If liked, use skinless thin fillets and fold to help cook the fish evenly. Whiting fillets can be rolled and secured with at toothpick. Note

Tamari is a type of soy sauce usually made without wheat. Note

Gluten-free tamari sauce is available at health food stores. Note

To make salsa, combine corn kernels, chopped cucumber, avocado, tomato, coriander and a little chopped chilli. Note

The Italian pairing of canned tuna and cannellini beans makes a super-simple yet satisfying lunch. Serve over salad greens and with a toasted pita bread to create a nourishing meal.

If preferred, use a 400g can diced tomatoes in place of soup, and increase water to 1 cup. You can add 1/2 cup short pasta to this dish during the last 20 minutes of cooking, but you’ll need to add another cup of water. Note

Toss a little shredded parmesan through pasta with asparagus and peas. Note

For creamy polenta, make the polenta packet instructions, but use half hot milk and half hot stock in place of water. Stir in 60g chopped butter, 1/2 cup grated parmesan and season to taste. Note

Like many children of the 1960s and 1970s, award-winning chef Mark Gregory has lasting childhood food memories of baked beans on toast.

You could also accompany this curry with naan or paratha bread or pappadums. Note

You can use any variety of grapes. Note

Quail eggs can be replaced with 4 regular hen’s eggs. Cook for 2 minutes more. Note

Fun, easy and tasty, these bean burgers are a great vegetarian alternative to meat burgers. Get the kids to help!

Fresh, tasty and packed full of goodness, this delicious potato and bean salad is easy to make and makes a perfect side dish to go alongside your next dinner spread.

You need 150g sourdough bread, or about one large roll, to make 2 cups sourdough breadcrumbs. Note

Add some grated cheese to the recipe, or use a jar of char-grilled vegetables in place of the beans. Note

For a hotter curry, use vindaloo paste. For a mild heat, try making with korma paste. Note

This slow-cooked beef curry is a perennial favourite in Thai restaurants. When you cook it at home, it may take a while but the aroma and melt-in-the-mouth flavour makes the time spent worthwhile.

This warming, hearty and delicious tomato and bean soup sprinkled with parsley by Woman�s Day makes the perfect meal for lunch, especially when accompanied with crisp cheese croutons.

A nourishing spring bean salad that�s ready in just minutes. Create a nourishing meal with a combinaton of canned tuna and cannellini beans, served with toasted pita bread.

Cook bacon in a hot, lightly oiled frying pan for 3-4 minutes until crisp. Note

This soup freezes well – but do so after pureeing and before adding the cream. When reheating, simmer 3 minutes, reduce heat and swirl in cream. Note

We used white asparagus, but you can use green asparagus or more fresh beans.

Hot, spicy mouthfuls are just the thing when you return from the beach all salty and starving. Make the pork chilli ahead of time so you can whip these up quickly and pacify those hunger pangs.

The cooking time of perch depends on the thickness of the fillet. Note

Red kidney beans are high in dietary fibre, as well as being low in fat and low GI. Add them to seasonal soups and casseroles for all their nutritional benefits, and to help keep you feeling fuller for longer. Note

To save time, substitute dried canellini beans for tinned. Use one 400g tin and add to the soup with the tomatoes, zucchini, cavolo nero and bread. Note

No oven proof frying pan? Transfer hot bolognese to a pie dish. Mexican seasoning is available in spice aisle; substitute with taco seasoning if not available. Note

Beef minute steak is thin scotch fillet or porterhouse steak pounded to 1cm thick; it’s sometimes called barbecue steak. You can use chicken or lamb instead of beef. Note

Use chicken or beef mince instead of pork. You can make mince mixture ahead; keep, covered, in the fridge. Assemble just before serving. Serve with sour cream and bought guacamole. Note

Add halved cherry tomatoes and feta cheese. You can use any type of canned beans. Try using chicken tenderloins instead of pork. Note

Try using Thai basil; it looks slightly different from green basil; it has smaller leaves, purplish stems and a slight aniseed taste. Note

