14 easy, healthy dishes for summer, minimal cooking required

Salmon and lettuce miang.

Recipe collection

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

14 recipes

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Vietnamese chicken rice-paper rolls.

EASY

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The SOS Series

RecipeTin Eats’ chicken rice-paper rolls

< 30 mins
RecipeTin Eats

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Serve this lemongrass, ginger and makrut lime poached chicken on a platter for everyone to help themselves.

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Salad

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

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

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Andrew McConnell’s tomato salad, tofu and yuzu kosho.

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Salad

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

Andrew McConnell

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Salmon and lettuce miang.

EASY

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Family meals

Adam Liaw’s salmon and lettuce miang

30 mins - 1 hr
Adam Liaw

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Chickpea and tuna ‘chaat’.

EASY

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Oven-free dinner

Rosheen Kaul’s chickpea and canned tuna ‘chaat’

< 30 mins
Rosheen Kaul

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Consider making salad the main event for later dinners with Katrina Meynink’s Vietnamese tomato salad.

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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

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Quick & easy

Satay tempeh rice bowls with crunchy kimchi cucumbers

30 mins - 1 hr
Jessica Brook

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Adam liaw’s prawn and glass noodle salad.

EASY

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Substantial salads

Adam Liaw’s prawn and glass noodle salad

< 30 mins
Adam Liaw

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Satay chicken salad.

EASY

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Midweek dinner

Adam Liaw’s satay chicken salad

< 30 mins
Adam Liaw

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Juicy marinated beef, crunchy vegetables and noodles make this salad a textural delight.

EASY

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Substantial salads

Sarah Pound’s Asian beef salad

< 30 mins
Sarah Pound

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Mushroom larb.

EASY

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Quick & easy

Adam Liaw’s mushroom larb

< 30 mins
Adam Liaw

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This herb-strewn chicken and noodle salad is perfect in hot weather.

EASY

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Oven-free dinner

Rosheen Kaul’s ‘ghost chicken’ noodle salad

< 30 mins
Rosheen Kaul

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Pork, bean thread vermicelli and makrut lime patties with lettuce, peanuts and Thai dressing.

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