25 Healthy Dinners In 45 Minutes Or Less!
A new year is a perfect time to make healthier choices a habit. Kick-start your meal planning with this stellar collection of 25 Healthy Dinners In 45 Minutes Or Less! You won’t find plain Jane meat and potatoes… these are creative, well-balanced dishes from around the globe.
It’s the beginning of a new year, and a perfect time to add some interesting and healthy meals to your repertoire. 🙂 This collection includes something for every palate – curries, chicken, Asian-inspired, vegetarian, seafood, salads, soups… Peruse these recipes, pick a couple of favorites, and give them a whirl! What are you waiting for?
Quick and Healthy Curries...
A super quick and healthy Indian-style curry with calamari (squid) rings, burst tiny tomatoes and lots of fresh Indian flavor, served with a coconut rice with warm Indian spices...Dinner in 30 minutes or less!
Unique and Quick Healthy Chicken Recipes
Grilled Turmeric Chicken Salad Recipe – mixed greens, juicy turmeric chicken, roasted acorn squash, quinoa, pepitas, cranberries and delicious pumpkin vinaigrette.
This low-carb, high-protein Creamy Skillet Chicken is the perfect mix of healthy and delicious! It’s creamy and flavorful while still being healthy and super easy to make.
This gluten free recipe is packed with healthy ingredients - tomatoes, spinach and beans. It's extremely high in fiber, antioxidants, and essential vitamins and minerals and full of flavor!
Easy Healthy Comfort Food: Chicken Picatta, an easy weeknight dinner recipe that you can make in less than 30 minutes! Perfect for weeknight entertaining too!
Roasted veggies and boneless, skinless chicken thighs coated with a citrus-chipotle glaze is a great riff on the trending "sheet pan dinner."
Peruvian Chicken and Rice or Arroz Con Pollo brings a little Peruvian soul to your table. This flavor-packed one pot meal features aji amarillo (Peruvian yellow chile), and gets its signature green tint from an entire bunch of cilantro.
Asian-Inspired Quick and Healthy Dinners...
These easy and healthy Peanut Sauce Chicken and Broccoli Bowls only take about 20 minutes to make, and is a dinner the whole family will love! Serve with rice or cauliflower rice for a quick and healthy weeknight dinner!
Easy pork shiitake mushroom stir fry is a delicious one wok dish with velvety tender shiitake mushrooms, caramelized thin pork slices quickly tossed with ginger, garlic and chilis and a simple oyster sauce.
This healthy and colorful Hoisin Pork and Pepper Stir-fry comes together in a flash! Just whisk up your sauce and chop your veggies before you start cooking and you’ll have dinner on the table in 20 minutes flat!
Adventurous Quick and Healthy Vegetarian Dinners...
Vegan pumpkin lentil chili couldn’t be any easier to make! It’s a delicious and hearty plant-based chili loaded with veggies and plant protein thanks to lentils, quinoa, and black beans.
Baked eggs in tomatoes with lentils and spinach is a high-protein, low carb meal for any time of day.
Learn how to make extra crispy tofu with the minimum amount of oil and time without deep frying, plus the best General Tso sauce! {vegan, gluten-free}
This incredible vegan pho recipe puts a new twist on the classic Vietnamese noodle soup. It’s bursting with flavor, and simple to prepare in just 30 minutes. Plus, it’s 100% vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free!
Quick and Healthy Seafood Dinners...
Brown Butter Pan fried Salmon with Roasted Kumquats and Vegetables
Super easy yet super fabulous, this Brown Butter Pan Fried Salmon with Roasted Kumquats & Vegetables only takes 30 minutes and is flavoured with the amazingly rich, nutty flavour of brown butter and then drizzled with a creamy dill sauce made using the juices left in the roasting pan. A healthy, weeknight meal doesn’t come more impressive or flavourful than this!
This noodle bowl is jam-packed with goodness! Pan seared salmon, garlicky kale, avocado… the list of greens goes on! Each bite is nutrient-rich and delicious!
Replete with fresh, healthy ingredients, Healthy Mexican Seafood Soup features shrimp and fish, vegetables, and a savory broth flavored with lean Mexican chorizo and beer... This cozy, comforting soup recipe can be on your table in about 30 minutes!
A one-pot Mexican twist on a more traditional shrimp boil flavored with chorizo and beer!
Shrimp get marinated in a fresh lime, garam masala, ginger, and garlic mixture before getting grilled. Wrap them in a soft flour tortilla with Mango and Tomato Salsa and Cucumber Mint Raitta for a perfect Indian-fusion picnic dish!
Quick Salmon and Zoodles in Parchment features frozen (or fresh) salmon with spiralized zucchini noodles, tiny tomatoes, and corn all tossed with your choice of homemade or prepared pesto. Garnished with fresh lemon, basil and toasted pinons, and this dish is elegant enough for company but easy enough for weeknight supper!
Thanks so much for including our halibut curry in a hurry and our easy pork and shiitake mushroom stir fry. So many fabulous dishes all in one place. I can’t wait to try them all. Wishing you a super week. Take care
Thanks for submitting two excellent recipes Bobbi! I’m hoping to work my way down the entire list 🙂
Thanks so much for including my recipe Tamara! This is a great roundup and I love every single dish you picked. Will pin share it everywhere 🙂
Thanks Maggie! I hope to get many of these dishes on my table eventually. Your General Tso Tofu looks delicious, and I’m a huge tofu fan when prepared properly!
Great roundup! Thanks for the feature!
My pleasure! I can’t wait to try your Grilled Turmeric Chicken Salad!
What a great round up! I want each and every one of them!!
Me too! It’s so hard to do that when you’re always working on your own recipes, though!