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Julia Busuttil Nishimura

Julia Busuttil Nishimura

Julia Busuttil Nishimura

Julia Busuttil Nishimura is a Melbourne-based cookbook author, Good Weekend columnist and host of Good Food Kitchen.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and coconut sheet cake.
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Lime and triple coconut sheet cake

This tropical traybake will brighten the dreariest winter’s day.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s froga tat tarja (Maltese spaghetti frittata).
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Froga tat-tarja (Maltese spaghetti frittata)

A humble recipe with just a handful of ingredients, this thrifty frittata is one of my childhood favourites.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Crepes with hazelnut chocolate spread and bananas.
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Crepes with bananas and home-made hazelnut chocolate spread

Julia Busuttil Nishimura tops the weekend brunch favourite with velvety choc-nut spread and fresh fruit.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s white bean, cavalo nero and parmesan soup.
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White bean, cavolo nero and parmesan soup

Keep a stash of cheese rinds in the freezer ready to add flavour to this simple Italian soup.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
The optional addition of browned butter and sage results in a nutty flavour.

Roast pumpkin orzo ‘risotto’ with brown butter and sage

A creamy roast-pumpkin pasta that’s cooked like a risotto.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Marinated minute steaks with sesame daikon salad and steamed rice.
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Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s speedy Japanese-style steak dinner with daikon and rice

Marinated minute steak served with steamed rice and a quick salad makes for a pretty easy weeknight meal.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Cilbir with Ramazan pidesi (Turkish eggs with flatbread).

‘One of my all-time favourites’: Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s punchy Turkish-style brunch

Treat Mum to cilbir – poached eggs on a bed of garlic yoghurt smothered with chilli-infused melted butter – this Sunday.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Turkish-style flatbread.

Ramazan pidesi (Turkish-style flatbread)

This Turkish bread is perfect for dipping into cilbir for a punchy brunch.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Top with pine nuts and serve with crusty bread.
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This might be your new go-to roast chicken recipe for the Sunday lunching season ahead

Grapes are really wonderful roasted in the oven – especially in the company of chicken, sage and garlic.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Spiced apple cake with mascarpone and maple frosting

This warming, spiced apple cake is one you’ll return to again and again.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura