Australia’s most loved home cook and bestselling author, Donna Hay, returns with THE FAST FIVE, taking the weeknight classics your family loves and re-imagining them into five super-fast, super-delicious recipes that will change your world!
Photography: Chris Court
Recipe and styling: Donna Hay
Ingredients:
- 800g chicken thigh fillets, trimmed and cut into pieces
- sea salt and cracked black pepper
- 400g haloumi, cut into cubes
- 2 lemons, halved and thinly sliced into rounds
- basil leaves, lemon wedges and olive and lemon brown rice salad (see recipe, next page), to serve
For lemon, garlic and rosemary marinade:
- ⅓ cup (16g) rosemary leaves, roughly chopped
- ⅓ cup (80ml) extra virgin olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp shredded lemon rind
Method:
- To make the lemon, garlic and rosemary marinade, combine the rosemary, oil, garlic, lemon juice and lemon rind in a large bowl.
- Add the chicken pieces, salt and pepper and mix to combine. Allow to marinate for 5 minutes.
- Preheat oven grill (broiler) to high. Line a large baking tray with non-stick baking paper.
- Thread the chicken, haloumi and lemon onto 8 metal skewers and place on the prepared tray. Grill for 13–15 minutes, or until golden and cooked through.
- Serve with basil leaves, lemon wedges and olive and lemon brown rice salad. Serves 4
TIP: To ensure everything cooks evenly, always use metal skewers.
Recipe extracted from The Fast Five by Donna Hay. Published by HarperCollins, RRP $55.
Australia’s most loved home cook and bestselling author, Donna Hay, returns with THE FAST FIVE, taking the weeknight classics your family loves and re-imagining them into five super-fast, super-delicious recipes that will change your world!
THE FAST FIVE transforms your weekly repertoire of recipes into flavour-forward crowd-pleasers. Bursting with over 145 recipes, golden schnitzels have more personality than ever, pantry pasta sings with delicious new twists, and weeknight staples like tacos and curry get simple switch-ups that change the game. You’ll also find my ready-in-a-flash desserts, sides that overdeliver on deliciousness, and super-tasty sauces, dips and toppers that take your creations from great to sensational.
“This is my ultimate collection of time-saving, upflavoured riffs on the absolute clasiscs; I’m sure they will become your new family favourites. Enjoy!”
Donna Hay