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Chicken, capsicum and basil tray bake captures the flavours of summer.

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25 bright and healthy recipes to cook this week

Ready to eat like it’s spring? This collection of 25 easy recipes is packed with vibrant, fresh meals to help you celebrate the new season.

25 recipes
EASY

Grilled steak and vermicelli salad with spicy dressing and smashed cucumbers

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Grilled chicken with buckwheat tabbouleh.

Grilled chicken with spring green tabbouleh and tarragon dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s Chicken, capsicum and basil tray bake.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s chicken, capsicum and basil tray bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
The lemony whipped feta works on its own as a dip, too.

Charred cauliflower salad with lemony whipped feta and pine nuts

  • < 30 mins
  • Hetty McKinnon
Adam Liaw's kari-kari chicken with spiced yoghurt.
EASY

Kari-kari chicken with spiced yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Mexican ceviche rice bowl.
EASY

Mexican ceviche rice bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Lentil and tuna salad with honey-mustard dressing.
EASY

Lentil and tuna salad with honey Dijon dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Keep them fresh: Adam Liaw's spring greens salad.

Spring green salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Zucchetti with grilled artichokes and rocket and mint.
EASY

Zucchetti with grilled artichokes and rocket and mint pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
15-minute chickpea pasta with harissa and yoghurt.
EASY

15-minute chickpea pasta with harissa and yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Smoked salmon and avocado salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s smoked salmon and avocado salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Think of this spring vegetable minestra as a cross between soup and risotto.

Spring vegetable minestra

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Cool salmon noodles for summer.
EASY

Salmon and avocado soba noodle bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s everything fritters.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s everything fritters

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Sichuan pepper roasted eggplant with crispy chilli tofu.
EASY

Sichuan pepper roasted eggplant with crispy chilli tofu

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
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Greek chicken and salad.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ Greek chicken salad

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Crispy XO pork omelette gets an umami boost from store-bought XO sauce.
EASY

Crispy XO pork omelette

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Nicoise pasta salad with seared tuna.
EASY

Nicoise pasta with seared tuna steak

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Valencian salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Valencian salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Cumin lamb skewers with quick chilli pickle and noodles.
EASY

Cumin lamb skewers with quick chilli pickle and noodles

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Sarah Pound’s fish dish can be ready in less than 30 minutes.
EASY

Mediterranean one-pan fish with cherry tomatoes, olives and cannellini beans

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Adam Liaw masterclass recipe: Vietnamese chicken salad.
EASY

Vietnamese chicken salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Rosheen Kaul’s “Hainanese chicken rice” greens bowl.
EASY

‘Hainanese chicken rice’ greens bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Teriyaki salmon bowls.
EASY

RecipeTin’s salmon rice bowls with DIY teriyaki dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
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You can toss through rocket or basil at the end, or add an egg to enrich the sauce.
EASY

Spaghetti al limone

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura