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Best Healthy Recipes Ever

By Food & Wine
Updated May 15, 2017
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Here, a collection of F&W's most popular healthy recipes, from a simple root vegetable gratin to a creamy cranberry panna cotta.
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Quinoa and Brown Rice Bowl with Vegetables and Tahini

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F&W's Gail Simmons makes this vegan rice bowl when she needs something especially healthy to eat.

  • F&W's Ultimate Guide to Healthy Eating

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Spiced Pork Tenderloin with Honey Mustard

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Since pork tenderloin is low in fat, it tends to dry out, so be careful not to overcook it—this recipe needs just 20 minutes in the oven. Melissa Rubel serves a stellar honey mustard alongside it to add moistness and sweet-spicy flavor.

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Watercress Soup with Pickled Cucumbers

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Quick-pickled cucumber slices give this delicate, fresh-tasting soup a little zing.

  • F&W's Ultimate Guide to Soup

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Rice Noodle Salad with Chicken

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Crisp Polenta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

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Like many red fruits and vegetables, the juicy roasted cherry tomatoes topping the polenta contain lycopene, which protects against cancer and heart disease.

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Chicken Curry with Squash

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Many curries are fiery, but this one is gently spiced with turmeric, which alternative-health experts laud as a powerful anti-inflammatory.

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Shrimp-and-Vegetable Summer Rolls

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Vietnamese rolls stuffed with shrimp get crunch and color from yellow peppers, lettuce and carrots—which, like most orange fruits and vegetables, are high in cancer-fighting alpha carotene.

  • Vietnamese Recipes

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Chicken Paprikash

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Low-fat chicken breasts stay juicy and delicious in the velvety, zesty sauce for this healthy Hungarian chicken dish.

  • Fast and Healthy Chicken Recipes

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Root-Vegetable Gratin

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Use a mandoline to cut the vegetables into thin slices; they will turn tender when baked with chicken broth and a little cream.

  • Thanksgiving Gratins

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Sake-Steamed Halibut with Ginger and Cabbage

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Grace Parisi steams delicate halibut with cabbage that’s sautéed with ginger and leeks until soft and buttery.

  • Healthy Fish Recipes

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Baked Potatoes with Wild Mushroom Ragù

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Grace Parisi likes using a mix of shiitake, oyster, chanterelle and button mushrooms for this succulent ragù to top baked potatoes, but any combination will work.

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Crab, Avocado and Asparagus Salad

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This mix of greens—including asparagus, a source of folate and vitamin K—makes this crab salad ultranutritious.

  • Salads with Seafood

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Creamy Caramel Pudding

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This decadent-seeming pudding is low in fat and a good source of calcium.

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Grilled Asian Eggplant with Ginger Sauce

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Marcia Kiesel likes dressing up tender Asian eggplant with a vibrant fresh-ginger sauce that would also be wonderful with steamed fish or poached chicken.

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Nori Hand Rolls with Kale and Green Beans

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Brown rice replaces the usual white in these fun-to-eat vegetable hand rolls.

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Beet Salad with Tangerines

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This clever recipe uses sweet-tart tangerines two ways: Sections of fruit are tossed into the salad, and tangerine juice flavors the vinaigrette.

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Linguine with Red Cabbage

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A little bit of cheese can add a lot of flavor to a healthy recipe. Marcia Kiesel tops this linguine with a scattering of crumbled feta, which melts on the warm pasta to give the dish a creamy tang.

  • Healthy Pasta Recipes

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Beef Tenderloin with Pickled Onions and Pink Peppercorns

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Tenderloin is one of the leanest cuts of beef. It stays moist in a lovely sauce flavored with rosé wine (an antioxidant source) and pink peppercorns.

  • Great Beef Recipes

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Honeyed Yogurt and Blueberry Tart with Ginger Crust

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Melissa Rubel mixes creamy yogurt with honey so it’s deliciously sweet and tangy, then she spreads it in a graham-cracker crust spiced with bits of crystallized ginger and tops it with plump blueberries.

  • Healthy Dessert Recipes

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Cranberry Panna Cotta

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This elegant, low-fat panna cotta requires only five ingredients: cranberries, sugar, gelatin, water and buttermilk (instead of the usual cream).

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Warm Spaghetti-Squash Salad

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Mild spaghetti squash is delicious with potent ingredients like the olives and feta in this lemony salad, which makes a wonderful starter or side dish.

  • Great Squash Recipes

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1 of 21 Quinoa and Brown Rice Bowl with Vegetables and Tahini
2 of 21 Spiced Pork Tenderloin with Honey Mustard
3 of 21 Watercress Soup with Pickled Cucumbers
4 of 21 Rice Noodle Salad with Chicken
5 of 21 Crisp Polenta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
6 of 21 Chicken Curry with Squash
7 of 21 Shrimp-and-Vegetable Summer Rolls
8 of 21 Chicken Paprikash
9 of 21 Root-Vegetable Gratin
10 of 21 Sake-Steamed Halibut with Ginger and Cabbage
11 of 21 Baked Potatoes with Wild Mushroom Ragù
12 of 21 Crab, Avocado and Asparagus Salad
13 of 21 Creamy Caramel Pudding
14 of 21 Grilled Asian Eggplant with Ginger Sauce
15 of 21 Nori Hand Rolls with Kale and Green Beans
16 of 21 Beet Salad with Tangerines
17 of 21 Linguine with Red Cabbage
18 of 21 Beef Tenderloin with Pickled Onions and Pink Peppercorns
19 of 21 Honeyed Yogurt and Blueberry Tart with Ginger Crust
20 of 21 Cranberry Panna Cotta
21 of 21 Warm Spaghetti-Squash Salad

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