Healthy Recipes

Looking for healthy meal ideas? We've got recipes and tips for your healthy appetite. Try our good-for-you breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack recipes, including chicken, bread, salad, and dessert.

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Brussels-Sprout Tacos

Roasted Brussels sprouts are a great vitamin-and-mineral-rich vegetarian taco filling. Here we pair them with avocado they make for a delicious addition to the taco-night menu. 
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Ginger-Lemongrass Broth with Noodles, Silken Tofu, and Broccoli

Cozy up with this warming, Southeast-Asian-inspired soup that features a lemongrass-scented broth, silken tofu, and tender noodles. To ward away any sign of a cold, a serving of vitamin C-packed broccolini is stirred in at the end.

Roasted Broccoli with Seeds and Feta

For a broccoli side dish that’s all grown up, embrace this brassica's best qualities, like its grassy, earthy sweetness, via the flavor-concentrating powers of a hot oven. Place a crown on the finished florets in the form of briny chunks of feta cheese and a bold blend of sesame, poppy, and sunflower seeds along with cumin.

Three Healthy Carrot Recipes That Are Just What the Doctor Ordered

Get a boost of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties from these three colorful carrot-centric recipes.
ByClaire Sullivan

6 Healthy Baked Treats That Actually Taste Good (From Martha's Latest Book!)

Yes, you can bake better-for-you cakes, cookies, and breads without sacrificing on flavor! The trick is to incorporate less-processed grains and natural sweeteners. Not only do they enhance the taste of otherwise classic recipes, but they also impart a more interesting texture. These recipes are just a few of the wholesome sweet and savory treats waiting for you (along with all kinds of healthy baking tips) in Martha's latest cookbook, "A New Way to Bake."

Why Sweet Potato Toast Should Be the New Avocado Toast

This gluten-free breakfast idea is sure to become your new favorite.
ByEmbry Roberts

Easy Creamed Spinach

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Our take on the classic creamed spinach side dish uses fresh spinach and cream cheese as a thickener. It's a crowd pleasing recipe that's popular with both young and old.

Quick Strawberry Jam

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Making your own strawberry jam is as easy as one-two-three. The only ingredients you need to make this recipe are whole, hulled strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice. For a quick breakfast or snack, toast slices of country-style bread and top with ricotta cheese and a dollop of jam.

Cauliflower-and-Chickpea Pitas with Creamy Yogurt Sauce

Eating more plant-based meals just got easier, and even healthier. This falafel-inspired pita sandwich gets its crunch from chickpeas that are roasted, not fried. A bright, zippy lime-jalapeño yogurt sauce is drizzled on right before digging in and compliments both the crunchy chickpeas and spiced roasted cauliflower. 
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Tomato-Eggplant Gnocchi

A hearty but not-too-heavy, one-skillet summer dinner that's vegetarian too. Storebought gnocchi cook atop an eggplant and tomato sauce. Red pepper flakes give the dish a touch of heat that's tempered by creamy ricotta when served.
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Bechamel Sauce for Lasagna Bolognese

Use this lush white sauce to make our Lasagna Bolognese.

Strawberry Preserves

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Preserves are exactly that, a delicious way to preserve berries' warm-weather flavor. Making jam can even put to use fruit that is slightly past its prime.
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Our Favorite Spinach Pasta Recipes Will Help You Add More Greens to Your Weeknight Dinners
Much as we love a spinach salad, we firmly believe that the best vehicle for spinach is pasta. The green leaves wilt down and heat up in mere minutes, providing bright color, a smooth texture, and an abundance of nutrients that will truly level up your pasta game.  How does spinach improve your dish's nutritional value? It's an extremely nutrient-dense ingredient, meaning it's low in calories but high in beneficial nutrients, including iron, calcium, zinc, and vitamins A, C, K, and B9 (otherwise known as folate). And if all that isn't enough to make you see that spinach is a powerhouse, don't forget that this leafy green vegetable provides tons of fiber and antioxidants, too. Spinach is also an accessible ingredient—it's available frozen, fresh, and canned—so you can always keep some on hand. And you can easily use it in one of our spinach pasta recipes for dinner tonight.
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Roasted Cabbage Wedges
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Baked Potato Slices
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Chocolate Souffle
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Soufflés have a reputation for being temperamental, but they're actually very simple. They get their signature height from stiffly beaten egg whites. Using a few staple ingredients, you can whip up a chocolate dessert that's guaranteed to impress at a dinner party yet easy enough for a casual supper.

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Carrot Puree

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All it takes is a sprinkling of salt and pepper to enhance the earthy flavors of the carrots in this simple side dish.

