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14 easy, healthy dishes for summer, minimal cooking required

Hold on to that “Out of Office” energy with vibrant, easy meals that won’t keep you stuck in a hot kitchen.

14 recipes
Vietnamese chicken rice-paper rolls.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ chicken rice-paper rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Serve this lemongrass, ginger and makrut lime poached chicken on a platter for everyone to help themselves.

Katrina Meynink’s lemongrass, ginger and makrut lime poached chicken with rice noodles

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Andrew McConnell’s tomato salad, tofu and yuzu kosho.

Andrew McConnell’s tomato salad with silken tofu and yuzu kosho

  • Andrew McConnell
Salmon and lettuce miang.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s salmon and lettuce miang

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Chickpea and tuna ‘chaat’.
EASY

Rosheen Kaul’s chickpea and canned tuna ‘chaat’

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Consider making salad the main event for later dinners with Katrina Meynink’s Vietnamese tomato salad.

Katrina Meynink’s Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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Satay tempeh rice bowls with crunchy kimchi cucumbers.
EASY

Satay tempeh rice bowls with crunchy kimchi cucumbers

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Adam liaw’s prawn and glass noodle salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s prawn and glass noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Satay chicken salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s satay chicken salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Juicy marinated beef, crunchy vegetables and noodles make this salad a textural delight.
EASY

Sarah Pound’s Asian beef salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Mushroom larb.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s mushroom larb

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
This herb-strewn chicken and noodle salad is perfect in hot weather.
EASY

Rosheen Kaul’s ‘ghost chicken’ noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Pork, bean thread vermicelli and makrut lime patties with lettuce, peanuts and Thai dressing.

Karen Martini’s lettuce cups with pork and lime patties, peanuts and Thai dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Salad is a low-carb way to enjoy the ever-popular California roll.
EASY

Rosheen Kaul’s California roll salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul