A collection of top rated 45 quick healthy dinner recipes. From chicken tostadas to baked chicken breast, and from beef stir fry to shrimp tacos, be sure you will find an answer to “What’s for dinner tonight?” among these easy healthy dinner ideas. I hate that question too!
As a busy mom of 2, I know your struggle. I can help you! During 7 years of running this blog, I have put a lot of effort to create a variety of healthy dinners you can feed your family. Be sure all my recipes are ready in 30 minutes or less, use simple ingredients and are tasty. Bookmark this link for “[email protected], what’s for dinner?” moments. And be healthy!
45 Easy Healthy Dinner Recipes Are:
In my world, easy healthy dinner recipes are:
- Simple, wholesome, real food ingredients
- Quick and easy – 30 minutes or less
- Kid and entire family friendly
- Tasty
“What’s to Make for Dinner” Is Everyone’s Struggle
I’m a great cook. Yes, I will own it and will not be shy. And a girlfriend of mine is a fabulous one too. Just a few days ago, we had a conversation how each weeknight dinner is a full-blown strategy.
To make it:
- Fast
- Light enough for a mom
- Filling enough for dad and
- The one that kids will like. And…
- Preferably with some leftovers.
I’m happy we figured out there is nothing wrong with you because you are out of dinner ideas on busy nights.
Now let’s help you to put an easy dinner on the table!
45 Easy Healthy Dinner Recipes – Quick Links
I think it’s the best collection of easy dinner recipes on the web.
- Healthy Chicken Recipes
- Healthy Instant Pot Recipes
- Healthy Ground Turkey Recipes
- Healthy Beef Recipes
- Healthy Salmon and Shrimp Recipes
- Healthy Pasta Recipes
- Healthy Vegetarian Recipes
More Healthy Food Recipes to Try
- Healthy Instant Pot recipes. I love my 8 Quart Instant Pot to death. No exaggeration. I truly think pressure cooker saves my life because I throw everything in it and walk away. Its best feature is the hands-off cooking. Supper with minimum effort!
- Healthy freezer meals. When I travel, my husband puts frozen dinner in Instant Pot and walks away. Dinner from a frozen bag!
- Healthy one pot meals. My second favourite cooking gadget is my 6 quart Lodge dutch oven or a sheet pan.
Please don’t be shy to share! The more people eat healthy, the lower our medical bill. I’m serious. YOU CAN make a difference. So, share away, share away.
Clean Eating Chicken Recipes
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1. One Pan Tex Mex Chicken and Zucchini
2. One Pan Chicken and Veggies
3. Chicken and Whole Wheat Spaghetti
4. Peanut Chicken Soba Noodles
5. One Pot Quinoa, Chicken and Broccoli
6. One Pan Chicken and Potatoes
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7. Chicken Tostadas
8. Zucchini Noodles with Chicken
9. Ground Chicken Tacos
10. Buffalo Chicken Tacos
11. Chicken Quinoa Bowls
12. Chicken Abruzzi
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13. Baked Chicken Breast
While chicken breast is baking, cook quinoa or whole grain pasta and make quick cucumber and tomato salad.
14. Chicken Breast with Tomatoes
To make a complete meal, start with cooking quick cooking grain like quinoa or buckwheat. It takes only 15 minutes. In the meanwhile, prepare chicken breast with tomatoes. Then serve together.
15. Chicken Zucchini with Garlic and Corn
16. Chicken Burrito Bowl Meal Prep
You do not have to meal prep it. Just serve on plates.
17. Cajun Chicken
Serving suggestion: healthy mashed potatoes or cauliflower mashed potatoes for a low carb alternative.
Clean Eating Instant Pot Recipes
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18. Instant Pot Chicken Tacos
19. Instant Pot Stir Fry
Start with cooking quinoa or brown rice. Then proceed to making stir fry. Both will be ready at same time.
20. Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup
Clean Eating Ground Turkey Recipes
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21. Mexican Meatballs
- Cook brown rice for a side dish.
- Quickly mash avocado with a few favourite spices or just slice avocado. Or make salsa guacamole.
- Buy low sodium salsa or pico de gallo.
22. Thai Meatballs
Serve with quick cooking brown rice vermicelli, quinoa or brown rice.
23. One Pot Taco Pasta
24. Healthy Turkey Meatballs
Serve with whole wheat spaghetti and Mexican street corn salad. Both are pictured.
Bonus: One Pot Ground Turkey and Broccoli Pasta
Clean Eating Beef Recipes
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25. Healthy Beef Stir Fry
26. Healthy Beef and Broccoli
Clean Eating Salmon and Shrimp Recipes
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27. Thai Salmon
28. Honey Garlic Salmon
29. Lime Ginger Salmon
30. Easy Baked Salmon Recipe in Foil
31. Salmon Stir Fry
32. Easy Shrimp Tacos
Clean Eating Pasta Recipes
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33. Healthy Pasta with Pesto, Tomato and Broccoli
34. Alphagetti
35. Veggie Mac and Cheese Muffins
36. One Pot Chili Mac
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37. Pasta with Zucchini and Tomatoes
38. Penne with Kalamata Olives, Garlic Roasted Tomatoes and Goat Cheese
39. Healthy Mushroom Stroganoff
40. Penne with Broccoli in One Pan
Clean Eating Vegetarian Recipes
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41. Vegetarian Quesadilla
42. Sweet Potato Skillet
43. Cauliflower Fried Rice
You can add chicken for a full meal.
44. Vegetable Frittata
45. Pad Thai Sweet Potato Meal Prep
Don’t worry about meal prepping these. Just serve on plates.
46. Thai Cauliflower Rice
“light enough for mom. Filling enough for dad.” Maybe a sexist intro isn’t needed to describe your food.
I think you are crazy, Sarah, to be honest. Take your time and read again and don’t waste your life picking on little things that are not even real. Seriously! You have too much free time to think about nothing. Life is too easy for you. Don’t miss it!
Love these ideas! Just started clean eating and couldn’t need more help lol.
I found your site about a month ago. I’m a working mom who is in school at night. Eating healthy has been difficult when I’m crunched for time. But then I found this amazing list of meals! I’ve made 11 of these meals in the past three weeks and my family is in love. My husband and my girls almost always go back for seconds. Having leftovers is awesome because it cuts down on how many meals I have to cook. And the best part is my hubby and I have both lost a few pounds. I have shared this site with many of my mom friends and they all love it too. Thank you so much!
Awe, this is the best compliment I could have ever received. SO SO happy to hear I could help! Good luck with school and all the best!:) Thank you so much for sharing!!!
dear olena,i am a type 2 diabetic on a limited income and i am trying to find something that is cost effective and good please help
I am starting to cook dinners for my family I need to cook healthy which recipes are suitable for children but are easy enough to cook. Can you recommend any for me please.
Hi Ella. Yes, I can try. Depends how not picky your kids are. It’s really hard to say because what I might consider kid friendly, your kids won’t eat YET. Like do they eat quinoa? Salmon? You can start with Chicken and Whole Wheat Spaghetti, Veggie Mac and Cheese Muffins, Ground Chicken Burgers. I suggest you enter ingredient your kids like in a Search box at the top right hand corner of my website, like let’s say “pasta” or “chicken”, and see what your kids might like.:) Also, I shared my journey how I made my kids eat what we eat.:)
I just stumbled upon your blog and oh my! Cannot wait to try these recipes! They look amazing and bonus for being clean!! Thanks!
Enjoy, Shana! Let me know what you make.:)
Love all these recipes, I want to make them all! Is there a way to print them all at one time? Thanks for posting these, even if I have to open 1 at a time, I’m printing them all!
Sorry Sonya, unfortunately not. I wish! Glad you like what you see. Happy healthy cooking!!!
Thanks so much for responding. No worries, I’ll print them individually! Gotta have em!
Thanks for sharing your healthy cooking recipes with us . These recipes helps alot to me , I definetly try these recipes. Thans again.Keep posting like this.
This is a great collection! There are so many I will be trying this coming week. Great variety of vegetarian and meaty. My daughter (vegetarian) and I made the green spring rolls last night and she was speechless as she ate, as in she was in food ecstasy! Next is the saucy green beans…I think I will do it minus chicken and hope it won’t lack flavor, but I have green beans I need to use, and want my daughter to be able to eat it. After that is the kale tacos. Whoa. Those look amazing. Just need to find some decent tortillas. Thanks!! I would give you a huge hug if I could!
Hi Dana. Yay! That peanut sauce is good, I agree. The whole concept of dipping fresh veggies into peanut sauce is amazeballs. I know!
As for the green beans you should be OK w/o chicken as long as you use good quality pasta sauce. No problem.
