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Recipes

Restaurant food, home quantities

Every recipe here comes off a menu I’ve cooked in a professional kitchen. I’ve scaled them down and swapped commercial equipment for what you have at home.

Rockling fillet with a green herb crumb crust sitting in a tomato, fennel and capsicum acqua pazza broth in a blue bowl

Seafood

Rockling with Acqua Pazza and Herb Crumb

1 hr 15 min · Serves 4

Vivid green pea risotto topped with a spoonful of white goat’s curd and grated cheese on a white plate

Pasta & Risotto

Green Pea Risotto with Goat’s Curd

50 min · Serves 4

Golden crumbed beef cotoletta with flaky salt, a pool of red wine jus, a lemon wedge and fennel and herb slaw

Meat

Beef Cotoletta with Red Wine Jus and Italian Slaw

1 hr 10 min · Serves 4

Pink sliced lamb rump with celeriac purée, braised cime di rapa and green gremolata oil on a blue plate

Meat

Lamb Rump with Celeriac Purée, Cime di Rapa and Gremolata

1 hr 5 min · Serves 4

Ruffled mafaldine pasta with shredded beef short rib ragù being lifted from a pink bowl with a fork and spoon

Pasta & Risotto

Short Rib Ragù with Red Wine, Porcini and Mafaldine

4 hr 10 min · Serves 6

Crisp confit duck leg on a stew of white beans, ’nduja and greens in a wide bowl beside a glass of white wine

Meat

Confit Duck Leg with White Beans and ’Nduja

3 hr 30 min · Serves 4

Spaghetti with halved prawns, chilli, parsley and crunchy pangrattato in a speckled bowl

Pasta & Risotto

Prawn Spaghetti with Chilli, Garlic and Pangrattato

22 min · Serves 1

Golden chicken thighs in a rich tomato, capsicum and olive cacciatore sauce with crispy cavolo nero and potato gnocchi on an oval plate

Meat

Chicken Cacciatore with Crispy Cavolo Nero

1 hr 45 min · Serves 4

Unmoulded chocolate bonet custard with caramel, crushed amaretti biscuits and orange segments in a speckled bowl

Desserts

Bonet Piemontese (Chocolate Amaretto Custard)

1 hr 10 min · Serves 6

Paccheri pasta with shredded wild boar ragù and a parsley and black olive gremolata in a speckled bowl

Pasta & Risotto

Wild Boar Ragù with Paccheri and Olive Gremolata

3 hr 40 min · Serves 6

Seared sardine fillets arranged in a star over sweet-and-sour fennel saor with golden raisins and pine nuts on a blue plate

Starters

Sardines in Saor with Fennel, Raisins and Pine Nuts

1 hr 5 min · Serves 4

Tube pasta in slow-cooked tomato sugo topped with torn stracciatella, basil leaves and olive oil on a pink plate

Pasta & Risotto

Penne Napoletana with Stracciatella and Basil

3 hr 20 min · Serves 2

Poached calamari salad with roasted red peppers, cucumber, green olives, frisée and chives in a pale green bowl

Starters

Calamari Salad with Roasted Peppers, Green Olives and Chives

30 min · Serves 4

Charred octopus tentacles over garlic skordalia with dots of aioli and crispy potato on a blue ceramic plate

Starters

Octopus with Red Wine Sauce and Skordalia

2 hrs · Serves 4

Smooth pink chicken liver parfait with a pool of clarified butter, toasted baguette, cornichons and quince ketchup on a white plate

Starters

Chicken Liver Parfait with Quince Ketchup

1 hr 40 min · Serves 8

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Pasta & Risotto

Potato and Ricotta Gnocchi

2 hrs · Serves 4

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Desserts

Tiramisu with Marsala Zabaglione

50 min · Serves 8

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Bread & Basics

Rosemary and Sea Salt Focaccia

50 min · Serves 10