20 Detox Recipes

A rimmed baking sheet filled with crispy baked kale chips.

Kale Chips1/20

Potato chip fiends, stop your scoffing. We double-dog dare you to make a batch and stop at just one.

Homemade Larabars2/20

We got nothing against the Larabars we've been noshing for years. Save for the crazy price tag. Here's a less expensive, more customizable alternative.

White oval dish with four chicken drumsticks, chopped green tomatillos, cilantro, onion, sliced chiles

Braised Chicken with Tomatillos3/20

Slightly tart and eminently easy, this tomatillo sauce makes ample so you can stash some in the fridge for later. Cook once, eat twice.

A bowl of pureed pea soup with mint with a spoon resting in the bowl and a glass of wine, piece of bread, and pepper mill beside it.

Pureed Pea Soup with Mint4/20

Eating your vegetables has never been so easy--nor so enticing--as this simple, savvy, spring-y sweet pea soup.

Two plates topped with stir-fried cauliflower and garnished with cilantro.

Stir-Fried Cauliflower | Bong Cai Xao5/20

The complex, almost caramelized taste of this sweetly savory side illustrates why this just may be the year of the cauliflower.

Vegetable Broth6/20

Clobbered by a guilty conscience each time you let vegetables languish in the fridge? Yeah, us, too. Until this recipe.

A glass of green smooth and a second glass that is on its side with green smoothie poured out.

Green Smoothie7/20

Close your eyes and we swear you'd never guess this sweet, banana-y smoothie is suffused with good-for-you greens.

Two packets of steamed vegetables in parchment --asparagus and green beans--on a white plate

Steamed Vegetables in Parchment8/20

A savvy, sophisticated, eat-your-veggies strategy that works its stealthy charms on kids and adults alike. You're welcome.

Slow Cooker Chicken Stock9/20

Making stock from scratch was never difficult. And it just became even easier thanks to this simple yet perfect slow cooker approach.

A trussed classic roast chicken on a rack, set inside a skillet.

Classic Roast Chicken10/20

Succulent. Crisp-skinned. Simple. If that's what you seek in a roast hen, your search stops with this ooh- and aah-inducing technique.

Arugula, Fennel, and Orange Salad11/20

This salad, bright with arugula, fennel, and orange, is everything you need for a light lunch or side. It's peppery, sweet, licorice-y and oh-so-tempting.

A blue-rimmed porcelain bowl filled with carrot soup topped with chicken and thyme and a lemon wheel.

Carrot Soup with Leftover Turkey12/20

What's even more stunning about this soup than its vibrant hue and soulful taste is just how magnificently it serves as a vehicle for leftover roast turkey.

A salt-baked red snapper with all the flesh removed from the bones and a broken salt crust and knife beside the fish skeleton.

Salt-Baked Red Snapper | Lubina a la Sel13/20

Bury a whole snapper in a heap of wet salt. Shove it in the oven. Then forget about it. Your reward for so little effort? The sweetest, most tender fish you'll ever experience.

Florets of spicy roasted cauliflower on a baking sheet with squeezed lime wedges and a bowl of green sauce beside them.

Spicy Roasted Cauliflower14/20

So good even a non-cauliflower-eater will change his or her mind. That's what folks are saying about this recipe.

A grated carrot salad piled on a wooden cutting board with two lemon wedges.

Grated Carrot Salad15/20

Yoohoo, you who's trying to eat more healthfully, start cramming carrots in your pieholes with this satisfying little number.

A perfect fried egg in a small black skillet.

How To Make The Perfect Fried Egg16/20

The perfect egg fried sunnyside up, boasting a white that's neither overly crisp at the edges and a yolk that's justifiably jiggly.

A white plate with a piece of pan-seared Moroccan salmon on a bed of orange slices, red onion, and greens with three black olives on the side.

Pan-Seared Moroccan Salmon17/20

These sexy salmon fillets have got "come hither" appeal in spades thanks to a citrusy lilt and a beguiling blend of spices.

A grey bowl filled with roasted radishes, sprinkled with thyme.

Roasted Radishes18/20

Roasting these rotund little root veggies turns them docile as anything dug out of the ground can be. Consider them to be dirt candy.

A pot of rosemary infused tea with rosemary sprigs sticking out the top and a glass beside it.

A tisane is essentially an infusion of herbs, flowers, or leaves, much like herbal tea. Here, take a sip of soothing rosemary and sweet, sweet honey and tell us it's not like an instant spa treatment.