Healthy dinner recipes
Want to cook more healthy dinner recipes but not sure where to start? You’ve come to the right place. With 70+ easy, healthy dinners to choose from, you’ll never be short of inspiration.
Trying to eat less meat? Take your pick from veg-packed curries, hearty plant-based stews, wholegrain dishes and colourful stir-fries. For those nights when only chicken, fish or beef will do, choose from traybakes, rice pilafs and Thai curries. There are lighter versions of family favourites too, including moussaka and fish pie.
All the recipes in this collection are under 500 calories per serving. Dig into something healthy and delicious tonight…
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Leek recipes
Charred leek, pearl barley and cheshire cheese salad
In this hearty salad, pearl barley and chunky strips of caramelised leek are coated in a cheesy buttermilk dressing – pure winter pleasure.
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November seasonal recipes
Roasted cauliflower, white bean, hazelnut and pomegranate salad
While the cauliflower roasts for this easy vegan salad, you just need to mix the creamy beans and pomegranate seeds with a simple dressing.
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Fish traybake recipes
Aniseed cod, potato and beetroot traybake
This easy cod, potato and beetroot traybake is a celebration of all things aniseed. A simple DIY spice blend is used on the fish and tomatoes.
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Noodle recipes
Mushroom stroganoff ramen
It's a delicious mash-up of two beloved dishes: Japanese ramen and Russian stroganoff. The perfect vegan comfort food for chilly nights.
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Batch cooking recipes
Masala baked beans with coriander chutney
Looking for a vegan batch cook recipe? Make and freeze these warming masala baked beans, then enjoy with rice, jacket potatoes or on toast.
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30-minute meal recipes
Brothy beans with pumpkin
Brothy beans are comfort in a bowl. This simple dinner showcases the sweet warmth of pumpkin, pairing it with creamy white beans.
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Easy vegan recipes
Houmous with ful medames, preserved lemon & tomato salsa
Ful medames is a creamy Egyptian fava bean stew with cumin and tahini. Paired with houmous, it makes the heartiest vegan meal.
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Favourite vegetarian recipes
Houmous with tomato and mango chutney-braised eggs
Use silky homemade houmous as the base for a vibrant vegetarian dinner. Top with eggs braised in a jammy tomato and mango-chutney sauce.
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Italian pasta recipes
Classic pasta puttanesca
One of the most famous classic pasta dishes of all time, pasta puttanesca includes anchovies, garlic, capers, olives and tomatoes.
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Sea bass recipes
Sea bass with pistachios, pine nuts and sun-dried tomatoes
Top sea bass fillets with a pistachio and sun-dried tomato crumb, and serve with discs of golden potatoes in this healthy dinner recipe.
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Tomato recipes
Pomodori col riso (tomatoes stuffed with rice)
A classic Roman dish of tomatoes stuffed with anchovy,caper and garlic-flavoured rice, with roast potatoes underneath to catch the juices.
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Healthy fish recipes
Vietnamese rice paper pizzas with eggs, spinach and sardines
Rice paper pizzas are a popular street food in Vietnam. Uyen Luu loads them with eggs, sardines and spinach and drizzles with garlic butter.
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Best of the best recipes
Best-of-the-best ratatouille
Want to make perfect ratatouille? Follow our recipe for the ultimate French summer stew, packed with aubergine, tomato and courgettes.
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Gnocchi recipes
Caramelised fennel gnocchi
Slowly caramelising fennel in the same way you would onions renders it sweet and tender – an easy yet tasty topping for shop-bought gnocchi.
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Healthy fish recipes
No-waste spicy tomato fish stew
Soul-nourishing, spicy and tangy, this tomatoey fish stew uses all of the fish to bring depth of flavour, with the fillets added at the end.
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Fennel recipes
Roast fennel quinoa salad with basil yogurt dressing
This fennel salad is packed with roasted summer vegetables and finished generously with a vibrant basil and lemon dressing.
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