Healthyish

Lara Lee’s crunchy, bright, and veg-packed summer rolls are a cross-cultural twist on two street food icons: refreshing Vietnamese gỏi cuốn and Indonesian gado-gado.

Normally we’d cook meat or fish with the rice so the flavors mingle, but because shrimp cook so fast, we like to pan-fry them and toss with the rice at the very end. 

This scallion chutney from chef Preeti Mistry comes together in minutes and will make anything taste better.

This hearty vegetarian Ethopian dish from chef Fanta Prada gets its gingery, garlicky kick from awaze, a versatile hot pepper seasoning with a myriad of variations.

This one-pot meal is cozier than your favorite bathrobe, with fragrant basmati rice, tender chicken, warm spices, and coconut milk.

Chef Melissa Miranda’s adobo is oven-roasted, leading to tender meat on the bottom of the pot as well as crispy skin on the top.

This recipe covers pretty much all of our working-from-home lunch criteria: it’s cheesy, packed with greens and protein, and topped with hot sauce.

A nut-free riff on Egyptian dukkah lends heat, sweetness, and crunch to these tender coconut-braised carrots.

Use whatever sturdy greens you have on hand to create this simple but satisfying side.

Chef Melissa Miranda’s version of the Filipinx fish dish with a velvety-rich tomato sarciado sauce.

Pasta cooks directly in its sauce in this genius vegetarian dish that stars lentils and deeply browned mushrooms.

Crispy chickpeas and gorgeous red endive just made your lunchtime tuna salad a lot more exciting.

These healthy turkey meatballs are ready in 30 minutes, with a nutty romesco-inspired sauce you’ll want to keep on hand for future dinners.

Ghormeh sabzi is one of the most celebrated Iranian stews. Andy Baraghani’s recipe includes lamb shoulder, onions, tons of fresh herbs, dried limes, and dried fenugreek leaves.

Just when we were starting to run out of ideas for what to make for lunch at home, these melty broccoli toasts appeared.

Tyna Hoang’s gỏi tôm bắp cải is a colorful salad of cabbage, crunchy vegetables, poached shrimp, and tangy nước chấm.

Chaat masala adds salty-tangy flavor to this pan-fried fish, and balances the sweet and herby tamarind sauce and cilantro chutney.

This twist on savory Korean rolled omelets are filled with toasted seaweed snacks and...Parm shavings!

Cooking the noodles in mushroom broth brings umami and oomph that other vegetable broth can’t compete with.

Yogurt does double duty as a marinade that tenderizes the chicken and as a sauce for the finished dish.