These 11 Healthy Dinner Recipes are a home run with the family at dinner time each evening. Here are a few of the favorites:
1. Chicken and Veggie Stir Fry
- breast, bell peppers, broccoli, carrots, snap peas, garlic, ginger, and soy sauce or tamari if using gluten-free
- Chop all up together with chicken, garlic, and ginger and cooks up with soy sauce over brown rice or quinoa.
2. Quinoa and Black Bean Salad
- Quinoa, corn, black beans, avocado, cherry tomatoes, red onion, coriander, lime juice
- Cook quinoa and chill. Mix in the black beans with corn on the vegetables. Bash with some avocado in a squeeze of lime juice and topped with some sprig of coriander.
3. Stuffed Bell Peppers with Turkey and Spinach
- Ground turkey, spinach, onions, garlic, bell peppers, tomato sauce, cheese of your choice.
- Instructions: Mix the turkey with garlic in a pan and sauté onions until just starting to soften and then add spinach and continue to cook over constant stirring until liquid is all gone. Then fill that mixture inside bell peppers and if you would like put it out topped with tomato sauce and cheese and bake until tender.
4. Lemon and Dill Salmon
- Ingredients:Garlic, olive oil, fresh dill, lemon, salmon fillets.
- Grill in a baking pan. Add little oil. Sprinkle some dill and garlic on them. And place a slice of lemon on their head. Grill until cooked.
5. Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos
- Ingredients: sweet potatoes, black beans, taco seasoning, tortillas, avocado, salsa, lettuce.
- How to make it: Toss sweet potatoes with taco seasoning. Put a filling below into each tortilla: sweet potatoes, black beans, avocado, salsa and lettuce.
6. Lentil and Veggie Soup
- Lentils, carrots, celery, onions, tomatoes, vegetable broth, seasonings cumin, paprika.
- Sauté in pan these: onions, carrots and celery Add the lentils, tomatoes and broth and cook till tender.
7. Chicken and Broccoli Casserole
- Chicken breast, broccoli, brown rice, Greek yogurt, cheddar cheese.
- Grilled chicken over steamed broccoli. Chuck the lot in the oven and let it froth and get golden brown.
8. Veggie-Packed Pasta
- Pappardelle, zucchini, red onion, cherry tomatoes, fresh spinach, garlic, marinara sauce
- Cook pappardelle. Toss together softening vegetables and marinara sauce. Add fresh spinach at the end
9. Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
- Portobello mushrooms, quinoa, fresh spinach, crumbled feta, minced garlic, herbs
- Pre-cook quinoa. Mix in fresh spinach, garlic, feta. Stuff the mushroom caps. Bake until mushroom is tender.
10. Greek Chicken Bowl
- Chicken breast, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, olives, crumbled feta, red onion, tzatziki sauce.
- Instructions: Grill or roast the chicken breast. Chop up. Toss with the cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, olives, feta cheese, red onion and top with tzatziki sauce.
11. Butternut Squash and Chickpea Curry
- Butternut squash, chickpeas, coconut milk, curry powder, onions, garlic, ginger.
- Instructions: You could braise this lot in a coconut milk base using this curry powder. But everything just bounces around together-onion, garlic, and ginger-with the butternut squash, chickpeas, and coconut milk, too. Just let it sit there on low until that squash is soft and flavors just really come together.
They are very healthy indeed very convenient for the family, as they provide many flavors and ingredients that benefit everyone.
