Need some new dinner ideas? Try one of these 20 easy healthy dinner recipes. There are options for vegans, low carb, and basically all dietary needs!
Eating healthy meals at home doesn’t have to mean a lot of time and effort. Even if you have dietary restrictions you can find amazing recipes that are easy to make and your whole family will enjoy.
In this post, you’ll find 20 easy healthy dinner recipes to get you started. But that’s just a starting point. There are also some good cookbooks to check out, additional recipes you can find on the site, and a whole new way to meal plan your healthy meals!
First, check out these 20 delicious healthy recipes! They come from some top food bloggers and are sure to help motivate you to eat at home more often.
Easy Healthy Dinner Recipes
Tuscan Chicken
This Healthy Tuscan Chicken is all kinds of delicious and super simple to make in just one skillet, plus it’s loaded with veggies and budget friendly! This Tuscan Chicken recipe is Dairy Free, Whole30 and Paleo.
Perfect Summer Chicken Salad with Grapes
Learn how to make chicken salad with grapes at home. It’s every better than what you can buy, with better ingredients, and is really easy to make.
Easy Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
This easy chicken pot pie recipe is perfect for using up leftover chicken and leftover veggies. It can also be made as a turkey pot pie or even ham pot pie!
Grilled Chicken Shawarma with Yogurt Tahini Sauce & Marinated Veggies
A gluten-free and paleo grilled chicken shawarma recipe served with a dairy-free yogurt tahini sauce and marinated veggies. This Arabic meal packs in so much flavor and is guaranteed to be a showstopper dinner!
Vegan Moussaka
This Vegan Moussaka uses all natural ingredients and celebrates the best Greek cuisine has to offer. It comprises lentils in a tomatoey base, with layers of potato, celeriac and eggplant, topped with a cashew cream sauce. Bliss!
Easy Instant Pot Tilapia with Vegetables
Instant Pot tilapia with vegetables is a healthy, light, and easy pressure cooker dinner with your favorite white fish and colorful veggies!
Easy Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas
Ready to make some super flavorful Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas? Making Chicken Fajitas in the Instant Pot takes no time at all and can be a healthy dinner option. Check out the video tutorial further down in the post.
Roasted Broccoli and Cauliflower Pasta with Parmesan, Lemon and Garlic
This recipe is deceptively simple … just a few ingredients add up to surprisingly big, big flavors! Plus, with all those roasted veggies, it’s a meal-in-one with no vegetable side dish needed – perfect for busy nights!
Vegan Teriyaki Chickpea Bowl
Teriyaki chickpeas are healthy, vegan, can be gluten free, and are kid approved! They're delicious and based with plant-based ingredients that are filling and a great replacement for Chinese take out in 30 minutes.
Buttery Baked Salmon with Broccolini
An easy yet super delicious and healthy baked salmon recipe that gets you dinner ready in no time.
Spicy Garlic Lime Chicken: Flavorful Family Recipe
Spicy Garlic Lime Chicken is the perfect balance of flavors and you can easily adjust the heat to suit your family’s spice preference.
Juicy Roasted Turkey Breast
Easy roasted turkey breast that is ready in just 60-90 minutes. It’s perfect for dinners with smaller number of people.
Keto Egg Roll in a Bowl
The ever so addicting Paleo Pork Egg Roll in a Bowl (Crack Slaw). Super easy to make, and oh so satisfying.
BEST GLUTEN FREE STEAK SALAD WITH AVOCADO DRESSING
This gluten free steak salad recipe with homemade avocado dressing is both hearty and healthy! The options to personalizing this salad are endless.
Butternut Squash and Chickpea Curry
This curry has so many health benefits, from the squash, vegetables, turmeric, chickpeas, and coconut milk.
Juicy Oven Baked Chicken Drumsticks
This easy oven baked chicken drumsticks recipe is delicious for family dinners and requires only a little prep time. Add potatoes and carrots for a simple and classic and juicy sheet pan meal that even picky eaters will love.
Vegan Sheet Pan Gnocchi and Vegetables
Vegan Sheet Pan Gnocchi and Vegetables – quick 30-minute dinner is exactly what you need to get an easy weeknight meal on the table fast.
Lemon Garlic Chicken
Juicy and tender chicken bursting with flavor. One pot and ready in less than 25 minutes!
Low Carb Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
This low-carb alternative to the comfort food favorite is a real winner! The creamy cauliflower and seasoned breadcrumbs crust make this a healthy comfort food you'll love.
Chicken Alfredo with Roasted Broccoli and Spaghetti Squash
Looking for a delicious recipe the whole family will love and it’s still healthy? Try chicken alfredo with roasted broccoli and spaghetti squash.
Healthy Meal Planning
These 20 recipes are a good place to start but what about meal planning for the future? If you want meal planning to be really simple you should try Eat At Home.
It’s a meal planning service that does all the hard work for you. Here is what you will get with Eat At Home.
- Four different meal plan types (traditional, whole food plant-based, slow cooker/Instant Pot, and no sugar, no flour).
- 15-minute meal options for those busy nights.
- Color-coded shopping lists for the meal plans.
- 1-hour freezer cooking plans.
- and more!
Eat At Home is a great option if you feel overwhelmed by meal planning but want to eat at home more, waste less food, and eat delicious meals.
Healthy Eating Cookbooks
If you don’t mind meal planning and like using traditional cookbooks there are some really great options out there for healthy eating cookbooks.
It can be a lot of food to look through physical cookbooks and often that is a less distracting way to find recipes. As much as I love Pinterest it’s easy to fall down rabbit holes and no longer be looking for recipes but instead, you are looking at DIY projects or something like that.
These are some of the top-rated cookbooks for healthy meals. You can also try your local library to see if you can borrow these books first to see if they will work well for you.
It’s also best to buy these books from your local bookstore but if that’s not an option they can be found on Amazon.
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