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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• 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 FoodRecipe
  Vegetarian lasagne

  Dinner · Italian

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

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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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• 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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• 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
  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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• 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 OliverCollection
  Vegetarian recipes

  All-rounder

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

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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
  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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• 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
  Vegetarian recipes

  Dinner

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

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• TasteCollection
  Vegan recipes

  All-rounder

  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 vegetarian dinner recipes

  Dinner

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

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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.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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  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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