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Karen Martini Recipes
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Tv chef Karen Martini provides her best recipes and how to videos from the Better Homes and Gardens TV show and magazine. Melbourne chef, restaurateur and food writer Karen Martini has been cooking professionally for more than 20 years. She trained at top restaurant Tansy’s in the early 1990s and has headed restaurant kitchens including the iconic Melbourne Wine Room, white-hot Icebergs Dining Room in Sydney and her current artisan pizza restaurant Mr Wolf (which she runs with husband Michael Sapountsis), winning countless chefs hats and other plaudits along the way. Karen Martini's recipes show her love of relaxed cooking with fresh, healthy, seasonal ingredients.
recipeChocolate swirl with Frangelico, hazelnuts and honeycomb
Looking for the secret to blissful happiness? You’ll find it at the bottom of each pot of these magical little treats.
- Prepare time:
- 15 mins plus 20 mins cooling time and 40 mins chilling time
- Cooking time:
- 5mins
- Serves:
- 6
recipeCrunchy chocolate-filled biscuits
With deliciously soft choc centres, these cookies are seriously dunkable.
- Prepare time:
- 20 mins plus 45 mins cooling time
- Cooking time:
- 15 mins
- Makes:
- 20 filled biscuis
videoCooking with Karen: croisssant bread & butter pudding
Traditional bread and butter pudding is a favourite of the English, but this week Karen is going to forget tradition and make this dessert even better, with a little help from the French
recipeCrispy prawn spring rolls with Nuoc Cham sauce
High rollers in the finger-food world, these are best served wrapped in lettuce with herbs. Dip in the fiery sauce and… wow!
- Prepare time:
- 30 mins
- Cooking time:
- 15 mins
- Makes:
- 18-20
videoCooking with Karen: pan-seared blue-eye cod
Most of us are short on time when it comes to making dinner - well fresh fish is one of the fastest meals ever to prepare.
recipeMediterranean lamb in baked eggplant
The secret to the success of this Middle Eastern favourite is in the slow-cooking. It's worth the wait!
- Prepare time:
- 15 mins
- Cooking time:
- 50 mins
- Serves:
- 6-8
recipeThai-spiced chicken with coriander chilli stuffing and Asian greens
Do the funky chicken and make it a fresh and delicious Asian occasion to impress the hungry hordes.
- Prepare time:
- 20 mins
- Cooking time:
- 1 hour 20 mins
- Serves:
- 4
recipeFrench onion soup with grilled cheese baguette
Soup it up a notch and add chunks of melted cheesy bread – it’s a meal in itself.
- Prepare time:
- 10 mins
- Cooking time:
- 1½ hours
- Serves:
- 6-8
videoCooking with Karen: baked ricotta and feta cannelloni
Karen creates baked ricotta and feta cannelloni using fresh pasta sheets that you simply fill and roll – how clever and quick is that!
recipeEasy no-bake chocolate cheesecake
Bring a great big smile to Mum’s face with this luscious, chocolatey-everything delight. No cooking required!
- Prepare time:
- 20 mins plus 30 mins chilling time and 2 hours freezing time
- Cooking time:
- nil
- Serves:
- 6-8
videoCooking with Karen: lamb and eggplant curry
Throw away that takeaway menu. Karen’s got an authentic delicious Indian curry you can make at home in no time.
videoCooking with Karen: chocolate-filled biscuits
Winter’s the perfect time for a hot cup of tea and delicious biscuit, but why buy them when you can make your own chocolate-filled biscuits the whole family will love.
videoCooking with Karen: Chocolate swirl
Karen is going to whip up a creamy whipped pudding that has been around for centuries and for good reason - it's as light as a feather and absolutely delicious!
videoCooking with Karen: Crab and leek lasagne
There are few meals more comforting or delicious than homemade lasagne but this week Karen has a new modern twist on this classic dish.
videoMediterranean spiced lamb baked in eggplant
Karen Martini shares her grandmother's classic recipe.
recipeSpicy Moroccan beef skewers
A touch of harissa, and a handful of wonderful herbs and spices, transforms this simple dish into a masterpiece.
- Prepare time:
- 20 mins plus 4 hours marinating time
- Cooking time:
- 10 mins
- serves:
- 4
videoCooking with Karen: No-bake chocolate cheesecake
This is a perfect recipe to get the kids involved in the kitchen.
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