Healthy Recipes to Kick Off Your New Year’s Resolutions

What better way to achieve 2025 nutrition goals than cooking at home? Here, we have rounded up a few of our favourite recipes from local chefs and beyond, for eating clean this year.
Vegan Chickpea Farinata With a Middle Eastern Twist
This dish from Glowbal Restaurant’s executive chef, Alex Kim, incorporates Middle Eastern ingredients and techniques into the Italian delicacy’s accompaniments.
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In this book written by Zach Berman and Ryan Slater, co-founders of Vancouver’s The Juice Truck, and co-written with health coach Colin Medhurst, the Juice Truck team hopes to share their wholesome practices with a wider audience. Here, they share with us three easy-to-make smoothie recipes.
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Caramelized Fig, Orange, and Feta Salad
Delicately sprinkled with feta and arugula, the dish from chef Yotam Ottolenghi proves a fine combination of sweet, salty, and fresh.
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2-in-1 Recipe: An Easy Sunday Night Chicken Dinner
This tandoori chicken and haricots dish by Tractor is healthy and comforting, but more importantly, it strikes the balance between attainability and making us feel competent in the kitchen.
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Eat This Salad for a Prosperous New Year
The chef/co-owner of Vancouver’s Potluck Hawker Eatery, Justin Cheung, provides a recipe for yee sang, a simple Cantonese raw fish salad traditionally enjoyed throughout Malaysia and Singapore that promises prosperity and guarantees deliciousness.