’s favourite genre of snacking street food for a reason.

has a long ingredients list, but is as quick to make as you'd expect from a street favourite.

Put the

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For maximum enjoyment, dinner should be a 'street food favourite'. They're the kind of dishes that are so tasty they

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Bowl food is

. Even when it's this healthy.

that contains onion, carrots, capsicum, celery, zucchinis, garlic, basil and, of course, tomatoes. Colin Fassnidge has kids. He gets it.

Adam turns the already comforting minestrone into

with minced Italian sausage and rice.

The answer to 'should we have

?' is always, 'yes please!'.

The other correct answer to 'what should we have for dinner?'

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Naming this dish 'TV spaghetti' does not do it justice. It's actually a

anchovies, parsley and chilli to conquer the summit of your pasta mountain.

Another zippy favourite, zhushed by Adam to be

. Is it the brioche burger bun? The Japanese mayo? Or the carefully placed dill pickle? All of the above.

' sounds less like a recipe title and more like a chorus of family dinner bells echoing across the suburbs.

When it works this well, there's nothing quite like the

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Meatless Monday

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brings Middle Eastern comfort food to your weeknight menu.

in Lizzy's share house back in the day. They'd eat it three or four times a week, but cooking it tonight for dinner would be a great start.

Another 'crumbed-delight', but

. One for the low-carb schnitty lovers.

The combination of buttery vegetables, tender salmon and savoury miso is

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Throw it back to the sixties with

. Follow it up with a bomb Alaska dessert is you truly want to set the nostalgia on fire.

Dishwashing fact: any dish with the world 'one-tray' in it's title is instantly 50 per cent

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Chase Kojima served up this

and we all dived in, mouth-first.

meets homemade bread. #wholesome

Emphatically

thanks to an 'enchanting' Chinese-inspired gravy.

A simple roast lamb

, turning red wine and rosemary into a rich teriyaki glaze.

Because feeding your kids a bowl of lentils for dinner is the

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An easy one-pan (there's that magical phrase again!)

that will take 15 minutes to get on the table.

A

from chorizo, tomato and capsicum somehow manages to balance the delicate fish, not overpower it.

The restaurant family

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You simply can't go wrong with one of the

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Bring on the

. Throw everything you've got in there for maximum flavour and nutrition.

When tomatoes are in season, there is

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Pesto pasta has long been the

of many a family. Now it's time to ditch the jar.

This looks exactly like a dinner most families

. Fortunately, it's prepared in much the same amount of time.

Step aside butter chicken, there's a

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Perhaps some of the appeal of this

is lost in translation, but don't let the name stop you. It's a tasty-as vegan classic that's healthy to boot.

Skip the barbecue and fry your kabab in the pan on the stove. Those

and some.

Doria is an Italian-inspired dish that originated in France, but now only seems to exist in Japan

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Chicken wings may be cheap and cheerful, but when they're

they're also spectacular.

Dessert-inject some protein with Adam's

. They take a tiny 15 minutes from whoa to go.

Adam nails a

. Five minutes of prep for an evening of 'you're the best cook ever's.

A banana split is always a good idea, particularly when the

. Do try this one at home.

filled with a blend of chocolate, Tim Tams and mini marshmallows is always going to make the list.

It's French, so it has to be complicated and fiddly, right? Wrong! But it does have to be luxurious and special and

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We

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Sometimes it just

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A good pudding is

. Sweet, comforting and endlessly satisfying.

If you've never

, you're doing everything right. Make this one anyway.

A fruity dessert ends the meal just right. In this one, Adam adds a pickled shallot

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This is the kind of sweet that would really

(see above).

A quick

that will be on high-rotation in no time at all.

This is exactly how you

, right?

The French love a good pastry dessert, and dishes like

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Once you get the hang of them, delicious

. Just ask any yiayia.

We'll let biscotti

. Because biscuits really are the best way to end both meals and mammoth favourites lists.