These healthy dinner options—including soups, stir-frys, stews, salads and casseroles—satisfy with ingredients that bring an array of textures, flavors and colors.
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White Bean Stew with Marinated Radicchio
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Flecked with dill, this healthful stew blew our tasters away. The recipe comes from the cookbook Every Season is Soup Season by Indiana author Shelly Westerhausen Worcel. The stew's companion recipe—one you can make with leftovers—is White Bean and Dill Dip.
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Rajas with Corn Tacos
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Rajas are roasted pepper strips—poblano chiles, in this case. Since the filling for these tacos consists of only a few ingredients, the freshest produce and best-quality tortillas will make a difference.
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Pork Chops with Grapes and Onions
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This dinner for two is weeknight-easy. Use bone-in chops for the best flavor and serve with mashed potatoes or rice.
Fast-Fix Weeknight Recipes
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Roasted Pear Salad with Farro and Arugula
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This creamy, whole-grain salad is hardy enough to be a meatless main, or enjoy it as a festive side dish.
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Cheesy Dutch Baby with Pesto-Dressed Vegetables
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We're convinced that colorful food tastes better-and nutritionists will tell you it's better for you, too. Proof: Our innovative recipe. While the egg-and-cheddar batter puffs in a skillet, a crazy-quilt of veggies roasts separately. When the timer beeps, put them together for a savory twist on a fruit-filled Dutch baby pancake.
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Quinoa Salad with Roasted Zucchini
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You could make a meal of this dish: caramelized zucchini, crunchy almonds, salty cheese and hearty quinoa, all dressed in honey-basil vinaigrette. The recipe comes from a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant.
Hearty, Healthy Salad Recipes
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Smoky Beef, Black Bean and Corn Chili
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This hands-off, slow-cooker recipe has just a pound of ground beef and a can of stock. All the rest of the heft and taste comes from black beans, fire-roasted tomatoes, smoked paprika, chipotle peppers and corn tortillas.
Warm-You-Up Chili Recipes
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Baked Ratatouille Sausage Penne
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What's the secret to keeping this pasta casserole as healthy as it is cozy? Lean turkey sausage, whole wheat pasta and just a sprinkling of cheese.
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Chipotle Shrimp Scampi
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This south-of-the-border variation on a classic Italian-American dish has a little smoky heat. It's a quick and healthy weeknight dinner, served over hot rice.
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Fusion Bowl With Tofu and Soft-Cooked Egg
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Carrot matchsticks, shiitake mushrooms and tender Napa cabbage hide in a tangle of chewy udon noodles. The tofu acts like a sponge, soaking up a sweet-and-spicy honey-Sriracha marinade.
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Braised Green Beans with Tomatoes and Lentils
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This healthy recipe is a lazy Sunday—or tired Tuesday—recipe from chef Abra Berens' book Ruffa*ge: A Practical Guide to Vegetables. Don't be alarmed by cooking beans this long. Make it vegetarian by using vegetable broth and skipping the Parmesan.
Top Vegetarian Recipes
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Moroccan Chicken Stew
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Golden raisins and almonds are classic Moroccan ingredients that are essential to this weeknight stew. Raisins add sweetness and almonds add texture.
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Green Bean and Tofu Stir Fry
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Extra-firm tofu is the choice for this quick, pretty and nourishing dish. It's least likely to stick in the pan or fall apart when turned.
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Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpea Soup)
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This healthy meat-free meal both nourishes the body and satisfies the soul. Vegans can omit the sprinkle of cheese on top and use toasted panko breadcrumbs instead.
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Winter Bean Salad with Fennel and Clementines
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Turn a humble can of beans into this impressive salad. It's already a main dish, but you can make it heartier by adding seared salmon or sizzled shrimp.
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Pasta with Chard and Basil
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If you have a big bunch of chard from the farmers market or a CSA box, this healthy, easy 30-minute dinner is a great way to use it up.
Chard Chimichurri
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Herbed Roast Salmon
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This recipe is a cinch to make, and you'll get all those healthy omega-3 fatty acids from the salmon.
Favorite Salmon Recipes
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Blackened Chicken with Avocado Salsa
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A zesty fresh salsa tops flavorful chicken breast. A little bit of creamy avocado goes a long way to making the dish taste more indulgent than it really is.
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Tuscan Bean Soup
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Flecked with a grab bag of hearty vegetables, this healthy soup hums with garlic and crushed red pepper. The recipe comes from La Soupe, a nonprofit cafe in Cincinnati.
Power Green Soup
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Bean-Mushroom Sloppy Jos
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Canned beans supply fill-you-up protein at a fraction of the cost, fat and calories of ground beef or turkey. In our sloppy joes, we dress navy beans in mustardy tomato sauce that has all the familiar flavor of the meaty original.
Great Recipes for Canned or Dry Beans
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