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Healthy Cooking Methods & Style Recipes

Explore methods for healthy cooking including grilling, baking, one-pot meals and crockpot recipes. Healthier recipes, from the food and nutrition experts at EatingWell.

Slow-Cooker Honey-Orange Drumsticks

This sticky honey-orange slow-cooker chicken recipe is a great alternative to traditional barbecue and can be made right in your crock pot for an easy potluck recipe.

Slow-Cooker Honey-Orange Drumsticks

5 Tips for How to Cook Grilled Vegetable

Move over, meat: it’s time to grill some vegetables. Use these tips to cook delicious grilled vegetables.

5 Tips for How to Cook Grilled Vegetable

How to Marinate Chicken

Take a look in your pantry: You can throw together a flavorful rub or marinade in minutes. That's all you need to take chicken breast from flat to bodacious!

How to Marinate Chicken

Slow-Cooker Vegetarian Lasagna

Sure, the slow cooker's great for stews and soups, but it also happens to make a mean lasagna! In this ingenious slow-cooker recipe, all you have to do is chop your veggies, then layer the ingredients (raw) into the crockpot. Serve with: Garlic bread and a green salad.

Skillet Gnocchi with Chard & White Beans

In this one-skillet supper, we toss dark leafy greens, diced tomatoes and white beans with gnocchi and top it all with gooey mozzarella. Serve with a mixed green salad with vinaigrette.

Balsamic & Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower

Roasting isn't usually the first cooking method you think of for cauliflower but the results are quite delicious. The florets are cut into thick slices and tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and herbs. Wherever the flat surfaces come into contact with the hot roasting pan, a deep browning occurs that results in a sweet, nutty flavor.

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Use-All-the-Broccoli Stir-Fry

Spiralized broccoli stems transform into tender "noodles" in this lo mein-inspired vegetarian recipe. Serve on top of brown rice or buckwheat soba noodles.

One-Pot Italian Sausage & Kale Pasta

For a fast weeknight pasta dinner, why not cook your sauce and pasta all at once? By using the exact amount of water you need to cook the pasta--no colanders here--the starch that cooks off into your pasta water, which you usually drain away, stays in the pot, giving you delectably creamy results.

Apple Puffed Oven Pancake

Mushroom-Sauced Pork Chops

Fireside Fajitas

Breakfast Skillet Hash

Healthy Recipes for Cast-Iron Skillets

Use your cast-iron skillet in these delicious cast-iron recipes for dinner, side dishes and desserts.

Raspberry-Peach-Mango Smoothie Bowl

Avocado Toast with Burrata

Southwestern Salad with Black Beans

Smoky Artichoke-Sardine Salad

Healthy Recipes for One Serving

Make a perfectly portioned meal with these healthy breakfast recipes, dinner recipes, snack recipes and dessert recipes that serve one. If you’re cooking for yourself or trying to keep your portions in check, preparing a meal that makes only one serving is important. Try these recipes that make one serving for a delicious and healthy meal.

Southwestern Layered Bean Dip

Sweet Potatoes with Warm Black Bean Salad

Microwave Potato Chips

Healthy Recipes for Your Microwave

Your microwave isn't just for making popcorn or reheating leftovers anymore. From melting chocolate to cooking vegetables, your microwave is a value and time-saving tool in the kitchen. These healthy recipes for dinner, desserts, snacks and side dishes can be made strictly in your microwave. Try making a healthy recipe in your microwave today!

Chicken & Sweet Potato Grill Packets with Peppers & Onions

Steak & Potato Grill Packets with Blue Cheese & Rosemary

Cabbage & Smoked Sausage Grill Packets with Caraway

Cajun Shrimp Grill Packets with Tomatoes & Okra

Healthy Packet Recipes & Foil Packet Recipes for Easy Weeknight Dinners

Cooking seafood, chicken and vegetables “en papillote” or in parchment-paper packets and foil packets is an easy way to ensure tender and juicy results. Steaming fish en papillote, as well as steaming chicken and steaming vegetables in packets, traps in flavor, whether you cook the paper packets in the oven or grill foil packets. Our easy packet recipes use a fuss-free technique to ensure a healthy dinner packed with tender meat, healthy vegetables and flavorful juices.

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Kimchi Shrimp Cup of Noodles

Creamy Blueberry-Pecan Overnight Oatmeal

Southwestern Three-Bean & Barley Soup Mix

Strawberry & Yogurt Parfait

Incredible Recipes You Can Make in a Mason Jar

We love mason jars, because they are multi-purpose and can be used for so many different things, are easy to clean and great to re-use. Shake up a healthy salad dressing, bring a jar of homemade cup of noodles to work, make your morning oatmeal in a jar the night before or even use your jars as a pretty serving vessel for chocolate mousse. Here are our some of our favorite ideas for recipes in a mason jar.

Sheet-Pan Sesame Chicken & Broccoli with Scallion-Ginger Sauce

Sheet-Pan Creole Chicken & Shrimp

Sheet-Pan Maple-Mustard Pork Chops & Carrots

Sheet-Pan Chicken Fajita Bowls

Easy Sheet-Pan Dinners

Think baking sheets are just for cookies? Think again. With these healthy one-pan dinner recipes, you can make a stir-fry in the oven or roast chicken with Brussels sprouts. You'll need one or two rimmed baking sheets (the rim corrals the food when you stir everything), but in a pinch a metal 9-by-13-inch pan will work just fine. Crank up the oven and heat up the sheets: it's time to re-imagine quick dinners.

Avocado Fries with Sriracha Aioli

Oven-Fried Pickles

Soy-Lime Baked Buffalo Wings

The Best Healthy Fried Food Makeover Recipes

Ditch the deep fryer, and instead oven "fry" your favorite foods for much healthier results. Here are EatingWell's best oven-baked recipes, including classic onion rings, crispy chicken nuggets, and avocado-fries.

Dijon Chicken with Roasted Broccoli & Butternut Squash

Precubed butternut squash is a timesaver in this easy baked chicken recipe. Look for it in the produce section.

Polenta Pizza with Mushrooms & Arugula Salad

This healthy homemade pizza for two is small enough that it can be made in the toaster oven, if your toaster oven has a "broil" function.

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Baked Halibut with Brussels Sprouts & Quinoa

Fish plus two sides? It seems fancy but this healthy dinner comes together in just 30 minutes.

Quick Meatball Banh Mi Sandwich

Quick-pickled vegetables and an easy Sriracha-mayo sauce lend Vietnamese flavors to this meatball sandwich recipe. If you can't find long whole-wheat sandwich rolls, you can use 5-inch slices of a soft whole-wheat baguette from the bakery.

Polenta Cakes with Poached Eggs & Avocado

Precooked polenta makes this savory healthy breakfast a breeze. Serving the easy poached eggs on a bed of arugula is a wonderful way to get a head start on your daily vegetable intake.

Baked Turkey Meatballs with Roasted Red Peppers & Polenta

These healthy turkey meatballs take a little more time, but the recipe yields enough extra meatballs and polenta for three other meals (see Associated Recipes).

Winter Kale & Quinoa Salad with Avocado

Precooked quinoa helps keep this healthy salad recipe quick and simple. Loaded with black beans, kale, and avocado, this recipe is as filling as it is nutritious. You can also make the sweet potatoes and dressing ahead.

Caprese Avocado Toast

Tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil--the building blocks of caprese salad--lend a creative twist to a standard avocado toast recipe.

Instant Pot Beef Bourguignon

Use your Instant Pot as a pressure cooker for this easy beef bourguignon recipe. If desired, serve this stew with whole-wheat egg noodles to soak up the delicious sauce.

Instant Pot Chicken Soup with Root Vegetables & Barley

Be sure to use bone-in chicken here--it enhances the flavor of the broth, and the bones are easy to remove after cooking. This healthy chicken soup can be made in an Instant Pot or pressure cooker.

Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges with Cilantro-Almond Pesto

Nutty toasted almonds combine with cilantro in a simple pesto that tops tender roasted sweet potato wedges. A squeeze of lime adds brightness and character.

Coconut-Curry Cod Stew with Sweet Potato & Rice

This hearty coconut curry is warm and comforting, thanks to tender sweet potatoes and a hint of spice. This easy curry recipe can be on the table in less than an hour.

Sweet Potato Soup with Crispy Tortilla Topping

This easy tortilla soup is a satisfying vegetarian riff on the classic dish. Make this a vegan tortilla soup by using vegetable broth and omitting the queso fresco topping.

Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Chili

Sweet potatoes pair wonderfully with this simple chili recipe. Add one more chipotle pepper if you want to spice up this healthy sweet potato recipe.

Kale & Roasted Sweet Potato Hash

This one-pan hash makes an easy fall dinner or a simple dish for a healthy brunch. You can even poach the eggs ahead of time--slip them into steaming-hot water to rewarm them just before serving.

Chipotle Turkey Tostadas

Try this creative, delicious way to use up your Thanksgiving leftovers. This recipe shows you how to make tostada shells from corn tortillas. Think of a tostada as an open-face taco: a crispy corn tortilla smothered in toppings.

Turkey, Pesto & Broccoli Pasta

This easy pasta recipe is a weeknight dinner lifesaver. While shelf-stable pesto will work here, we prefer the fresh flavor and more vibrant color of refrigerated pesto. Look for it in the refrigerated section of your supermarket, near the fresh pasta and marinara sauce.

Herb-Roasted Turkey Breast with Garlic

Bone-in, skin-on turkey breasts, also called split breasts, are inexpensive, flavorful, and nice for (just enough) leftovers. Try this any time of year!

Curry-Cashew Turkey Salad Sandwiches

Hot curry powder (sometimes labeled as Madras curry powder) gives this healthy sandwich a kick. For a mellower flavor, you can use regular or mild curry powder in its place.

Turkey & Wild Rice Soup with Vegetables

Thanksgiving turkey leftovers have never been so delicious. Wild rice adds a nutty flavor--plus extra protein and fiber--to this creamy, hearty soup. Try this easy, healthy turkey recipe to help you use your holiday extras.