Healthy

• Recipe collection
• Meal prep

Winter is coming: 14 immune-boosting recipes to cook this week

These healthy recipes don’t sacrifice flavour, thanks to hits of chilli, ginger, garlic and turmeric; plus there’s plenty of vegies and vitamin C.

• Winter warmer

Danielle Alvarez’s pumpkin, pancetta, kale and barley soup-meets-stew

Somewhere between a soup and a stew, this dish is comforting and hearty without being heavy.

• 1-2 hrs
• Danielle Alvarez

• Quick & easy

Fry-day night at home: Adam Liaw’s pan-fried snapper with red lemon pepper butter

Snapper is an ideal fish for pan-frying but you could substitute flathead, John Dory or any other firm, white-fleshed fillets.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Budget

Spiced carrot and lentil soup

This soup is soul-restoring, simple, uses cupboard staples, is cheap and healthy. Winning on all fronts.

• < 30 mins
• Katrina Meynink

• Recipe collection
• Meal prep

Pump up the veg: 14 nourishing (but nice) recipes to cook this week

Because vegie-loaded dinners don’t have to be boring.

• Diet

Why you can enjoy cheese, chocolate and pasta - and still lose weight

From chocolate to carbs, experts believe that allowing yourself the occasional treat is much healthier than self-denial

• April 14, 2023
• Boudicca Fox-Leonard

• Recipe collection
• Salad

15 light and healthy dishes to cook this week

Overdone it on the Easter eggs? One too many butter-smothered hot cross buns? Get back on track with these colourful veg-packed recipes.

• Pasta dish

Roast cauliflower bolognese

I'm a fan of cauliflower bolognese. A groupie. I'd follow it around on tour and buy the shirt. Yes, the dish has strayed a long way from its origins but the flavour, texture and enjoyment are full and immediate. Everyone it was fed to, including other peoples' children, neighbours and my own intense critics, demolished it.

• 1-2 hrs
• Katrina Meynink

• Salad

Adam Liaw's American spinach salad

The classic American spinach salad includes bacon, boiled eggs and raw mushrooms, plus a warm dressing made from the rendered bacon fat.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Curry

Snapper sandwich with red curry, dill and ginger

Melbourne's Magic Mountain Saloon executive chef Karen Batson marries Thai flavours with a healthy, wholefood philosophy. The snapper sandwich with red curry, dill and gingerbased dish is based on a traditional dish from North-East Thailand (ngob pla). Here's an even simpler version you can make at home. You can use shop-bought curry paste (see note below) and grill or bake the fish in your oven.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Karen Batson