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.
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23 picks matching your filters
Clear filters- Australia's Best RecipesRecipeVegetable casserole
Dinner · Modern Australian
A plain, cheap, oven-baked vegetable casserole — the sort of dish that quietly gets vegetables eaten.
VegetarianImprove gut health - BBC Good FoodRecipeBroccoli salad
Side
Raw broccoli, toasted seeds and a sharp dressing — a side that adds fibre rather than just bulk.
VeganVegetarianDairy-freeImprove gut health - BBC Good FoodRecipeVegetarian cottage pie
Dinner · Modern Australian
Lentils and vegetables under a mash lid — high in fibre, and better the next day.
VegetarianImprove gut health - BBC Good FoodRecipeVegetarian enchiladas
Dinner · Mexican
Bean-filled enchiladas baked in a baking dish — cheap, filling and good for batch cooking.
VegetarianImprove gut health - Eat for HealthRecipeVegie curry
Dinner · Indian
A simple vegetable curry from the dietary guidelines — a good base to add lentils or chickpeas to.
VegetarianMaintain weightImprove gut health - Eat for HealthRecipeChickpea and couscous salad
Lunch
Legumes, wholegrain couscous and vegetables — a packed-lunch salad with real staying power.
VegetarianImprove gut healthLose weight - Eat for HealthRecipeVegie lentil soup
Lunch
A guideline-friendly lentil and vegetable soup that makes a big pot for the week.
VegetarianVeganDairy-freeImprove gut healthLose weight - EpicuriousRecipeQuick Chana Masala
Dinner · Indian
A weeknight chickpea curry on the table in under an hour — high in fibre and cheap to cook.
VegetarianVeganGluten-freeDairy-freeLose weightImprove gut healthLower blood pressure - EpicuriousRecipeCauliflower Puttanesca
Dinner · Italian
The puttanesca sauce goes over roasted cauliflower instead of pasta — a lighter plate with the same punch.
VegetarianVeganGluten-freeDairy-freeLose weightImprove gut health - EpicuriousRecipeCromlet 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.
VegetarianGluten-freeImprove gut healthMaintain weight - EpicuriousRecipeGrain 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.
Gain muscleImprove gut health - Gourmet TravellerRecipeBorlotti bean and mushroom boscaiola with lemon butter
Dinner · Italian
A vegetarian take on the boscaiola, with creamy borlotti beans standing in for the bacon.
VegetarianImprove gut health - Jamie OliverRecipeTomato & feta lentils
Lunch · Mediterranean
Lentils with tomatoes and feta in 20 minutes — the store-cupboard lunch we cook most often.
VegetarianImprove gut healthMaintain weight - Jamie OliverRecipeBread & 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.
VegetarianDairy-freeImprove gut healthLose weight - SBS FoodRecipeChickpea and spinach curry
Dinner · Indian
A 40-minute one-pot built on tomatoes, chickpeas and spinach — plenty of fibre for very little effort.
VegetarianVeganDairy-freeImprove gut healthLose weight - SBS FoodRecipeButter chickpeas
Dinner · Indian
The creamy curry-night favourite made with chickpeas instead of chicken. Serve with rice and a pile of greens.
VegetarianImprove gut health - SBS FoodRecipeAmritsari chana masala
Dinner · Indian
A dry-style chickpea masala from the Punjab — big on spice, low on salt if you cook your own chickpeas.
VegetarianVeganDairy-freeImprove gut healthLower blood pressure - TasteRecipeLentil 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.
VeganVegetarianDairy-freeImprove gut healthLose weight - TasteRecipeLamb with lentil salad
Dinner · Modern Australian
Twenty-five minutes and high in both protein and fibre — a good one for strength-training days.
Gluten-freeGain muscleImprove gut health - TasteRecipeMarinated Dijon rice salad
Lunch · Modern Australian
Wholegrain brown rice with lentils and beans — plant protein and fibre in a make-ahead bowl.
VegetarianDairy-freeImprove gut healthMaintain weight - TasteCollectionHigh fibre recipes
All-rounder
Legume-heavy salads and bowls to build your fibre up gradually across the week.
VegetarianImprove gut health - delicious.RecipeSpiced 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.
VeganVegetarianDairy-freeImprove gut healthMaintain weight - delicious.CollectionVegetable recipe collection
Side
delicious. by vegetable — chard with chickpeas, eggplant, kale, tomato — for building out the veg half of the plate.
VegetarianMaintain weightImprove gut health
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