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Healthy lunch recipes
With busy lives, fitting in a healthy lunch can feel tricky. Let us help with delicious, nutritious recipe ideas. From vibrant vegan salad recipes to light yet warming soups. You can shop the ingredients straight from the recipe too, making it even easier.
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Sticky aubergine buns
Peppered steak, charred radish & new potato salad
Summer chicken chilli
Trout & new potato salad with cucumber yogurt dressing
Gingered noodle omelettes with garlic & chilli sauce
Prawn, avocado & grapefruit with quinoa
Spiced black bean & charred corn chilli
Larb-style pork
King prawn & cherry tomato salad traybake
Smoky black bean, sweet potato & tempeh burgers with chipotle ketchup
Burst cherry tomato gnocchi
Chilled avocado soup with pumpkin seed salsa
Sticky pomegranate lamb kebabs with pitta salad
Poached chicken breast in a summer vegetable & butter bean broth
Potato flatbreads with smoked mackerel & jammy eggs
Korean-style pancakes with cabbage slaw
Creamy one-pan crab orzo
Crispy beef & broccoli noodles
Crab rarebit-stuffed baked potatoes
Sardine bucatini
Lentil, courgette & dill fritters
New potato bowl with rocket pesto, spring greens & feta fried eggs
Beetroot freekeh with spinach & dukkah-crusted tofu
Sweet chilli salmon, blush orange & black rice with sesame & soy
Egg biryani
Sticky miso carrots & smoked tofu
Buttery tomato chickpeas & orecchiette
Use-it-up vegetable soup
Winter slaw sarnies
Seared tuna, soba & spinach salad
Pork & mushroom tantanmen
Traybake tikka & pepper chicken
Braised lentils & aubergines with pomegranate
Kale & quinoa risotto with feta and toasted hazelnuts
Rainbow tuna melt
Spiced cauliflower & coconut lentils
Kedgeree-style monkfish rice
Lentil pancakes & gunpowder potatoes with coconut, peanut and tamarind chutney
Roasted cauliflower & cashew soup with chaat masala croutons
The best minestrone soup
Chilli crab & sweetcorn noodles
Leek & celeriac cheesy pasta and bean bake
Parsnip & carrot masala omelette
Seeded avocado & meat-free bacon rice bowl
Creamy mushrooms & beans on toast
Roast beetroot, sweet potato & black garlic soup
Cherry tomato, butter bean & harissa soup
Chicory, raisin & pine nut salad
Masala beans
Kimchi jjigae (stew)
Smoked haddock pasta gratin
Borlotti beans with pancetta & tomatoes
Bean & broccoli hash with anchovy butter
Masala-spiced greens soup