Great recipes from kitchens we trust

Hand-picked recipes and collections from the sites Australian home cooks actually use — Taste, RecipeTin Eats, SBS Food, delicious., BBC Good Food, Jamie Oliver — plus dietitian-backed picks from the Heart Foundation and Eat for Health. Filter by diet or health goal, then cook it at the source; we link straight to the original page.

• Australia's Best RecipesCollection
  Vegan recipes

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  Reader-tested vegan cooking, including slow-cooker favourites for the days you want dinner handled.

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• Australia's Best RecipesCollection
  52 easy vegetarian recipes

  Dinner

  Pumpkin soup, zucchini slice, mushroom bolognaise — the weeknight meat-free basics.

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• Australia's Best RecipesCollection
  54 of the best gluten-free recipes

  All-rounder

  A community-tested gluten-free list, heavy on the baking and family dinners.

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• Australia's Best RecipesRecipe
  Vegetable casserole

  Dinner · Modern Australian

  A plain, cheap, oven-baked vegetable casserole — the sort of dish that quietly gets vegetables eaten.

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• BBC Good FoodRecipe
  Broccoli salad

  Side

  Raw broccoli, toasted seeds and a sharp dressing — a side that adds fibre rather than just bulk.

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• BBC Good FoodCollection
  Vegetarian dinner recipes

  Dinner

  149 triple-tested vegetarian dinners — chilli, curry, pasta bake, stew. The best-tested vegetarian library online.

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• BBC Good FoodCollection
  Healthy vegetarian dinner recipes

  Dinner

  The lighter end of the vegetarian shelf, with calorie and salt counts given per serving.

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• BBC Good FoodCollection
  Easy vegan recipes

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  Curries, traybakes, salads and bakes — every one labelled with time, difficulty and diet.

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• BBC Good FoodCollection
  Dairy-free recipes

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  Dairy-free dinners and puddings, including vegan chocolate cake for the occasions that need one.

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• BBC Good FoodCollection
  Low-salt dinner recipes

  Dinner

  Every recipe here is capped at 0.5 g salt per serving — the most useful low-salt dinner list we have found.

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• BBC Good FoodCollection
  Gluten and dairy-free recipes

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  83 recipes that avoid gluten and dairy together, breakfast through dinner.

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• BBC Good FoodCollection
  High-protein vegetarian meal plan

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  A week of vegetarian eating built to hit a protein target — useful if you train and don't eat meat.

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• BBC Good FoodRecipe
  Vegetarian lasagne

  Dinner · Italian

  The crowd-pleaser: roasted vegetables layered with tomato and cheese. Freezes well in portions.

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• BBC Good FoodRecipe
  Vegetarian cottage pie

  Dinner · Modern Australian

  Lentils and vegetables under a mash lid — high in fibre, and better the next day.

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• BBC Good FoodRecipe
  Vegetarian enchiladas

  Dinner · Mexican

  Bean-filled enchiladas baked in a baking dish — cheap, filling and good for batch cooking.

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• BBC Good FoodRecipe
  Vegetarian stir-fry with broccoli & brown rice

  Dinner

  Twenty minutes, wholegrain rice, plenty of protein — a template you can swap the vegetables into.

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• Eat for HealthCollection
  Healthy recipes

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  Recipes from the Australian Dietary Guidelines themselves — the reference point our chef menus are checked against.

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• Eat for HealthCollection
  Simple vegetarian recipes

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  Plain, budget-friendly vegetarian meals sized to the AGHE serve recommendations.

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• Eat for HealthRecipe
  Vegie curry

  Dinner · Indian

  A simple vegetable curry from the dietary guidelines — a good base to add lentils or chickpeas to.

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• Eat for HealthRecipe
  Chickpea and couscous salad

  Lunch

  Legumes, wholegrain couscous and vegetables — a packed-lunch salad with real staying power.

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• Eat for HealthRecipe
  Tuna and avocado salad

  Lunch

  Five minutes, no cooking — oily fish and avocado for a pescatarian lunch that holds you to dinner.

