Healthy Cooking Methods & Style Recipes

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

From homemade nut butters to easy dips, a food processor can create creamy goodness in just minutes. And if you’re wanting to use if for more than just accompaniments, we’ve got you covered with recipes for everything from curry to chocolate pudding. Put your newest kitchen gadget to good use with these easy, tasty food-processor recipes.

A cast-iron skillet is a versatile and useful tool to add to your kitchen inventory and is great for getting creative with one-pot meals. Who can say no to delicious recipes like BBQ Chicken Skillet Pizza or Skillet Chicken Parmesan? Your new skillet will help make dinner time delicious with simple, easy recipes the whole family will love. Here are our best cast-iron skillet recipes to try!

Instant Pots are great for making a healthy, delicious dinner quickly and easily. From Vegetarian Chili to Beef Bourguignon, the possibilities with this appliance are almost as numerous as its functions. Try some of these fast and easy recipes for inspiration to become an Instant Pot pro.

A Vitamix is one of our favorite kitchen appliances with its versatile functions that are easy to use. If you just got your first Vitamix, you’re in luck! Here are 20 of our best blender recipes—including smoothies, soups, muffins and lattes—to help you put your newest kitchen appliance to good use.

The weekend is a great time to try baking and these simple recipes are the perfect place to start. Whether you bake some muffins or bagels for breakfast or are looking for a sweet dessert, these recipes are easy and delicious. Recipes like Brownie Cookies, Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins and Strawberry-Oat Streusel Bars are tasty, filling and a fun project for this weekend.