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Dinner Recipes

Browse through healthy and delicious dinner recipes that are inspired by local ingredients, and are always simple to make. Compiled by a Registered Dietitian these recipes are plant-based and mostly gluten-free.

Some of my favourite dinner recipes include this Chanterelle Barley Risotto, this Lentil Roasted Vegetable Buddha Bowl and this Simple Peanut Satay Indonesian Style.

Japanese Salad Bowls with a Miso Tahini Dressing and Brown Rice

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This Japanese Salad Bowl with Miso Tahini Dressing is a favourite in our household. The miso tahini dressing is so easy to make, and really goes great on anything! Serve it on some wholesome brown rice topped with some fresh vegetables, or try quinoa with roasted vegetables for something different.

Japanese Salad with Boiled Eggs and Chopsticks On Side
 
I love the shift of household staples with the changing season. As the weather warms up, in comes the salads and salad bowls. I’ve already shared Baked Tofu Kale Quinoa Salad with Glory Bowl Dressing and then I followed that up with the lighter alternative Light Summer Salad with a Garlic and Tahini Dressing. Now my love of Asian flavours has inspired this Japanese Salad Bowl served with a Miso Tahini Dressing and Brown Rice, just in time to see summer to its end.
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Greek Red Lentil Soup with Lemon

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This Greek Red Lentil Soup with Lemon has been adapted from two of my favourite cookbooks. The addition of crumbly feta and fresh rosemary on top makes it a quintessentially Greek recipe, though this can be omitted for a vegan red lentil soup more representative of a Turkish or Lebanese red lentil soup.

Greek Red Lentil Soup with Lemon

Red lentils are my absolute favourite lentil to cook with. They have the shortest cooking time (12 minutes!) and once cooked, they break apart to help form a thick and satisfying soup consistency. I recently learned that red lentils are, in fact, brown lentils, but without the outer skin! If you have browsed my other recipes you will see that 99% of my lentil dishes contain the humble red lentil, and 98% of those are curry based dishes. I’m adding this Greek Red Lentil Soup with Lemon to the repertoire because the combination of lemon and lentils is really something special and I was thankfully introduced to this flavour combination during my travels through Turkey. This recipe for Greek Red Lentil Soup with Lemon is adapted from two of my favourite cookbooks – Rebar from Victoria, and Whitewater Cooks from Nelson because, well why not enjoy the best of both worlds.
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Garlic Scape Pesto Stuffed Mushrooms with Goat Cheese

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Mushrooms Stuffed with Garlic Scape Pesto and Goat Cheese

So unbeknownst to me, it is pronounced garlic “sk-ape” not “sk-ape-ee”. A sk-ap-ee pesto sounds about as appetising as a bowl full of punches. Garlic scapes are the first harvest of the garlic plant (the second being the garlic bulbs themselves) and offer a flavour that resembles scallions and garlic combined. Yum!
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Asparagus Crustless Quiche with Cottage Cheese

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This simple and seasonal asparagus crustless quiche with cottage cheese is a fun play on the traditional quiche. Cottage cheese is very high in protein, and this crustless quiche provides over 14 grams of protein per serving. Making a crustless quiche is easy, and makes this dish a simple midweek meal.

Asparagus Quiche in White Quiche Dish
 
Have you ever seen how asparagus grows? Being one of the first vegetables of spring, it is justly celebrated by all who are awaiting the new freshness of the year. At Pedrosa’s Asparagus Farm in Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island, we marvelled at how each individual spearhead pokes itself up from the dirt, commencing its daily journey towards sunlight. We were told that in just one warm day, each spear can grow… and grow… and keep growing until it resembles a 4-foot tree! This Asparagus Crustless Quiche with Cottage Cheese is a celebration of this springtime vegetable, and when combined with high protein cottage cheese it makes for a light spring meal that is also high in protein.
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