Are you looking for wholesome, high-fibre recipes to help improve your digestion? Check out the ideas below for nourishing stews, curries, salads, pies and more.

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Next, check out the top high-fibre foods to add to your diet, the best high-fibre breakfasts to kickstart your day and read up on how to support a healthy gut. Don't forget to have a look at our gut-healthy recipes too.


Vegan aubergine curry

Cook aubergine pieces with fragrant spices and red lentils for a hearty yet healthy vegan aubergine dhansak to feed the whole family. Enjoy with pilau rice.

Vegan Aubergine Curry in a Large Dish with Naan Bread

Chilli con carne cottage pie

Take your cottage pie up a notch with paprika, chilli and cumin. This low-calorie dinner is topped with mashed sweet potatoes for an extra hit of fibre.

A cottage pie topped with sweet potato mash

Grilled hake with chickpeas

Simply grilled hake, with a side of preserved lemon and paprika chickpeas plus leafy kale, makes a nutritious dinner that contains plenty of fibre.

Grilled Hake with Smoky Chickpeas, Preserved Lemon and Kale

Feel-good winter salad

This nourishing salad is packed with lots of fresh ginger and garlic, full of antioxidants and vitamins. Raw kale is great for digestion, along with beetroot, broccoli and avocado.

Platter of winter salad next to a bowl of dressing

Broccoli and peanut soba noodles

Gluten-free soba noodles are tossed with fresh greens and a zingy dressing, then topped with roasted peanuts for added crunch.

Soba Noodles in a Bowl with Broccoli, Peanuts and Limes

Healthy beans on toast

Make your own healthier baked beans to avoid the ultra processed version. You'll benefit from less salt and sugar, but plenty of fibre.

Healthy beans on toast on a plate

Miso roasted cauliflower, avocado and lentil salad

Fibre-rich cauliflower is roasted in a miso dressing – also filled with probiotics – and turned into a rustic salad with pickled onions and lentils. It's delicious and great for your gut, too.

A platter topped with roasted cauliflower, lentils and slices of avocado

Berry and nut butter porridge

Packed with nuts, fruit and oats, this hearty porridge bowl is perfect for a post-workout breakfast.

Berry porridge with almond butter on top

Chickpea tagine

This warming tagine is packed with nutritious chickpeas and spinach, and flavoured with warming spices like cinnamon, cumin and turmeric. A hearty, filling dinner that's full of the good stuff.

Two bowls of chickpea and potato tagine on a white linen table cloth

Avocado on toast with smoked salmon

Creamy avocado and smoked salmon is a winning combination. Serve on wholemeal or rye toast for a fibre-packed lunch or brunch.

Avocado Toast Recipe With Smoked Salmon

One-pot winter warmer

A vegan one-pot packed with plenty of ginger, garlic and turmeric to support your immune system, plus beta carotene-rich sweet potatoes for vitamin A and eye health.

A hearty one-pot in a yellow broth with vegetables and spinach

Five-bean chilli

Make the most of storecupboard tins in this easy vegan bean chilli. Serve this comforting one-pot with brown rice, avocado, coriander and dairy-free yogurt for a nourishing dinner.

A cast iron pot filled with bean chilli with sliced avocado on the side

Spiced squash, spinach and lentil soup

A wholesome, nutritious soup packed with squash, puy lentils, bulgar wheat and plenty of cumin for kick.

Spiced squash and lentil soup

Turmeric-fried veggie rice

Try our vibrant turmeric-fried rice. This colourful recipe is packed with punchy flavour and super simple to make. Plus, it comes in at under 300 calories per serving.

Tumeric-fried veggie rice

Roasted sweet potato and freekeh salad with harissa-yogurt dressing

This veggie freekeh salad is easy to prepare and makes a filling lunch. Both freekeh and sweet potato top up the fibre content, while harissa adds a touch of spice.

Roasted Sweet Potato Recipe with Freekeh Grain Salad

Mushroom pearl barley risotto with roasted carrots

Pearl barley makes a great change from rice in risottos, and you won’t need to continuously stir it. This mushroom risotto is topped with sweet and nutty roasted rosemary carrots.

Two bowls filled with barley risotto and topped with orange roast carrots

Baked sweet potatoes with smoky beans

This recipe for baked sweet potatoes with smoky beans makes for a great easy veggie meal for two. Plus, it's under 500 calories – perfect for midweek.

Baked sweet potatoes with smoky beans

Chickpea, pepper and bulgar wheat salad

Make our vibrant veggie salad for a nutritious midweek meal ready in less than half an hour.

Chickpea Salad Recipe with Bulgar Wheat

Thai-style broccoli fried rice

Packed with protein and low in calories, this speedy broccoli rice dish is full of exciting texture and flavour, with punchy chilli, zingy lime, crunchy veg and peanuts.

Thai style broccoli fried rice in a bowl

Carrot and parsnip dhal

Show your leftover roast veggies some love and use them to top a nourishing bowl of spiced tarka dhal. This makes an easy vegan dinner for four.

Two bowls filled with yellow dhal and topped with roast parsnips

Sweet potato chilli

This recipe for sweet potato and quinoa chilli makes a great veggie alternative to the traditional chilli. It's under 500 calories and is packed with flavour, so you won't even miss the meat – great for a midweek meal.

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Sweet Potato Chilli Recipe

Pepper, date and harissa tagine

This tagine makes a feature of meltingly soft peppers, but you could add any summery veg to the base sauce – chunks of squash or courgette would be good.

Pepper, date and harissa tagine in a serving bowl

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