Here’s a list of easy healthy recipes for any meal of the day: breakfast, lunch or dinner! Whatever the meal, we’ve got you covered.
Need healthy recipes inspiration? It can be hard to find recipes that are wholesome, not too hard to make, and delicious all at the same time. So here’s a list of our best of the best nourishing recipes for any time of the day! We’ve got something for every type of eater: there are quick dinners, seafood recipes and plant-based recipes loaded with veggies. There are lunch ideas and tasty ways to start the day! From baked oatmeal to pesto salmon to eggplant pizza: every single recipe has been a huge hit on our table.
What does healthy mean here? The list of recipes below all fit the Mediterranean diet, with seafood, lots of colorful vegetables, whole grains, and olive oil. Most are heavy on the nutrients, protein and fiber.
And now…our top healthy recipes for breakfast, lunch & dinner!
This ultra flavorful shrimp and broccoli comes together in minutes for a fast and easy healthy dinner recipe! It's loaded with protein and 132% of your daily vitamin C. Serve with rice or over noodles.
Also try: Shrimp Fried Rice
What makes this the best lentil soup recipe? Let’s just say that everyone we’ve served it to immediately asks for the recipe…and seconds. Lentils are the definition of healthy: low in calories, high in plant-based protein and fiber.
Also try: Instant Pot Lentil Soup, Curry Lentil Soup or Hearty Lentil Stew
This chickpea curry is the ultimate healthy and easy weeknight dinner! It’s done in 20 minutes, plant based, and full of flavor.
Also try: Shrimp Curry, Vegetable Curry or Butternut Squash Curry
This easy cauliflower stir fry is an ideal healthy and easy dinner idea! It’s full of nutrients and covered in a punchy sauce. This recipe has so many healthy vegetables, it provides 221% of your daily Vitamin C!
Also try: Go-To Tofu Stir Fry, Broccoli Stir Fry or Easy Stir Fry Vegetables
First up in our healthy recipes: pesto salmon! Bright green basil pesto is a natural fit with baked fish! This pesto salmon is an easy weeknight meal that also works to impress guests. Salmon is rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and a great source of protein (source).
Also try: Miso Salmon or Quick Broiled Salmon
Here’s a Tex Mex favorite recipe that's a great way to infuse loads of veggies: Vegetarian Faijtas! These are so satisfying, they please everyone around the table: even the meat lovers! It stars our favorite fajita veggies, blackened in the oven and finished on the stove, and pinto beans cooked in a flavorful fajita sauce. It’s so satisfying, you’ll promptly add it to your regular rotation.
Here’s how to make a grain bowl! Pair a whole grain, protein and veggies with this amazing tahini sauce to make a healthy, fast and easy dinner. The Easy Canned Chickpeas trick is a life-saver for healthy meals and takes just 5 minutes.
Also try: Easy Rice Bowl or Mediterranean Couscous Bowls
Pesto shrimp is a dinnertime win! Savory basil pesto is a natural pairing with juicy shrimp; serve with pasta or rice for an easy dinner idea. One medium shrimp has only 7 calories, so it’s a great lean protein for a healthy dinner!
Also try: Blackened Shrimp, Cilantro Lime Shrimp or Garlic Butter Shrimp
Try this Sweet Potato Curry! Tender sweet potatoes and bell peppers swim in a luscious broth of coconut milk and Thai curry paste, topped with fresh cilantro and crunchy peanuts. There’s so much flavor going on, you’ll want to take another bite before you’re finished savoring the first.
Hello and welcome to the best easy healthy recipe idea: the Hummus Bowl! Layer a dollop of hummus with crunchy veggies and greens. It takes just 5 minutes to make this Mediterranean-style meal that’s bursting with creamy, tangy, crunchy, fresh, and savory flavors.
Need a quick and crowd-pleasing healthy recipe? Try this Kale Soup with White Beans! Hearty Tuscan kale, white beans and kale float in a tangy broth flavored with oregano and fennel. It's full of bold Mediterranean-style flavors and comes together in just 30 minutes (bonus: it's great for leftovers!).
Here’s a healthy lunch or dinner idea to spice up your routine: Mediterranean tuna salad! This spin adds crunchy veggies and swaps out the classic mayonnaise for olive oil and vinegar. Eat with toast, crackers, spoon into avocados or make it into lettuce wraps.
It’s simple, it’s elegant, but it tastes like something you’d order at a restaurant: Sheet Pan Salmon and Asparagus! Roasting it up on a sheet pan with lemon slices and fresh herbs adds effortless flavor that feels fresh yet refined. This sheet pan meal works is the perfect weeknight meal.
Use eggplant for the crust to make eggplant pizza! These mini pizzas are tasty and easy to make, covered in garlicky sauce and gooey cheese.
Also try: Baked Eggplant Parmesan
Here’s a healthy recipe that makes the most delicious dinner you’ll put on your regular rotation immediately. Try this Tofu Curry! The brilliant red broth is flavored with coconut milk and red curry paste, with the zing of lime and a hint of spicy sweetness.
Here’s an irresistible Mediterranean recipe: Baked Falafel Salad! Make a batch of this easy baked falafel, then layer them with crunchy veggies and top with a creamy, zingy tahini dressing. Or, use purchased frozen falafel or even repurpose take-out leftovers!
Blackened salmon is the ultimate healthy recipe: fast, easy and seasoned to perfection! It’s guaranteed to become a favorite. The homemade blackened seasoning has a savory intrigue and makes a crispy black crust on the outside of the fish.
Also try: Cajun Salmon or Easy Pan Seared Salmon
Here’s how to make the tastiest fish tacos around! Bake the fish with a dry rub of spices, then top it with tangy slaw and creamy sauce.
Also try: Crispy Avocado Tacos or Best Jackfruit Tacos
This soba noodle bowl is a quick and easy dinner recipe, perfect for weeknights! It’s a filling vegetarian meal full of healthy veggies. Broccoli and red pepper load on the nutrients.
The ultimate vegan burrito is a healthy plant based lunch or dinner idea that's packed with flavor! It’s stuffed with Mexican rice, seasoned black beans and peppers, and avocado.
Also try: Vegan Enchiladas
Did you know stuffed peppers is a traditional Italian way to use up leftover odds and ends in your kitchen? We can’t take credit for this genius move, but here’s our spin on it. Try our favorite healthy stuffed peppers recipe! The filling is seasoned irresistibly with Italian spices, pizza sauce and melty cheese. Even better: it works for many diets.
Here’s a fun way to mix up lunch: Salmon Salad! It’s a creamy, crunchy mix of tangy flavors: just like Tuna Salad but using canned salmon. It takes just 5 minutes, and works with crackers, in lettuce wraps, in a sandwich, and more.
This pan fried cod is the best white fish you’ll have! Flavored simply with spices and olive oil, it’s healthy, stunning and irresistible all at once. Cod is a great low calorie source of protein and Vitamin B12.
Also try: Perfect Baked Cod or Perfect Grilled Cod
Here’s a fast and easy healthy recipe starring white beans! It takes just 5 minutes in a skillet and they’re full of flavor! Use this trick for cooked or canned beans. Beans may help you live longer: they’re rich in cancer fighting antioxidants and hearty-healthy fiber.
Also try: Easy Black Beans or Easy Cannellini Beans
You won’t believe the flavor in these Mexican sweet potatoes, topped with black bean salsa and creamy cilantro sauce! They're loaded with fiber and protein.
Need a healthy recipe in a flash? This speed demon quick chili recipe is just the thing: in under 25 minutes you’ve got an easy dinner!
Also try: 3-Bean Healthy Chili Recipe or Ultimate Vegan Chili
You won’t believe the flavor in these fast and easy egg tacos! The vegetarian “taco meat” filling works for any meal of the day. Bonus: they come together in just 5 minutes!
Also try: Loaded Quinoa Tacos or Cauliflower Tacos
Here’s how to make a poke bowl! This healthy recipe stars ahi tuna marinated in a flavorful poke sauce, rice, and lots of veggie topping ideas.
Also try: Vegan Poke Bowl or Ahi Poke Recipe
This broccoli potato soup is intensely creamy and 100% plant based! It’s an easy healthy soup that everyone loves (plus it’s vegan and gluten free).
Also try: Best Wild Rice Soup or Instant Pot Wild Rice Soup Recipe
This healthy sheet pan dinner is filled with healthy vegetables and fresh flavor! Throw it all in the oven while you cook rice or quinoa. Dinnertime win!
This vegetarian split pea soup is made with a touch of liquid smoke in place of the traditional ham. It’s a filling, easy plant based meal! Split peas are a special type of dried pea that is split in half, making it break down easily into a thick, soup like consistency when cooked.
Also try: Instant Pot Split Pea Soup
Need a healthy snack recipe or two? This crispy roasted chickpeas recipe is the perfect salty, crunchy healthy recipe for when you need salty snack! They’re spiced with chili powder and cumin.
One of the healthiest snacks you can eat? Hummus and veggies! This easy homemade hummus has the BEST zesty flavor and creamy texture: and it’s much cheaper and tastier than store bought!
Also try: Glowing Green Hummus or Creamy Beet Hummus
Here’s the most irresistible avocado sandwich: the Avocado Club! It’s filling and full of hearty flavor, the ideal easy lunch idea.
Here’s the very best tuna salad sandwich you’ll have! This classic recipe is creamy, zingy, and full of flavor. (Plus, a few variations to mix it up.)
Also try: Tuna Salad with Egg or Avocado Tuna Salad
A 5-minute fast lunch idea! This simple chickpea salad is easy to throw together: the perfect healthy plant based desk lunch or quick fix dinner. Chickpeas are a great way to load up on fiber and plant-based protein.
Also try: Easy Chickpea Salad Sandwich
This colorful kale quinoa salad is full of healthy ingredients and tastes incredible! Meal prep this easy plant-based lunch idea for meals all week.
A hummus sandwich is the best healthy easy lunch idea! This plant based recipe takes just a few minutes to make with colorful crunchy veggies, and it's full of protein!
Here’s an easy healthy lunch or dinner idea: lentils! This basic recipe makes perfectly seasoned brown lentils to eat as a fast meal, or use in tacos, salads, and more.
Also try: French Lentil Salad, Lentil Salad with Feta or Instant Pot Lentils and Rice
This easy tofu scramble has the same texture as scrambled eggs, but it’s 100% plant based! It’s a vegan breakfast idea you’ll want to make again and again. Tofu is a great source of protein to start the day.
Want to eat more veggies? Make this breakfast vegetables scramble! It’s got lots of colorful veggies to start the day right…with a plant based / vegan option.
This banana baked oatmeal is the ideal healthy breakfast! It’s full of good-for-you ingredients and so delicious, everyone will want seconds.
Also try: Everyday Baked Oatmeal or Baked Apple Oatmeal
Here’s how to make oatmeal! This master recipe makes rolled oats with the best chewy texture. It’s the ideal healthy breakfast!
Also try: Best Vegan Oatmeal, Perfect Steel Cut Oats or Easy Instant Pot Oatmeal
Looking for a 15 minute meal? This avocado toast with egg has a few unique tweaks that make for a tasty and easy breakfast, lunch or dinner.
These easy mini frittatas are just what you need for a quick nutritious breakfast or lunch! Filled with healthy veggies and packed with flavor, make them ahead to grab and go.
These healthy banana muffins are lightly sweet and made mostly of oats and bananas! They’re blender muffins so they’re easy to make at home. The oats makes them higher in protein and fiber than the standard muffin.
Also try: Apple Zucchini Muffins or Banana Blueberry Muffins
Here’s a make ahead breakfast: these Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies! Yes, it’s magic: oats, nut butter, applesauce, and maple syrup transform into cookies that you can eat for breakfast. There’s none of those traditional cookie ingredients: no flour, no butter, no oil, and no refined sugar. How is it possible? You’ve got to taste.
Want a healthy granola recipe that’s actually good for you? Here’s the only recipe you need! The maple pecan flavor is nutrient rich and 100% delicious. This one is only 200 calories per serving with less sugar than usual.
Want a muffin recipe that’s actually healthy? These healthy blueberry muffins are full of oats, berries, and bananas; and they’re totally tasty, too.
Need a chocolate fix? This chocolate snack tastes rich and chocolaty, but it’s just Greek yogurt, cocoa powder and maple syrup. And it’s made in 2 minutes!
Truly bliss in a bite, these healthy no bake cookies are made with chocolate and peanut butter. Easy and delicious, they are an all-time fan favorite!
More inspiration
Looking for other types of nutrient-dense recipes? We’ve got lots of other ideas for how to keep your meal ideas fresh. Try these options:
- 15 Healthy Breakfast Recipes
- 15 Healthy Lunch Ideas
- 20 Go-To Healthy Dinner Ideas
- 25+ Healthy Instant Pot Recipes
- 20 Delicious Healthy Snack Recipes
- 30 Soup Recipes Everyone Should Try
- 20 Great Healthy Side Dishes
- 30 Easy Seafood Recipes
Got specific dietary needs? Head over to our Plant Based Diet Guide & Recipes or Whole Food Plant Based Diet (WFPB) Guide & Recipes. Or try our Gluten Free Dinner Recipes or 20 Gluten Free Breakfast Ideas.
Print50 Easy Healthy Recipes: Broccoli & Shrimp Stir Fry & More!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
This ultra flavorful shrimp and broccoli comes together in minutes for a fast and easy healthy dinner! Serve with rice or over noodles.
Ingredients
- 1 pound large shrimp, deveined (peeled or unpeeled)
- 1 1/2 pounds (3 large heads) broccoli
- 1 small white onion
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- ½ tablespoon chili garlic sauce (optional)
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil (regular, not toasted)
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- Sesame seeds, for garnish
- Thinly sliced green onion, for garnish (optional)
- To serve: rice or noodles (see notes above)
Instructions
- If frozen, thaw the shrimp.
- Chop the broccoli into small bite-sized pieces. Cut the onion into wide slices.
- In a measuring cup, stir together the rice vinegar, soy sauce, and chili garlic sauce.
- In large skillet or wok, heat the sesame oil over medium-high heat. Add the broccoli, onion and kosher salt and cook 5 to 6 minutes until fork tender, stirring occasionally. Add the shrimp and cook 3 to 4 minutes, stirring frequently.
- When the shrimp is just about opaque, add the sauce mixture and cook 1 minute. Remove from the heat. Serve with sesame seeds.
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Seafood
- Diet: Gluten Free
Keywords: Healthy recipes
thank you for all of these, nice group of recipes – really like the eggplant pizza and loaded sweet potatoes (yay!)
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