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Cheap thrills: 50 low-cost legume recipes

They're budget-friendly, endlessly versatile and healthy to boot – whether soaked overnight or straight from a tin, legumes are your friend when it comes to healthy cooking on a shoestring.

50 recipes
This lentil curry is heavy on the ginger.
EASY

Coriander seed, ginger, coconut and lentil curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Roasted vegetable and lentil soup.
EASY

Roasted vegetable and lentil soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Use any soup mix in this Sri Lankan-spiced soup.
EASY

Sri Lankan-spiced lentil and bean soup

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Sweet potato and lentil curry topped with crispy chickpeas and yoghurt.

Sweet potato and lentil curry with roasted spiced chickpeas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Chickpea and green lentil curry served with chopped tomatoes and coriander.
EASY

Neil Perry's chickpea and green lentil curry with spinach

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Karen Martini's smoked trout, lentil and potato salad.

Karen Martini's smoked trout, potato and lentil salad

  • Karen Martini
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Quinoa and red rice salad with spicy cauliflower and black lentils.

Quinoa, red rice and black lentil salad with spicy cauliflower

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
Pick up a supermarket roast chicken for this spiced soup.
EASY

Ras el hanout, lentil and roast chicken soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's warm pumpkin salad with lentils and chilli.

Warm lentil salad with pumpkin and chilli

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Crispy curry leaves and coriander seeds add zing to this curried chickpea stew.
EASY

Indian spiced chickpea and coriander stew

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
This substantial salad is a study in contrasts.
EASY

Roasted pumpkin and chickpea salad with herby yoghurt tahini dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Chickpea and potato curry.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Chana aloo (chickpea and potato curry)

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
There's no shortage of avocado in this grain salad.
EASY

Farro, corn, chickpea and avocado salad with chipotle lime dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
This salad will get you back on the roasted cauliflower bandwagon.
EASY

Roasted cauliflower, chickpea and herb salad with harissa and honey dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Chunky pumpkin and chickpea curry.

Karen Martini's pumpkin and chickpea coconut curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
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Turmeric, ginger and coconut create a brightly coloured, flavour-packed dressing.

Chickpea and tomato salad with coconut dressing

  • Danielle Alvarez
This one-pot wonder will warm you up.
EASY

Warm chickpea and rice one-pot wonder with yoghurt and greens

  • Katrina Meynink
Spiced chickpea stew topped with roast pumpkin wedges.
EASY

Chickpea and roast pumpkin casserole

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Zucchini and cannellini bean soup.

Zucchini and cannellini bean soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Vanessa Gordon
Piyaz salad.
EASY

Piyaz salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken and sausage cassoulet. 

Chicken and sausage cassoulet

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's ultimate baked beans.

The ultimate baked beans

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Warm roast veggie salad with lemony lentils. Jill Dupleix BREAKFAST recipes for Epicure and Good Living. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Food preparation and styling by Caroline Velik. Bowl from Essential Ingredient, fabric from Manon bis. MUST CREDIT. Photographed March 22, 2012. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.
EASY

Warm roast veggie salad with lemony lentils

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Crispy skin salmon with braised white beans

Crispy skin salmon with braised white beans

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
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Hearty winter vegetable soup with borlotti beans and porcini mushrooms.
EASY

Fresh borlotti bean, winter vegetable and porcini soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Beans on toast.

White beans and spicy chipotle tomatoes on toast

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Roast carrot and lentil salad with crispy garlic.

Whole roast carrots with lentils, goat's curd and garlic chips

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Hellenic Republic's popular Cypriot grain salad is packed with protein-packed lentils.
EASY

Hellenic Republic’s Cypriot grain salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Travis McAuley
Chickpea and broccolini curry with garlic yoghurt
EASY

Chickpea and broccolini curry with garlic yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Tomato dhal topped with yoghurt and panch phoran roasted tomatoes.

Tomato, coriander and ginger dhal with panch phoran tomatoes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Greens, beans and noodle soup garnished with crispy onions.

Ash reshteh (Persian greens, bean and noodle soup)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Samin Nosrat
Vegetarian bolognese, no plant-based mince required.
EASY

Meat-free mushroom and lentil bolognese

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Sausage and lentil and casserole covered with haloumi cheese.

Sausage and lentil stew with grilled haloumi

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Yoghurt and coconut milk make this spinach and chickpea curry nice and creamy.

Three brilliantly simple vegan recipes from Deliciously Ella's new cookbook

  • Ella Mills
Sabrina Ghayour's ultimate falafels are packed with herbs and bolstered with extra flavour.

Three flavourful Persian-inspired recipes from Sabrina Ghayour's new cookbook

  • Megan Johnston
Bubbling filling and crisp top: Saag aloo shepherd's pie.

Four planet-friendly recipes from One Pot, Pan, Planet by Anna Jones

  • Anna Jones

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