These stealthy healthy recipes pack a wallop of healthfulness yet don’t feel wanting in taste or appeal in any way. We’re talking about sweet potatoes and turkey and avocado and root vegetables and all manner of goodness that’s still satiating.
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Turkey Meatballs with Angel Hair Pasta
Turkey meatballs with angel hair pasta is a healthy, kid-friendly pasta dinner made with ground turkey and bread crumbs and stuffed with mozzarella. Exactly what you need the next time it’s a weeknight and you’re wondering what’s for dinner.
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This pozole verde is a comforting bowl of Mexican stew, made with chicken thighs, hominy, tomatillos, and jalapeno. Quick and easy to make but tastes authentic.
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This breakfast sandwich, made with toasted English muffins, fried eggs, creamy ricotta cheese, and sautéed kale, makes a quick, healthy, and satisfying meal any time of the day.
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This cauliflower fried rice is indeed gluten-free and paleo, but is almost indistinguishable from the real thing. The sweet and savory sauce really gives the dish loads of tastiness.
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This shredded beef chili with sweet potatoes, can be made in the oven or slow cooker. Loaded with tender braised beef, sweet potatoes, beans, peppers, and tomatoes, it’s the answer to all your chili dreams.
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This Mexican chicken soup is authentic Yucatan fare that’s simply broth, avocado, lime, tortilla, and rice. The sum is far more than the parts. And it’s comforting as heck.
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This skillet eggs with chorizo and vegetables is an easy one-pan meal made with chorizo sausage, zucchini, eggplant, tomato, and onions and are topped with fried eggs. Perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
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These root vegetable chips are easy to make and completely irresistible. The snack, which tastes just like the chips from Terra, are made by roasting thin slices of beet and sweet potatoes until crisp.
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These Israeli pickles boast a Middle Eastern flair and turn out lovely pickled cauliflower, cucumbers, and red onion. Each ingredient is preserved in a different spiced vinegar mixture.
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This chicken apple sausage is surprisingly simple to make and has a slightly sweet lilt that's magnificent any time of day. Here's how to make it and how to cook it. No meat grinder required. And did I mention it's healthy?!
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These buckwheat pancakes cook up fluffy as can be, contrary to most whole-grain pancakes. And if the healthy angle doesn’t compel you, the spectacularly nutty taste will. The only special ingredient is buckwheat flour—everything else you probably already have in your pantry.
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These breakfast cookies are loaded with banana, oats, whole wheat flour, flaxseed, peanut butter, figs, and chocolate chips to make a satisfying, filling breakfast. Kids love ’em. Sorta like granola cookies.
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The key to using avocado in an avocado chocolate pudding is to make sure you completely purée it, so that there are no undesirable lumps in your pudding
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I have a few up my sleeve that is surprisingly healthy. With that being said, I am not saying they will apply easily to Weight Watchers or whatnot. Instead, it is about how many types of vegetables are thrown in there and ultimately plump the meal and creates a bit of freshness.
Gumbo (jambalaya, etouffee, or a cassoulet): onion, celery, capsicum, corn.
Shepherd’s Pie (…..fine! It’s more cottage pie that I do, being beef and whatno): sweet potato, onion, carrot, peas, corn (that last one especially for a Quebec style spin).
Scottish Beef Stew: onions, sweet potato, carrot, swede, leek. How I managed to fit everything into my slow cooker when I did the recipe, I will never know.
Firecracker Chicken: onion, capsicum, snow peas. If you look at this, then the sauce recipe it will make sense.
Chilli (in general): onion, capsicum, corn, and (although they are not vegetables) lots of beans. Other recipes call for carrots, and celery.
Of course, most recipes can be spruced up with a mere cup or two of frozen mixed vegetables. Plus, tomato does feature frequently in the cooking I do. That just shows how easy and cheap making something that bit healthier really can be.
Thanks, Mikey. These are all fantastic ideas and extra vegetables are always a welcome addition.