Make a double batch of meat filling so you’re ahead for another meal. Note

Use any firm white fish fillet. Make sure butter for sauce has cooled or it will separate. Note

You can use molasses instead of treacle. Make ahead: Make bean mixture a day ahead; keep, covered, in the fridge. Note

For extra flavour, use vintage or mature cheddar cheese. Swap kidney beans for Mexican-style beans or four bean mix. Note

Use a combination of ground cumin, ground coriander and ground turmeric instead of Moroccan seasoning, if desired. Note

Use cooking oil spray (spray for 30 seconds) on pumpkin instead of vegetable oil. Use brown rice or quinoa instead of barley. Cooking time and price will vary. You can swap pumpkin for kumara (orange sweet potato). Pilaf is best made close to serving time. Note

No microwave? Shallow-fry pappadums in vegetable oil, in batches, until puffed and golden. Transfer to paper towels. Cool. Note

Use a waxy potato, such as Nicola or Dutch cream. You’ll find cornflake crumbs in the breadcrumbs aisle. Use packaged dried breadcrumbs instead. Note

You can make this with inexpensive chuck or gravy beef, or try minced pork or beef – the cooking time will be shorter with mince. Note

Drop a small piece of bread into the heated oil. If it sizzles immediately, the oil is ready. This dish can be served with rice and miso soup. Note

This is delicious as a meal in itself, or you can serve it as a side dish. Note

Sliced chorizo can be added to this dish. Note

Get a good portion of your five-a-day along with a healthy dose of protein with this vegetarian Mexican extravaganza. Serve soup with warmed or toasted tortillas and if you like, a dollop of sour cream.

Vietnamese rice paper rolls are traditionally filled with either prawns or shredded chicken and accompanied with crisp vegetables, mint and coriander. The taste combination makes them a popular dish for children and adults alike.

Soupe au pistou is a classic Provençale recipe, usually made with white and green beans, and flavoured with pistou, a French spin-off of its near-neighbour Italy's pesto. Not dissimilar to Italian minestrone, this soup also benefits from being made a day in advance.

Lamb cutlets go beautifully with this black-eyed bean salad. The beans are the dried seed of a variant of the snake or yard bean, and can be found at your local supermarket.

Beef are a classic Mexican dish, best topped with sour cream and guacamole. You could also substitute the meat for pork, chicken, or even fish.

Hoisin sauce is a thick, strongly flavoured sauce that is very common in Chinese cuisine. Its sweet and salty taste works well as a glaze for meat, an addition to stir fries, or as dipping sauce. It is perfect with grilled chicken.

This traditional South African bean curry is a wonderfully warming vegetarian dish that is packed full of flavour and goodness to keep you fueled for longer.

Try this exquisite salad as a light lunch or as a side to your next dinner.

Simple and phenomenally tasty, these green beans almondine are almost good enough to eat on their own, let alone as a side dish. If you want to mix it up a little, you could add a bunch of asparagus in with the beans.

A delicious white bean, leek and garlic sausage soup with pistou that will warm you up and fill you up on a cold winters day. Especially if you've got plenty of good bread to dunk in it as you go.

Drizzled with a herby lemon dressing and scattered with toasted pecans, this salad is a wonderful way to celebrate the arrival of spring.

What better way to get your full quota of five-a-day than a plate of these delicious braised green beans and vegetables. Served with crusty bread or as a compliment to a meat dish, it's sure to satisfy.

Not suitable to freeze. Cavalo nero suitable to microwave. This recipe is also delicious with white fish, chicken breast or thin steaks. You can use black or green tapenade or substitute good quality basil or rocket pesto. Cavalo nero doesn’t lose volume like spinach or silverbeet, though either of these can be substituted if cavalo […]

Winter comfort food has never been better with this effortless soup and irresistible garlic bread, filled with capsicum, tomatoes and beans.

One of the classic dishes of Louisiana, famous for creole and cajun cooking, gumbo takes its name from an African word for okra, without which this hearty vegetable stew would not be the same.

A healthy white bean, corn and avocado salad from Australian Women's Weekly.