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18 recipes that use only 5 ingredients or less
It’s official – less is more. So join the growing food trend and make life easier, cheaper and better for the planet by making meals that use just a few ingredients. These recipes all use five ingredients or fewer.
Pancetta-wrapped sausages
You only need 4 ingredients to turn sausages into a star attraction.
Easy ciabatta
For those in a rush, try this foolproof ciabatta. Its the perfect bread recipe for bread-baking beginners - producing soft bread with a tasty crust, and you don't even have to knead it.
Caprese salad
This traditional Caprese salad shines in the simplicity of the ingredients.
Salt-baked mud crab
Bring a bit of theatre to your next dinner party with this recipe. Recipe by Ester chef Mat Lindsay.
Orange whisky marmalade glazed ham
It’s not just for Christmas Day! A glazed ham is the perfect solution for summer entertaining – and everyone will love it.
Matt Moran's incredibly easy three-ingredient Viennetta
Matt Moran reinvents the Viennetta and with only three ingredients. We're sold.
Four-ingredient chocolate cupcakes
These foolproof cupcakes are a quick and easy way to impress a crowd.
Strawberry crush ice cream
Light on ingredients but rich and creamy in flavour, this simple ice-cream recipe is taken from Stephanie Alexander's latest cookbook, "The Cook's Table and inspired by summer's spent eating at Sean's Panorama in Bondi Beach. This recipe is an extract from Stephanie Alexander's latest cookbook, The Cook's Table.
Four-ingredient mango and blackberry fro-yo
It's hard to believe you only need four ingredients to create something this good.
The ingenious 3-ingredient Easter egg brownie
Need an excuse to eat even more chocolate this Easter? Or just use up the leftover eggs laying around the house? Just add two pantry staples and this decadent chocolate brownie will be ready in no time.
Heston Blumenthal's magic one-ingredient mousse
He may be known for his mad scientist approach, but it turns out Heston Blumenthal is just as interested in simplicity as the rest of us.
The 3-ingredient white choc cheesecake that's an Easter essential
Part cheesecake, part decadent white chocolate cake, 100 per cent amazing.
This crazy-good dessert only has three ingredients
It sounds impossible, this delicious recipe results in a cakey loaf with a crunchy crust - Matt Preston
Banana and chocolate tarte tatin
Only 5 ingredients stand between you and this decadent sweet treat.