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• Eat for HealthRecipe
  Vegie lentil soup

  Lunch

  A guideline-friendly lentil and vegetable soup that makes a big pot for the week.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Mexican-Style Spicy Sweet Potato and Chicken Bowl

  Dinner · Mexican

  A one-pot bowl of sweet potato, chicken and spice — batch it and you have lunches too.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Quick Chana Masala

  Dinner · Indian

  A weeknight chickpea curry on the table in under an hour — high in fibre and cheap to cook.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Cauliflower Puttanesca

  Dinner · Italian

  The puttanesca sauce goes over roasted cauliflower instead of pasta — a lighter plate with the same punch.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Fish Packets With Snap Peas, Tomatoes, and Herb Butter

  Dinner · Mediterranean

  Fish and greens steam in their own parcel — barely any oil, and nothing to wash up.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Cromlet With Wilted Greens and Fennel and Olive Salad

  Breakfast · Mediterranean

  A savoury cross between a crepe and an omelette, with a fennel salad on the side — one pan, one breakfast.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Grain Bowls With Chicken, Spiced Chickpeas, and Avocado

  Lunch · Middle Eastern

  Protein and fibre in the same bowl — good for a training day, and it packs well for lunch.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Simple Chicken Soup — Easy But Healthy

  Lunch · Modern Australian

  A light broth with chicken and vegetables in about twenty minutes — a good reset after a heavy weekend.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Sausage and Greens Sheet-Pan Dinner

  Dinner · Modern Australian

  One tray, crispy potatoes and plenty of greens — a crowd-pleaser when the family eats together.

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• EpicuriousRecipe
  Quick Baked Chicken Parmesan

  Dinner · Italian

  A lighter, faster chicken parm — baked rather than fried, and still a proper dinner.

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• Gourmet TravellerRecipe
  Borlotti bean and mushroom boscaiola with lemon butter

  Dinner · Italian

  A vegetarian take on the boscaiola, with creamy borlotti beans standing in for the bacon.

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• Gourmet TravellerRecipe
  Harissa-roasted cauliflower with preserved lemon dressing

  Side · Middle Eastern

  Zingy, spicy and cheap — the cauliflower side that quietly outshines whatever it's sitting next to.

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• Gourmet TravellerRecipe
  Smoked beetroot galette

  Lunch · Modern Australian

  A free-form tart for a long lunch — serve it with a sharp green salad rather than on its own.

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• Gourmet TravellerRecipe
  Palak paneer filo pie

  Dinner · Indian

  Spinach and paneer wrapped in filo — a protein-forward vegetarian centrepiece for a shared table.

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• Gourmet TravellerRecipe
  Fennel and leek pie (marathopita)

  Dinner · Mediterranean

  A Cretan herb pie from the chefs' recipe archive — greens by the handful in a thin pastry.

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• Gourmet TravellerCollection
  Hearty vegetarian dishes that'll satisfy everyone

  Dinner

  Gourmet Traveller's own shortlist of meat-free dishes that don't feel like a compromise.

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• Heart FoundationRecipe
  Crispy no-fold dumplings

  Dinner · Japanese

  Pan-fried dumplings with plenty of vegetables and a lower-salt dipping sauce — takeaway flavour, home numbers.

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• Heart FoundationRecipe
  Chilli and garlic prawn spaghetti

  Dinner · Italian

  Ten minutes of prep, prawns and chilli — a fast pescatarian dinner with the salt kept in check.

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• Heart FoundationCollection
  Heart healthy recipes

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  Recipes built to the Heart Foundation's heart-healthy eating pattern — the Australian benchmark for lower salt and saturated fat.

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• Jamie OliverRecipe
  Tomato & feta lentils

  Lunch · Mediterranean

  Lentils with tomatoes and feta in 20 minutes — the store-cupboard lunch we cook most often.

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• Jamie OliverRecipe
  Bread & borlotti bean soup

  Lunch · Italian

  A 20-minute Tuscan bean soup that turns stale bread into lunch — fibre and plant protein for very little money.

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• Jamie OliverCollection
  Vegetarian recipes

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  Big-flavour meat-free cooking, mostly on the table inside 20 minutes.

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• RecipeTin EatsCollection
  Gluten free recipes

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  Over 200 gluten-free recipes with notes on which sauces and stocks to check at the shop.

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• RecipeTin EatsCollection
  Vegetarian recipes

  Dinner

  Hearty meat-free dinners with the reliable quantities that made RecipeTin Eats the biggest food blog in the country.

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• RecipeTin EatsCollection
  Vegan recipes

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  Nagi's vegan shelf: red lentil soup, Afghan chickpea curry, salt and pepper tofu, falafel.

