Best Healthy Recipes Ever

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.

20 Incredible Pork Tenderloin Recipes

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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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Fast, Cheap & Delicious Asian Noodle Recipes

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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.

More Polenta Recipes

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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.

More Curry Recipes

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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.

More Delicious Potato Recipes

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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.

How to Make Caramel Sauce

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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.

Eggplant Recipes

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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.

Seaweed Recipes

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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.

More Ideas for Beets

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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).

Panna Cotta Recipes

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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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Best Healthy Recipes Ever

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Quinoa and Brown Rice Bowl with Vegetables and Tahini

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Spiced Pork Tenderloin with Honey Mustard

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Watercress Soup with Pickled Cucumbers

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Rice Noodle Salad with Chicken

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Crisp Polenta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

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Chicken Curry with Squash

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Shrimp-and-Vegetable Summer Rolls

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Chicken Paprikash

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Root-Vegetable Gratin

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Sake-Steamed Halibut with Ginger and Cabbage

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Baked Potatoes with Wild Mushroom Ragù

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Crab, Avocado and Asparagus Salad

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Creamy Caramel Pudding

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Grilled Asian Eggplant with Ginger Sauce

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Nori Hand Rolls with Kale and Green Beans

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Beet Salad with Tangerines

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Linguine with Red Cabbage

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Beef Tenderloin with Pickled Onions and Pink Peppercorns

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Honeyed Yogurt and Blueberry Tart with Ginger Crust

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Cranberry Panna Cotta

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Warm Spaghetti-Squash Salad

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