Adam Liaw’s baked chicken and tomato risotto.

14 affordable freezer-friendly dinners to cook this week

Whip up a batch of bulk dinners with plenty of leftovers ready to freeze with these family-friendly recipes perfect for feeding the whole table.

Home-made bone broth is inexpensive to make and nourishing to eat.

This pot of gold is one of the most nourishing things you can eat,plus it’s cheap and easy to make

A rich,long-simmered bone broth is the secret to these nourishing,big-flavoured dishes.

  • Rosheen Kaul
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s niku udon (beef udon noodle soup).

Niku udon (Japanese beef noodle soup)

The shiitake dashi base can be made from scratch,or use my shortcut if you’re tight on time.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Taco soup with all the toppings.

Mexican-inspired taco soup

Taco Tuesday meets Soup Night in this hearty Tex-Mex meal with all the toppings.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage,red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

This cheat’s pasta sauce will taste as if you’ve been working on it all day,with no slicing,dicing or chopping required.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
EASY

Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

Caramelising the sausage meat and coating it in sun-dried tomato pesto is a shortcut to deep flavour in no time.

  • <30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pasta with slow-roasted shallot,chorizo and garlic sauce.
EASY

Pasta with shallot,chorizo and tinned tomato sauce

Slow-roasted eschalots do ungodly decadent things to anything they lend their flavour to,such as this simple tomato sauce.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Serve these oven-baked meatballs with cheesy garlic bread.
EASY

Mouthwatering oven-baked meatballs in a rich tomato sauce

Serve these simply but lovingly made meatballs alongside cheesy garlic bread.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
EASY

Adam Liaw’s savoury mince

Savoury mince is a classic for a reason. You can get even more bang for your buck by going big on the vegetables.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Creamy cauliflower and potato soup topped with mini cheese toastie bites.

16 freezer-friendly soups and stews to cook (and stash away) this week

These hearty and comforting recipes all freeze like a dream,just skip the yoghurt or cream,fresh herbs and sprinklings before you put them on ice.