Healthy family meals
We know that cooking healthy family dinners is no easy task, especially after a tiring day or if you’ve got fussy eaters to feed. Our collection of healthy meals is family-friendly, while keeping budget in mind and the prep as quick and easy as possible.
Let us inspire you with our favourite fail-safe dinner ideas – all nutritious AND flavour-packed. Top picks include our air fryer salmon fillets with a speedy marinade, chicken curry traybake and colourful hoisin duck lettuce wraps.
Keep vegetarians happy (and up your veg intake) with a veggie shepherd’s pie complete with cheesy root veg mash. Plant-based cooks should try our vegan sausage casserole or siracha tofu rice bowl.
Looking for healthy summer dinners? Our chicken and veg traybake uses one roasting pan and is ready in around 35 minutes. Pesto pasta fans: swap the green stuff for our red pepper pesto pasta.
If you need supper on the table quick, check out all our easy meals in 30 minutes. Want to avoid lots of washing up? Our traybake and one pot meals are for you.
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Sandwiches
Calum Harris’ green and mean vegan sandos
Calum Harris' vegan sandos are piled high with greens, herbs and tempeh. A creamy tahini dressing helps bring this epic sando together.
Stews, casseroles, pot-roasts and slow-roasts
Thai-spiced fish stew
This aromatic Thai fish stew hits the spot on chilly nights. It's packed with prawns and white fish, plus fragrant lemongrass and tamarind.
Slow cook
Slow cooker chicken stew with walnuts and pomegranate
This aromatic chicken stew only needs 15 minutes prep before you pop it in the slow cooker. Garnish with pomegranate and parsley to serve.
Chicken soups
Slow cooker citrus chicken broth with tortillas and avocado
This zingy chicken broth is inspired by Mexico's sopa de lima. Let it simmer away in your slow cooker, then serve with tortillas and avocado.
Slow cook
Slow cooker squash, cannellini bean and pesto stew
This squash and bean stew is perfect for a cold day. Let the vegetarian stew simmer in the slow cooker, then add a swirl of pesto to serve.
Tomato pastas
Pasta pomodoro
Pasta pomodoro is the original – and best – tomato pasta. This recipe is quick and easy but uses a few tricks to really amp up the flavour.
Italian pastas
Classic pasta puttanesca
One of the most famous classic pasta dishes of all time, pasta puttanesca includes anchovies, garlic, capers, olives and tomatoes.
Chicken thighs
Chicken with capers, lemon, chillies and thyme
Give chicken thighs and drumsticks an Italian spin with a citrussy caper, lemon, chilli and thyme marinade. An easy midweek chicken dinner.
Sea bass
Sea bass with pistachios, pine nuts and sun-dried tomatoes
Top sea bass fillets with a pistachio and sun-dried tomato crumb, and serve with discs of golden potatoes in this healthy dinner recipe.
Tomatoes
Pomodori col riso (tomatoes stuffed with rice)
A classic Roman dish of tomatoes stuffed with anchovy,caper and garlic-flavoured rice, with roast potatoes underneath to catch the juices.
Italian vegetarian
Risi e bisi (classic Venetian rice and peas)
Ursula Ferrigno shares her recipe for risi e bisi. This classic Venetian dish of rice and the sweetest fresh peas is served in a rich stock.
Best of the best
Best-of-the-best ratatouille
Want to make perfect ratatouille? Follow our recipe for the ultimate French summer stew, packed with aubergine, tomato and courgettes.
Gnocchi
Caramelised fennel gnocchi
Slowly caramelising fennel in the same way you would onions renders it sweet and tender – an easy yet tasty topping for shop-bought gnocchi.
Healthy fish
No-waste spicy tomato fish stew
Soul-nourishing, spicy and tangy, this tomatoey fish stew uses all of the fish to bring depth of flavour, with the fillets added at the end.
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