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25 nourishing winter warmers full of goodness (and flavour)

Start the season as you mean to go on with these vibrant, wholesome recipes, designed to warm you from the inside. They’re your ticket to a healthy, flavour-packed winter.

25 recipes
Danielle Alvarez’s chicken, pumpkin, chickpea and rice soup with spiced chilli oil.

Chicken, pumpkin, chickpea and rice soup with spiced chilli oil

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Danielle Alvarez’s raddichio salad with pear, stilton and candied nuts.

Winter salad with radicchio, green apple, candied nuts and blue cheese

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Danielle Alvarez’s spicy shiitake and cabbage udon.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s spicy shiitake and cabbage udon

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Sesame-fried egg bibimbap.

Rosheen Kaul’s sesame-fried egg bibimbap

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Super green mac and cheese.
EASY

Super green mac and cheese

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Butter chicken tray bake with white bean mash (top right).
EASY

Butter chicken traybake with fast white bean and mint yoghurt mash

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
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Sarah Pound’s fish dish can be ready in less than 30 minutes.
EASY

Mediterranean one-pan fish with cherry tomatoes, olives and cannellini beans

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Karen Martini’s braised tofu with fennel, wombok, egg, brown rice and peanuts.
EASY

Karen Martini’s braised tofu with fennel, wombok, egg, brown rice and peanuts

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s white bean, cavalo nero and parmesan soup.
EASY

Italian white bean, cavolo nero and parmesan soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
This warming vegetarian risotto is ideal for the transition to cooler weather, made with naturally sweet roasted pumpkin.
EASY

Pumpkin risotto with rosemary and goat’s cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Fish with tomatoes, harissa and fennel.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s fish with tomatoes, harissa and fennel

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
This one-pot wonder will warm you up.
EASY

Katrina Meynink’s warm chickpea and rice one-pot with yoghurt and greens

  • Katrina Meynink
Fried brown rice with wood ear fungus and cashews.
EASY

Karen Martini’s fried (brown) rice with mushrooms and cashews

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
RecipeTin Eats’ SOS recipe: Spiced chickpea mushroom stew.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ one-pot spiced chickpeas and mushrooms

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Butter bean curry.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s butter bean curry

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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This Persian-style stew relies on sumac in place of hard-to-find black limes.

Persian-inspired eggplant, chickpea and beef stew

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
One-pot chicken, spinach and orzo stew.

Danielle Alvarez’s lemony chicken, spinach and orzo stew

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Sticky roasted pumpkin and miso rice bowls.
EASY

Sticky roasted pumpkin and miso rice bowls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Ham and pea risotto.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s ham and pea risotto

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
This one-pan wonder is ready in 20 minutes.
EASY

Speedy one-pan chickpeas and kale in spicy pomodoro sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Danielle Alvarez’s shiitake mushroom mapo tofu.
EASY

Vegan mapo tofu with shiitake mushrooms and crispy chilli oil

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
This butter chicken-inspired dhal can be made vegetarian - just swap the stock and hold the shredded chook (pictured as a topping).
EASY

Butter chicken dhal

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Hail kale! Adam Liaw's winter Caesar salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s winter caesar salad with kale and brussels sprouts

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Broccoli risotto topped with kale, harissa oil and goat's curd.
EASY

Blitzed broccoli risotto with cavolo nero, harissa oil and goat’s curd

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
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Fast ginger 'dhal' with hot smoked salmon.
EASY

Fast ginger ‘dhal’ with hot smoked salmon

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook

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