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Fresh mint, honey, and ground cardamom add an exotic touch to this creamy sauce served with broiled fresh pineapple. Serve the pineapple warm with the chilled sauce or chill both the sauce and the pineapple. Blanching the mint leaves for 15 seconds softens them; otherwise they would make the sauce seem coarse.

Basically just a crustless pumpkin pie, this delicious baked pudding takes advantage of some off-the-shelf ingredients: canned pumpkin pie mix and refrigerated egg substitute. Once the ingredients are assembled (there are only four of them!), it should take only 5 minutes to put the pudding together. The rest is unattended cooking in the oven. Serve the hot pudding with a dollop of lightly sweetened fat-free sour cream or a scoop of low-fat vanilla frozen yogurt.

Sundaes for breakfast? Why not? But instead of ice cream, this fresh fruit sundae is served with a honey-sweetened fat-free yogurt.

These roasted asparagus spears could be served as a side dish, as part of a buffet, or as an appetizer.

Serve alongside grilled meats, poultry, or fish.

You will find a minimum amount of oil but a maximum amount of flavor in this orange-scented lentil and spinach salad.

Curry powder works beautifully with slightly sweet ingredients, like sweet onion, carrot juice, and sweet potato. The vegetables' sweetness brings out the complex flavors in the spice blend.

Serve this dish with basmati or jasmati rice and a small dish of mango chutney. The marinade for this baked cod would work equally well with grouper or snapper.

Raw fennel is a wonderful addition to salads, but when you bake it, it becomes a meltingly tender side dish. The celerylike stalks attached to most fennel bulbs are too woody to be edible, but occasionally you’ll find some tender enough to eat. Test the stalks to see, and any that aren’t too tough can be baked along with the bulbs.

This broth gets its flavor from two members of the onion family, Spanish onions and leeks. Be sure to wash the leeks well, since they often come with quite a bit of sandy soil hidden among the green leafy tops.