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Meals in minutes: Little-cook dinners

Too hot to even turn on the barbie? Try these 5 little-cook dinners. From a ridiculously easy-to-prepare healthy lentil salad to stylish seared scallops, all give new meaning to beat-the-clock

By Carolyn Lim Chua; photographs by Edward Pond

Updated November 2, 2012

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Meals in minutes: Little-cook dinners

Recipes

• Mango and chicken salad

• Middle Eastern supper salad

• New cheddar apple salad

• Seared scallops on tender greens

• Summery curried lentils

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