Healthy Recipes

From a coconut broth noodle soup to easy peasy cheese puffs, these recipes prove deliciousness and efficiency can coexist in the kitchen.

Welcome to Cooking On The Cheap, a series of editor-approved recipes that deliver big taste on a small budget.

Plus four delicious vinaigrette recipes, backed up by science.

Romesco sauce is typically made with almonds or pine nuts. To keep costs down, I use tahini. It adds richness and body to the sauce as well as a little bitterness, which offsets the sweet peppers and garlic.

A popular salsa that, in my opinion, also qualifies as a salad, pico de gallo hits every note I want in a fresh and savoury dish: salty, sour, a little bit sweet and as spicy as you’d like it to be. Adding corn and beans ups the vegetable and protein content and turns it into something resembling a meal. Now I can feel good about eating salsa all day—and you can too.