Better Homes and Gardens recipes from this week’s show

Keep it simple when guests come over with this BBQ lamb dish. Mint sauce, a potato salad and slices of juicy lamb are all you need on the table for a dinner filled with ‘oooohs and ahhhs’.

Let Clarissa warm you up with a bowl of the classic cold-weather food, chicken noodle soup.

For extra flavour, Clarissa’s adding fish balls, but you can go with any protein you prefer. In this cold weather, this soup is like a warm hug on the inside.

“So this recipe all started one day when I was cooking a chicken and I didn’t want to put the chicken straight on the roasting tray so I needed something to go under it to stop it burning. So I had some old, stale bread…” the rest? Is history.

This chicken, roasted on bread (flavoured with rosemary, tomato, garlic, butter and cherry tomatoes) recipe is so good. So good, in fact, that Colin refers to it as his third child, “I invented this baby.”

If you want to indulge in a light, summery dessert, try Clarissa’s coconut crepes (Kuih dadar). In this dish, she uses coconut milk to imbue the sweet with coconutty flavour.

They say it’s good to have at least one night a week meat-free, and Colin’s cauliflower cheese could just be the dish for the job.

You already know, without too much explanation, that Colin’s recipe is going to be easy to prepare and is sure to be packed with flavour and good old-fashioned yumminess. 

Not only are curry puffs a favourite snack in Malaysia, but they’re high on the snack list in Australia as well. And here’s the good news, you don’t have to buy them.

Clarissa has a traditional recipe, passed on from her parents, of crispy puff pastry, bursting with amazing aromas and flavours of India.

Family recipes passed from one generation to the next have one ingredient you can’t measure, love. Clarissa calypot chicken rice is one of her family’s favourites, passed on to her by her mum. It’s easy to prep, cook and it’s extremely delicious.

If you love ice cream and you love peanut butter, then Colin’s frozen Peanut Butter Block might just become your new favourite sweet treat.

Whether you cut it into pieces and serve on a stick or on a plate, the result will be the same; a delicious dessert!

A curry wouldn’t be a curry without spices, so making the tadka to flavour the whole dish is key.

With so many vegetables, cumin, seeds, mustard seeds, chillies, curry leaves and so much more, this recipe by Clarissa is packed full of vitamins to keep you healthy and won’t fail to tickle your tastebuds.

You’ll forget fast food after creating homemade chicken and chips with onion rings.

PS, cut your lettuce into wedges for a very cool look.

Chinese pan-fried Pork Dumplings or Potstickers, as they’re affectionately known, may have a less than flattering name, but they’re more than tasty!

Between the dumplings, the chilli based dipping sauce and the crispy lace cooked around the dumplings, Clarissa’s dish looks good enough to be served in a restaurant.

Colin’s such a fan of barbecuing, he’s found a solution to doing it on a rainy day: bring the barbie inside! Use a chargrill pan on high to imbue fresh squid with smoky flavours. Serve with a Spanish-inspired romesco sauce.