Top 40 autumn recipes: Our most popular recipes for the cooler season
- The best autumn recipes to make in 2026
- What does it take to make the best hot cross buns?
- Fragrant chicken noodle soup with ginger and turmeric
- Flour and Stone’s chocolate Manjari cake
- Sri Lankan fish curry
- Black Star Pastry’s strawberry and watermelon cake
- Caribbean coconut broth with prawns and fried aromatics
- A classic Anzac biscuit recipe
- Dark chocolate, pear and pistachio cake
- Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with rosemary pesto
- Beef taco rice
- Pea and ham soup recipe
- Crunchy chilli and lemon potatoes topped with goat’s cheese
- Culurgiones (stuffed pasta dumplings) from Pilloni
- Ultimate fish sandwich
- How to make tsoureki (Easter bread)
- Spiced yoghurt chicken with cardamom-coconut pilaf
- Sean Moran’s linguine with shredded rocket, lemon, chilli and parmesan
- Eton mess
- Harissa chicken with carrot, rice and quinoa pilaf
- Our best bread and butter pudding recipe
- Cider-braised chicken with Brussels sprouts, apple and hazelnuts
- Kylie Kwong’s beef with black bean and chilli sauce
- Christian Ryan’s fennel, honey and ouzo baba with peaches and cream
Autumn has well and truly set in and with it, the need for warming recipes built around comfort. Think all manner of soups, curries and stews. It’s the season of cosy cooking, and lucky for you, we have plenty of popular autumn recipes up our sleeves.
From soul-warming chicken noodle soups to hearty rendang curries and ham hock soups.
And of course, who could forget about baking? That delicious activity that takes centre stage as the temperature drops and we spend more time indoors. Our collection of the top 40 autumn recipes is studded with desserts, including a Flour and Stone signature chocolate cake, Black Star’s cult-favourite watermelon cake and Anzac biscuits. This time of the year is also dedicated to hot cross buns — whether you’re baking them or on the hunt for the perfect one in your city.
It’s time to push up those sweater sleeves and get cooking. Here are our most popular autumn recipes this year.
The best autumn recipes to make in 2026

Best hot cross buns recipe - Seven hot cross buns with glazed tops and sticky fruit filling.
What does it take to make the best hot cross buns?

Bowl filled with our best chicken noodle soup recipe topped with fried shallots and coriander leaves
Fragrant chicken noodle soup with ginger and turmeric
Turmeric, ginger, chilli and broth — this chicken noodle soup is just what the doctor ordered.

Chocolate cake
Flour and Stone’s chocolate Manjari cake

Sri Lankan fish curry
Sri Lankan fish curry

Black Star Pastry strawberry watermelon cake in slices.
Black Star Pastry’s strawberry and watermelon cake

Ham hock soup

Caribbean coconut broth with prawns and fried aromatics
Caribbean coconut broth with prawns and fried aromatics

ANZAC biscuits
A classic Anzac biscuit recipe

Dark chocolate, pear and pistachio cake
Dark chocolate, pear and pistachio cake

Persian love cake

mild chicken curry recipe

A two-layer carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, topped with walnuts, on a wooden cake stand. A thick triangle slice of carrot cake is in the foreground, on the left.

Over-the-top shot of a round white dish with a baked lemon pudding, with a spoonful taken out of the crust to reveal the molten lemon curd inside.

Roast chicken with pancetta and brussels sprouts

slow-cooked lamb with rosemary pesto in baking dish.
Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with rosemary pesto

Beef taco rice
Beef taco rice

Pea and ham soup
Pea and ham soup recipe
The appeal of this classic soup recipe with humble origins is nothing new – and with these robust flavours, it’s little wonder.

Lemon dream

Crunchy chilli and lemon potatoes with goat's cheese
Crunchy chilli and lemon potatoes topped with goat’s cheese

Bowl of culurgiones on a bed of passata garnished with basil on wood background. Bowl of pecorino to the side.
Culurgiones (stuffed pasta dumplings) from Pilloni

Flourless fig leaf and pistachio cake with rose and raspberries

Eggplant parmigiana involtini recipe in a baking dish

Fish sandwich recipe
Ultimate fish sandwich

Spaghetti with charred corn, miso-pepper butter and mint

Greek Easter bread (Tsoureki)
How to make tsoureki (Easter bread)

Close-up of a plate of roast chicken thighs on a bed of yellow pilaf, garnished with coriander leaves and lime wedges.
Spiced yoghurt chicken with cardamom-coconut pilaf

Ginger-carrot cake with salted butterscotch frosting

Baked pasta

Twelve-hour Indian-spiced lamb shoulder with saffron pilaf

David Chang’s guide to making kimchi

Linguine with lemon chilli and parmesan on white and blue serving platter.
Sean Moran’s linguine with shredded rocket, lemon, chilli and parmesan

Eton Mess
Eton mess

Lamb scottadito with mint salsa verde and roast crushed potatoes

Simon Gloftis’ avgolemono: how to make it, and its significance in his family
Simon Gloftis’ avgolemono: how to make it, and its significance in his family

Harissa chicken with carrot, rice and quinoa pilaf recipe
Harissa chicken with carrot, rice and quinoa pilaf

Classic bread and butter pudding, served with a cup of tea for traditional British comfort.
Our best bread and butter pudding recipe

Cider-braised chicken recipe with Brussels sprout and apple salad in white dish.
Cider-braised chicken with Brussels sprouts, apple and hazelnuts

Beef with black bean and chilli sauce
Kylie Kwong’s beef with black bean and chilli sauce

Pumpkin ravioli with sage

Fennel, honey and ouzo baba with peaches and cream