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• SBS FoodRecipe
  Chickpea and spinach curry

  Dinner · Indian

  A 40-minute one-pot built on tomatoes, chickpeas and spinach — plenty of fibre for very little effort.

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• SBS FoodRecipe
  Butter chickpeas

  Dinner · Indian

  The creamy curry-night favourite made with chickpeas instead of chicken. Serve with rice and a pile of greens.

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• SBS FoodRecipe
  Amritsari chana masala

  Dinner · Indian

  A dry-style chickpea masala from the Punjab — big on spice, low on salt if you cook your own chickpeas.

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• SBS FoodRecipe
  Lillipad's salad

  Lunch · Modern Australian

  Roasted cauliflower and chickpeas with turmeric and paprika — the sort of salad that actually fills you up.

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• SBS FoodCollection
  16 OMG meals for the part-time vegetarian

  Dinner

  A whole week of meat-free dinners for households that aren't ready to go fully vegetarian.

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• SBS FoodCollection
  33 fresh salad recipes that say hello, sunshine

  Lunch

  Thirty-three salads from across the SBS kitchen — a good place to find your new lunch staple.

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• TasteCollection
  Gluten and dairy free recipes

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  For households avoiding both at once — the trickiest combination to cook for, solved.

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• TasteCollection
  Dairy-free recipes

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  Lactose-free dinners and desserts that don't lean on coconut cream for everything.

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• TasteCollection
  Low-fat recipes

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  Flavour without the fat load — useful when energy intake is the thing you're working on.

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• TasteCollection
  Gluten-free recipes

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  Coeliac-friendly versions of the standards: schnitzel, pizza base, salads and bakes.

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• TasteRecipe
  Lentil and green bean salad

  Lunch · Modern Australian

  Brown lentils, green beans and a ginger dressing — keeps for days in the fridge as a work lunch.

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• TasteRecipe
  Lamb with lentil salad

  Dinner · Modern Australian

  Twenty-five minutes and high in both protein and fibre — a good one for strength-training days.

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• TasteRecipe
  Marinated Dijon rice salad

  Lunch · Modern Australian

  Wholegrain brown rice with lentils and beans — plant protein and fibre in a make-ahead bowl.

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• TasteCollection
  Salmon recipes

  Dinner

  Baked, pan-fried and tray-baked salmon — the easiest oily fish to cook well on a weeknight.

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• TasteCollection
  Pescatarian recipes

  Dinner

  Seafood-led dinners: barramundi with coconut spinach, prawn gnocchi, baked salmon.

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• TasteCollection
  Vegetarian recipes

  Dinner

  Casseroles, lasagne and tarts — the meat-free dinners Australian families actually cook.

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• TasteCollection
  Vegan recipes

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  The full vegan collection, sweet and savoury — useful when you are feeding a mixed table.

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• TasteCollection
  Vegan dinner recipes

  Dinner

  Taste's vegan dinner shelf — the ones that read like a proper meal rather than a side dish.

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• TasteCollection
  Healthy recipes for two

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  Sized for two people so nothing goes to waste — most are on the table inside 45 minutes.

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• TasteCollection
  150+ of Australia's best healthy dinner recipes

  Dinner

  The big Taste shortlist of healthier weeknight dinners, with quicker versions of the classics.

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• TasteCollection
  Healthy vegetarian dinner recipes

  Dinner

  Protein-rich pastas, curries and tray bakes for meat-free nights that still satisfy.

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• TasteCollection
  High fibre recipes

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  Legume-heavy salads and bowls to build your fibre up gradually across the week.

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• delicious.Recipe
  Spiced sweet potato and chickpea curry with paratha

  Dinner · Indian

  Alice Zaslavsky's sweet potato and chickpea curry — vegan as written if you use coconut yoghurt, and a good one to batch cook.

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• delicious.Recipe
  Tuna mornay with salt and vinegar chippie scales

  Dinner · Modern Australian

  Alice Zaslavsky's tuna mornay with a crunchy potato-top finish — the retro comfort dish, made with tinned fish.

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• delicious.Collection
  30 recipes you have to cook this November

  All-rounder

  delicious.'s monthly shortlist — seasonal fruit and vegetables, with the lighter dinners easy to spot.

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• delicious.Collection
  Vegetable recipe collection

  Side

  delicious. by vegetable — chard with chickpeas, eggplant, kale, tomato — for building out the veg half of the plate.

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