17 Delicious Dishes That Also Happen to Be Healthy

One of the pros of this dish (aside from its deliciousness) is that the components can last a week in the fridge and months in the freezer. It’s perfect for meal prepping, and you can pull it out on nights when you don’t feel like cooking.

Sheet pan dinners are the easiest thing to pull together on busy weeknights. This sausage and veggies option is adapted from Nicole Tam and Henry Fong’s Nom Nom Paleo cookbook, Ready or Not!

You probably won’t even notice that there’s no meat in this fresh and flavorful sandwich. And the ingredients are minimal: Kale, lemon, olive oils, parmesan, avocados, and salt and pepper, and sandwich rolls.

“This kind of ‘chicken salad’ of sorts can change with the seasons,” says Lulu chef David Tanis (who created this dish with Lulu founder Alice Waters). “The base recipe is a grilled chicken breast, salad greens, and a seasonal vegetable garnish.”

Looking for a comforting, yet healthy dish? This hearty soup by Tanya Holland is a “vegan play on chicken and dumplings.”

With superfood quinoa, this bowl is packed with fiber and protein.

You can serve the eggplant as a side dish, or pair it with rice for a vegetarian-friendly dinner.

Hearty ingredients like salmon, wild rice, and black quinoa make this salad far from boring.

This minestrone has pumped-up flavors, thanks to a variety of vegetables and legumes and a parmesan rind. You can also freeze it for up to three months.

Perfect for colder nights, this dish features a flavorful ginger and garlic broth. Top with green onions for a little bit of crunch.

Get the grill ready—this veggie sandwich calls for grilled zucchini, mushrooms, and eggplant. Pair with a crusty ciabatta loaf and you’re all set.

Make the most of winter squash season with this bowl. It features roasted squash and spiced brown basmati coconut rice. And don’t forget to add some chili sauce for a spicy kick.

If you want to add some complexity to the dish, you can top the curry with Greek yogurt, cubed paneer, chopped cooked bacon or sausage, or a sunny side-up egg.

Love Niçoise salad? Love antipasto salad? This salad is a mix of both.

When you serve this dish people are going to think you spent a long time on it. But they don’t have to know that the recipe employs a flavorful shortcut—Indian mango relish—as the main flavor base. It will only take you 20 minutes to cook.

From cookbook author and writer J. Kenji López-Alt, this recipe upgrades what could be boring chicken cutlets. He calls for adding half of the hearty vinaigrette to the chicken right before it’s cooked and then drizzling the other half after it’s grilled.

Sad and boring salads can leave you hungry, but this lentil salad from Alice Waters’ restaurant, Lulu, is definitely not sad and boring. Along with filling lentils, it features crisp broccolini and eggs.