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Minestrone soup
Minestrone is a robust vegetable-based soup. The addition of beans and pasta makes it a complete meal in a bowl.
Creamy soup 101
Simple cream soups such as carrot or pumpkin are quick to make and you can work with what you have available to create your own flavour combinations.
Corn, bacon and sweet potato chowder
This chowder uses lite evaporated milk to create a creamy texture without actually adding cream, so it’s a relatively healthy version of a classic dish.
Butter chicken soup
This soup embraces the essence of butter chicken in terms of rich, sweet, spicy flavours without being really bad for you.
Kumara, coriander and lemongrass soup
This soup is mildly spicy with the aromatic zing of fresh lemongrass and a gorgeous velvety texture.
Thai beef salad
This dish needs almost no cooking – just a quick searing of the beef – the rest is assembly.
Prawn and crab parcels
Asian rice paper makes a great no-cook wrapper for this tasty salad. If you buy cooked prawns, this dish is purely assembly.
Healthy green fish curry
Curries like this are brilliant for quick weeknight dinners, and you can use any type of meat or tofu.
Laab chicken
This is my version of a dish I was taught by chef Amnart Ardkhao at the Treetops Arasia resort in Phuket.
Oven-baked vegetable frittata
What a great way to use up vegetables. Delicious as a vegetarian choice and popular with meat eaters too, with or without bacon.
Gluten-free chocolate cake
This is fantastic and the icing makes it taste unbelievably naughty and a little like a black forest gateau.
Spicy beef stir-fry
Stir-fries can use any variety of meat and vegetables, so don't hesitate to use whatever veges are in season or use what you have in your freezer.
Ginger and lemon chicken
Ginger adds wonderful flavour to stir-fries, and is particularly good with chicken.
Zesty couscous or quinoa salad with roasted pumpkin and cashews
Couscous and quinoa can be used as the base for salads or as side dishes. They are good alternative carbohydrates when you're looking for a change from potato, rice or pasta.
Ginger pork and tofu
Tofu doesn't have to be bland and boring. Combine it with tasty meat and ginger for a healthy combination.
