Sometimes you need a one-pot mid-week wonder. Sometimes you don’t. You wouldn’t file these recipes by some of the best chefs from Australia and the world under “quick and easy”, because boy, do they put your kitchen skills to the test.

Bistro Gitan’s twice-baked Roquefort soufflé with poached quince

Jacqui Challinor’s olive-oil ice-cream sandwich with halva and pistachio

Fish curry with cucumber salad and coriander chutney

Rockpool Bar & Grill’s passionfruit pavlova

Guy Grossi’s Lucanian sausages with crisp cavolo nero

Marco Pierre White’s strawberry shortbread

Victor Liong’s Sichuan sour and spicy poached fish with pickled mustard greens

Guillaume Brahimi’s salted caramel and chocolate ganache tart

Brent Savage’s coal-roasted eggplant with black garlic

Lauren Eldridge’s no-churn passionfruit ice-cream with lime sherbet and blackberries

Christina Tosi’s Cereal Milk panna cotta

Jaques Reymond’s délice soufflés of fromage blanc

Stephanie Alexander’s raspberry and rose-geranium sorbet with honey wafers, raspberries and cream

Rinaldo Di Stasio’s lasagne con aragosta

Victor Liong’s white-cut chicken, aromatic chilli oil and peanuts