Big hug to you too for eating GOOD FOOD! It blows my mind what people eat around me. Poison! Sad it is majority. Especially kids! I can’t invite most of my kids’ friends for dinner because they won’t eat normal food we eat. And I refuse to cook specifically for them. So good for you teaching your kid the right thing!
I love the huge selection of dinner recipes. I want to try a bunch of these. Thanks for sharing!
OMG!! I cannot WAIT to try all these meals!! This is the best list of clean meals I’ve found!! I’ll be sharing it with my momma friends for sure!! THANK YOU!!! And, I 100% agree that wine is the best dessert! 🙂
Hi Caitlan. LOL a momma hears a momma. Thank you so much for sharing and enjoy!
Found your site through Pinterest, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to try these. I eat so well all day (literally 6AM-6PM) but as soon as I get to dinner, I end up eating double to triple the amount of calories I’ve eaten over the course of the rest of he day. Can’t wait to try a bunch of these and find some good, healthy, go-to dinners!
Hi Amanda. First of all, I am glad you found me. Second of all, maybe I can help with my advice. Do you eat mostly vegetables and low carbs during the day? I rarely find myself too hungry for dinner and am OK with a moderate dinner and no dessert after. I eat a small serving of complex carbs, protein, fats and lots of veggies for dinner. Throughout the day I eat well and make sure more than light fruits and veggies. I eat complex carbs and a lot of fats. So, I am not hungry by dinner time. There must be a reason why you do that…
I found you through Pinterest, you’re very popular there! I typically have a protein shake with breakfast (Vega brand). Then I have a small snack before lunch, like some fruit, string cheese, or vegetables. For lunch I was having a whole wheat English muffin with 2 eggs, but since I have been using your recipes I have been having leftovers for lunch (I saw on your site that you do the same, hence the large batches of food, usually 6 servings). Then for dinner I was just making poor choices. I wasn’t necessarily eating a lot to reach that many calories, just eating things I shouldn’t have (pizza is my kryptonite!!!). I’ve been doing very well since finding your site and have lost 10 lbs, more than I’ve even been able to achieve before! I was having a hard time making creative, healthy dinners. I would get sick of chicken breast with a side of veggies and end up eating something I shouldn’t have. But I find myself very satisfied after eating one of your meals, as they are flavorful and delicious. You’ve been a huge help in my lifestyle change! Thank you!
Haha, sounds funny to me that I am popular somewhere. Like a Hollywood star which I am not at all.
Good for you! Yes, large batches of food help you make smart lunch and dinner choices. Sounds like it is just a matter of cooking healthy for your successful weight loss. Then you won’t make poor food choices. You are very welcome and keep up the good work. It is really all about food and treats in moderation. Diets don’t work! If you crave pizza that much try to have a slice for lunch, and just a slice, and eat slowly. I eat a slice of kid’s pizza at times. I would also make lunches more like dinner then you would be less hungry for dinner thus eating less before bedtime when you are not using that much energy and extra calories will turn more likely into fat.
These all look so good! I’m definitely going to be trying many of them, starting with the Garlic Chicken, zucchini and corn tomorrow night 🙂
Let me know.:)
Simple and delicious-sounding recipes. My sons and I do Blood Type A eating and most of them fit right in with our food lists. Can’t wait to try them!
Let me know which ones you guys try.:)
I’ve started clean eating as of the first of the year, and I love it!! Thank you so much for all of your recipes because it has mDe my journey much easier. My only
problem is I want to make all of them in one week. I’m a teacher, and I was wondering if you have clean eating lunch ideas?
Hi Amanda. Good for you!!! As for lunch we usually have dinner leftovers. That is why my large serving recipes lol. When fridge is empty, some clean eating lunch ideas are canned tuna or salmon, edamame beans, canned Amy’s organic soup.
I have so many recipe ideas I want to make and so little time so I hear you.:) I think it is like this when it comes to anything lol.
Thank you so much for your 30 minute meals or less. I have been looking for healthy, quick meals for my family during the holiday season and here they are. I am going to make so many of these for my in laws who are coming in for the holidays. Thank you so much for your blog. I love it and can’t wait to make all of your recipes. Happy Holidays!!!!
Hi Kayla. You are welcome. Glad you can use them. This is such a busy time of the year, I can barely keep up with dinners not to mention cookies. Happy Holidays! I have my mom for 2 weeks and I think will be making many of these recipes myself.