Karen Martini
Food editor
Karen Martini is a Melbourne-based chef, restaurateur, author and television presenter. She has a regular column in Good Weekend.Connect via Twitter.
Karen Martini’s apple and cherry brown butter cake meets clafoutis pudding
This satisfying and comforting cake is reminiscent of the French pudding, and you can vary the recipe to bake it year-round.
- 2 hrs +
- Karen Martini
Karen Martini’s one-tray roasted tomato, red capsicum and chilli sauce for pasta
Roasting enhances and deepens the flavour, which you can’t replicate by cooking the ingredients in a pot.
- 1-2 hrs
- Karen Martini
Just add cold beer and serviettes: Karen Martini’s chicken wings are the perfect five-setter snack
Spice up a five-set blockbuster with these Japanese-inspired wings.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Karen Martini
Ceviche with buttermilk dressing and rhubarb, chilli and fennel pickle
The refreshing flavours are ideal for the hotter months, and it’s a perfect, and very pretty, starter.
- < 30 mins
- Karen Martini
Roasted potatoes with thyme and herbed fromage blanc
These showstopper spuds are the perfect side to so many main-course heroes.
- 1-2 hrs
- Karen Martini
Grilled Romano beans with braised lemon, garlic and dill
Long, flat beans tossed in a lemony dressing is a vegan-friendly side dish with staying power.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Karen Martini
Cauliflower fritters with Japanese-style curried egg sauce
This versatile sauce also works well in an egg and lettuce sandwich.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Karen Martini
Chicken and ricotta polpette (meatballs) with brown butter and crispy sage
This simple midweek meal elevates the humble meatball.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Karen Martini
Seed, date, walnut and maple breakfast loaf
This healthy, nutty bread makes a delicious grab-and-go breakfast.
- 1-2 hrs
- Karen Martini
Pollo agrodolce (aka sweet-and-sour meets peri-peri roast chicken)
This whole roast chicken is smothered in a lip-smacking peri-peri sauce mixed with a sweet-and-sour Sicilian agrodolce.
- 1-2 hrs
- Karen Martini