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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17 picks matching your filters
Clear filters- BBC Good FoodCollectionHealthy vegetarian dinner recipes
Dinner
The lighter end of the vegetarian shelf, with calorie and salt counts given per serving.
VegetarianLose weightMaintain weight - BBC Good FoodRecipeVegetarian stir-fry with broccoli & brown rice
Dinner
Twenty minutes, wholegrain rice, plenty of protein — a template you can swap the vegetables into.
VegetarianGain muscleLose weight - 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 HealthRecipeTuna and avocado salad
Lunch
Five minutes, no cooking — oily fish and avocado for a pescatarian lunch that holds you to dinner.
PescatarianGluten-freeDairy-freeLose weightMaintain 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 - EpicuriousRecipeMexican-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.
Gluten-freeLose weightMaintain 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 - EpicuriousRecipeFish 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.
PescatarianGluten-freeLose weightLower blood pressure - EpicuriousRecipeSimple 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.
Gluten-freeLose weightMaintain 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 FoodRecipeLillipad's salad
Lunch · Modern Australian
Roasted cauliflower and chickpeas with turmeric and paprika — the sort of salad that actually fills you up.
VegetarianDairy-freeLose weightMaintain weight - SBS FoodCollection33 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.
VegetarianLose weight - TasteCollectionLow-fat recipes
All-rounder
Flavour without the fat load — useful when energy intake is the thing you're working on.
Lose weightLower 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 - TasteCollection150+ of Australia's best healthy dinner recipes
Dinner
The big Taste shortlist of healthier weeknight dinners, with quicker versions of the classics.
Lose weightMaintain weight
Recipes stay on the publications’ own sites — we curate and tag them, we don’t copy them. Tags are a guide to how a recipe is usually written; check the ingredient list on the original page against your own allergies and goals, and adjust portions to your plate.