Russian Dressing

Try this Russian dressing recipe in a Turkey Reuben.

Grilled-Asparagus, Tomato, and Fontina Pizzette

A quick turn on the grill gives homemade pizza dough a pillowy texture and an irresistible char. Here, the pie is topped with gooey fontina, flame-kissed asparagus and scallions, and fresh tomatoes and thyme.

Black Bean, Cucumber, and Feta Salad

Pressure-cooked black beans (time to break out that Instant Pot!) meet cool cucumbers and bright cilantro, lime, and feta in this refreshing side dish that's ideal year-round. This recipe appears in our cookbook "Martha Stewart's Pressure Cooker" (Clarkson Potter).

Quick Sauerkraut

This easy-to-make sauerkraut is a tasty hot dog topping. Use it to make our Classic Reubens and Pierogi with Sauerkraut and Mushrooms.

Instant Pot Brisket

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Cozy up to homemade brisket in no time with this recipe that uses the pressure cooking function on your multicooker. With tender slices of brisket, sweet sautéed onions, and perfectly cooked carrots and potatoes, this delivers all of the favorite flavors of a traditional braise in half the time. 
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Instant Pot Caramelized Onions

Say goodbye to an hour spent hovering over the stove perfecting sweet, buttery onions. This recipe uses an Instant Pot to speed up the process and paves the way for French onion soup, omelets, sandwiches and sausage toppings all week.
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Weeknight Vegetarian Chili

Weeknight comfort foods like this one-pan quick chili are a great entryway into eating a more plant-based diet. Switching from a pot to a skillet slashed the cooking time in half for this recipe, and the wider pan surface lets spices and aromatics meld quickly for deep complexity.
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Braised Red Cabbage with Apple and Onion

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This side goes well with roasted pork or turkey.

Scalloped Potatoes

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This scalloped potatoes recipe is a traditional recipe that can be prepped the night before serving. Creamy with a cheesy topping, scalloped potatoes can easily play side dish to almost any main course. Serve scalloped potatoes with your favorite meat and watch your family fall in love.

Mushroom and Black Bean Tortilla Casserole

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Sauteed mushrooms, cooked black beans, and store-bought salsa are layered with corn tortillas in a baking dish to create this Tex-Mex-inspired casserole.

Broccoli, Lemon, and Gouda Pizzas

Here, the classic white pie goes green in the most delicious way: charred broccoli florets and paper-thin slices of lemon meld with sharp gouda and nutty Parmesan cheeses to make this gourmet-level pizza at home. The pizza dough will need 1 to 2 hours to rise, so plan accordingly. Alternatively, you can make the dough the day before and let it rise overnight in the fridge. 

Roasted Peppers with Garlic and Herbs

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This side pairs well with London broil, lamb burgers, or grilled chicken.

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

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This classic potato dish is always on everyone's favorites list for a Thanksgiving side.

Sour Cherry Preserves

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Tart fruit makes wonderful jam to enjoy all year long.

Grilled Corn with Chile-Lime Salt

A sprinkling of homemade chile-lime salt and grated Parmesan brings the summertime classic of grilled corn with butter to a sublime new level.

Loaded Baked Sweet Potatoes

This plant-powered lunch is packed with healthy fats from avocado and fiber-packed ingredients like sweet potatoes and black beans. It will fuel your afternoon and keep you sated until dinnertime. 
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Traditional Eggplant Parmigiana

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Layers of rich red sauce, meaty fried eggplant, and melted cheese... Are you hungry yet? Our method for eggplant parmigiana is sure to satisfy.

Grilled Zucchini with Miso

A hearty, healthy summer side of thick-sliced zucchini brushed with a miso-soy glaze, then grilled. The result is deep umami richness.

Spinach Lasagna

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Traditional lasagna goes vegetarian when you substitute the meat for vegetables like spinach and zucchini. Layer this spinach lasagna with 3 types of cheese and bechamel sauce. You won't even miss the meat.

Honey-Roasted Vegetables

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Honey glazes this simple side dish of roasted sweet potatoes, carrots, and parsnips with sweetness and sheen. Walnut halves and thyme sprigs roast along with the vegetables for additional fall flavor.

Caramelized Shallots

Leftover shallots will keep for several days in the refrigerator and can be used in omelets, pizzas, sautes, and sandwiches.

Perfect Mashed Potatoes

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Instant potatoes from the box can't compare to this homemade version.

Biryani Spice Blend

Use this fragrant mix of spices to make Martha's Beef Biryani.
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