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Healthy recipes

Vegetable-forward cooking that earns its place on flavour, not virtue. 22 tested recipes, ranked by what readers cook most.

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Healthy recipes — all 22 recipes

Chicken Noodle Soup — american healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
American
Prep
15m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Chicken Noodle Soup

Built from a whole chicken so the broth carries real body, with the noodles cooked separately so they never turn to…

4.8(3,411)Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 3411 reviews 55 min · Easy
Horiatiki Greek Salad — greek healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Greek
Prep
15m
Cook
0m
Serves
4
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Horiatiki Greek Salad

A real horiatiki has no lettuce in it: just tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onion, olives and a slab of feta, dressed…

4.8(2,966)Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 2966 reviews 15 min · Easy
Overnight Oats — international healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
International
Prep
10m
Cook
0m
Serves
2
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Overnight Oats

Oats, milk, yogurt and chia soaked overnight into something thick and creamy, ready to eat straight from the jar…

4.7(2,955)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 2955 reviews 10 min · Easy
Provençal Ratatouille — french healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
French
Prep
25m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Provençal Ratatouille

The Provençal original, in which each vegetable is cooked separately before they are married — the only way to get…

4.7(2,288)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 2288 reviews 70 min · Easy
Creamy Tomato Soup — american healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
American
Prep
10m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Creamy Tomato Soup

Roasting the tomatoes first concentrates them into something far deeper than a stovetop soup, and a splash of cream…

4.7(2,288)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 2288 reviews 40 min · Easy
Tom Yum Goong — thai healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Thai
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Tom Yum Goong

The hot-and-sour prawn soup that defines Thai cooking: lemongrass, galangal and lime leaf simmered into a broth…

4.8(2,166)Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 2166 reviews 35 min · Easy
Chana Masala — indian healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Indian
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Chana Masala

A punchy North Indian chickpea curry, sour with amchur and tamarind and darkened by a long-fried onion base…

4.7(2,166)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 2166 reviews 45 min · Easy
Dal Tadka — indian healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Indian
Prep
10m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dal Tadka

Yellow lentils simmered soft, then finished with a tadka — whole spices bloomed in ghee and poured over at the last…

4.8(1,955)Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 1955 reviews 45 min · Easy
Andalusian Gazpacho — spanish healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Spanish
Prep
20m
Cook
0m
Serves
4
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Andalusian Gazpacho

A cold Andalusian soup of raw tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and bread blitzed with sherry vinegar and olive oil until…

4.7(1,877)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1877 reviews 20 min · Easy
Cobb Salad — american healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
American
Prep
25m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Cobb Salad

A composed salad from the Brown Derby in Hollywood: neat rows of chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato and blue…

4.7(1,866)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1866 reviews 40 min · Easy
Tom Kha Gai — thai healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Thai
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Tom Kha Gai

The gentler sibling of tom yum: coconut milk smooths the sourness into something creamy and fragrant, with chicken…

4.7(1,755)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1755 reviews 35 min · Easy
Miso Soup — japanese healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Japanese
Prep
5m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Miso Soup

The five-minute soup that anchors every Japanese meal: a clean dashi broth, silken tofu, wakame and miso whisked in…

4.6(1,780)Rated 4.6 out of 5 from 1780 reviews 15 min · Easy
Tabbouleh — middle eastern healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Middle Eastern
Prep
25m
Cook
0m
Serves
6
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Tabbouleh

A Lebanese tabbouleh is a parsley salad with a little bulgur in it, not the other way round. Chopped by hand…

4.7(1,688)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1688 reviews 25 min · Easy
Ukrainian Borscht — ukrainian healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Ukrainian
Prep
25m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Ukrainian Borscht

A deep crimson beetroot soup with a sour edge from vinegar and a sweetness from slow-cooked roots, finished with a…

4.7(1,533)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1533 reviews 85 min · Medium
Kimchi Jjigae — korean healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Korean
Prep
10m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Kimchi Jjigae

The best possible use for kimchi that has gone too sour to eat raw: simmered with pork belly and tofu into a…

4.7(1,466)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1466 reviews 35 min · Easy
Aloo Gobi — indian healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Indian
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Aloo Gobi

A dry curry of potato and cauliflower, roasted rather than stewed so the edges caramelise and the florets stay…

4.6(1,477)Rated 4.6 out of 5 from 1477 reviews 45 min · Easy
Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad) — thai healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Thai
Prep
20m
Cook
0m
Serves
4
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Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)

Green papaya pounded with garlic, chilli, lime, palm sugar and fish sauce in a clay mortar. Bruising rather than…

4.7(1,344)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1344 reviews 20 min · Easy
Minestrone Soup — italian healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Italian
Prep
20m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Minestrone Soup

A big, generous vegetable soup built on a slow soffritto and thickened by the beans themselves rather than cream…

4.6(1,290)Rated 4.6 out of 5 from 1290 reviews 60 min · Easy
Fattoush Salad — middle eastern healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Middle Eastern
Prep
20m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Fattoush Salad

The Levantine bread salad: crisp fried pita, cucumber, tomato, radish and herbs, dressed with sumac and pomegranate…

4.6(1,188)Rated 4.6 out of 5 from 1188 reviews 30 min · Easy
Greek
Prep
10m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Avgolemono Soup

A silky Greek chicken and rice soup thickened with an egg and lemon emulsion rather than cream. Sharp, restorative…

4.7(1,122)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1122 reviews 35 min · Easy
Egyptian Koshari — egyptian healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Egyptian
Prep
25m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Egyptian Koshari

Egypt's national street dish: layers of rice, lentils and pasta under a spiced tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and a…

4.7(1,122)Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 1122 reviews 70 min · Medium
Harira Soup — moroccan healthy recipe, served and ready to eat
Moroccan
Prep
20m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Harira Soup

The Moroccan soup traditionally eaten to break the fast during Ramadan: lentils, chickpeas and tomato thickened with…

4.6(966)Rated 4.6 out of 5 from 966 reviews 80 min · Easy