Weekly Meal Planner: Australia Day edition

Weekly Meal Planner: Australia Day edition

Opt for easy, quick salads throughout the week, and then go all out with an Australia Day barbecue on Thursday, and cook up prawns, squid and sambal pork belly. Hosting friends on Saturday? Our chilli crab with cucumber rice, and a mango granita dessert is equal parts easy and impressive.

Palm sugar meringue and grilled pineapple with mango-passion fruit granita

Neil Perry's warm pumpkin salad with lentils and chilli.

MEDIUM

Warm lentil salad with pumpkin and chilli

30 mins - 1 hour

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Neil Perry's wok-fried duck with coconut milk, Thai basil and vermicelli noodles.

MEDIUM

Wok-fried duck with coconut milk, Thai basil and vermicelli noodles

< 30 mins

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Grilled shawarma chicken with mixed bean salad.

EASY

Grilled shawarma chicken with mixed bean salad

< 30 mins

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Matt Moran's Christmas barbecued prawns with nam jim dressing.

EASY

Barbecued prawns with nam jim dressing

< 30 mins

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Jill Dupleix's spicy sambal pork belly skewers.

EASY

Sambal pork belly skewers

< 30 mins

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Barbecued calamari.

MEDIUM

Barbecued calamari with a green tomato, herb and chilli salsa

< 30 mins

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Tropical pavlova with barbecued pineapple.

MEDIUM

Palm-sugar meringue and grilled pineapple with mango passionfruit granita

2 hours +

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Kingfish with green beans, hazelnuts and brown butter.

EASY

Kingfish with hazelnuts, beans and brown butter

< 30 mins

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Adam Liaw's Singapore chilli crab.

MEDIUM

Singapore chilli crab

30 mins - 1 hour

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Spicy cucumber and peanut salad (with lamb shanks).

EASY

Spicy salad: Chilli, cucumber, rice and herbs

< 30 mins

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Island Holiday dessert: mangoes with lychee granita.

EASY

Island holiday dessert with lychee granita

1-2 hours

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Pappardelle with rabbit ragu. Caroline Velik AUTUMN MENU recipes for Epicure and Good Living. Photographed by Marina ...

MEDIUM

Pappardelle with rabbit ragu

1-2 hours

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Pete Evans' paleo-friendly shaved cucumber and pomegranate salad with toasted walnuts.

EASY

Shaved cucumber and pomegranate salad with toasted walnuts

< 30 mins

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