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Healthy Immunity Recipes

Find delicious, healthy immunity recipes including breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Healthier recipes, from the food and nutrition experts at EatingWell.

What to Eat for Healthy Immunity

These nutrition tips and guidelines can help keep your immune system strong.

What to Eat for Healthy Immunity

5 Immunity-Boosting Foods & Nutrients

Find out which foods and nutrients bolster your immune system.

5 Immunity-Boosting Foods & Nutrients

Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever?

EatingWell nutrition editor, Brierley Wright, sifts through the science.

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Asian-Inspired Chicken Soup

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Healthy Recipes to Boost Immunity & Ward Off Colds

Stay healthy with our immunity-boosting recipes to ward off colds. These healthy recipes to boost immunity feature foods that can help ward off colds, such as chicken soup, yogurt, green tea and foods with soluble fiber, including apples, oats and beans. To keep your immune system strong, eat a variety of foods that provide vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients, particularly those rich in vitamin C, beta carotene and zinc. Stay healthy with our delicious and healthy recipes to boost immunity.

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Ginger-Beet Juice

Green Tea & Mango Splash

Citrus Berry Smoothie

Carrot-Orange Juice

Immunity-Boosting Drinks

Drink to your health during cold and flu season and load up on nutrientsincluding protein, vitamins A, C and E and zincthat your immune system needs to function properly. These healthy drink recipes will get you startedeach drink contains two or more of these nutrients.

Strawberry-Banana Protein Smoothie

Cantaloupe Smoothie

Mango-Passion Fruit Smoothie

Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

Immunity-Boosting Smoothies for Kids

Fruit-filled smoothies are a great way to help your kids get nutrients that keep their bodies healthy (especially during cold and flu season, when we could all use a little boost). These healthy smoothies contain two or more of the nutrients that their immune system needs to function properlyprotein, vitamins A, C and E and zinc.

Dilled Tuna & Potato Salad

This potato salad gets extra protein from hard-cooked eggs and canned tuna. Prep time is just 30 minutes but you'll want to chill the salad for at least four hours to let the lemon and dill flavors develop fully.

Corn-On-The-Cob Salad

Italian dressing seasons grilled corn, fresh tomatoes, and tender spinach in this side-dish recipe that's an obvious choice to serve at cookouts.

Caribbean Couscous Salad

Mango, bell peppers, and black beans combine with whole-wheat couscous in this Caribbean-inspired grain salad. The ginger-lime dressing has a touch of cayenne pepper and provides just the right amount of zing!

Grilled Peppered Pork Chops with Mediterranean Relish

There's a triple dose of pepper in this dish--hot pepper sauce in the pork chop marinade, and roasted red peppers (plus optional jalapeño peppers) in the relish. For a complete dinner, tuck some pita bread rounds on the grill and serve with the chops and relish.

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Pork with Fresh Corn Salad

In this healthy and quick recipe, slices of roasted pork tenderloin are served on a bed of baby spinach alongside a colorful salad of fresh corn kernels, jicama, and blackberries.

Pesto Shrimp Pasta

Using a packaged pesto sauce mix saves time in this 20-minute orzo pasta salad recipe.

Peanut & Shrimp Soup

This Moroccan-inspired soup is made with roasted butternut squash and tomatoes, flavored with creamy peanut butter, and topped with zesty shrimp and julienned carrots. It's a beautiful appetizer to serve to guests--and they'll love the taste!

Southwest Pasta Salad

Crunchy colorful vegetables are the highlight of this soutwestern-inspired pasta salad, which can be served at room temperature or chilled. The creamy dressing is made with spinach, cilantro and almonds, and has a touch of zesty crushed red pepper--be prepared for a flavor explosion in every bite!

Ravioli Salad

This simple chilled ravioli salad is bursting with vegetables--broccoli, carrots, tomato, and pea pods. It's a good choice for summer picnics or barbecues. Using purchased Italian salad dressing saves prep time, and you can easily substitute other reduced-calorie dressings to switch up the flavor.

Lentil Taco Salad

Lentils are ideal for cooking in the slow cooker. Start this recipe early in the morning and you and your family will be rewarded with a deliciously warm Mexican-inspired taco salad for dinner.

Very Veggie Smoothies

Adding leafy greens into your smoothie recipes is a great way to boost the nutrients in your diet. This smoothie is fruit-flavored with peach, banana and mango but it's got chard in it for added vitamins K, C, and A.

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Sautéed Spinach

This 15-minute spinach side dish is quick, simple, and oh-so delicious. Fresh spinach is wilted in batches with lemon peel, garlic, and chicken broth. Serve this to a vegan crowd by using vegetable broth.

Spinach Panini

This warm panini recipe is an easy choice when you're preparing lunch for four. Each sandwich is loaded with a full cup of spinach and flavorful basil and feta cheese--so tasty!

Salmon with Asparagus & Mushrooms

Mushrooms and salmon are both naturally high in vitamin D, so you get a double dose in this 45-minute dinner recipe.

Egg & Broccoli Slaw Wrap

Who doesn't love an egg salad sandwich for lunch? We've given this one a bit of a makeover by combining the egg salad with roasted red peppers and a yummy citrusy slaw and serving it in a rolled tortilla. Want to pack it for lunch? Simply wrap it tightly in waxed or parchment paper and then in plastic wrap. Transport it in an insulated lunch box with ice packs--it will hold for up to five hours!

Grilled Red Onion & Corn Salad with Roasted Red Pepper Vinaigrette

This diabetic side salad is bursting with colorful lettuce, grilled corn and crisp-tender green beans. The vinaigrette has a tantalizing flavor that's enhanced by the smoky grilled red peppers that are blended in with the oil and vinegar.

Apricot-Spinach Salad

This spinach salad has black beans which add fiber and protein. And there's a double dose of apricots--dried apricots in the salad provide fruity taste and nice texture and apricot nectar adds body to the ginger-soy dressing.

Pork Medallions with Lemon-Pecan Spinach

This simple pork dinner can serve as a casual family supper, but it's also great for entertaining. The spinach acts as the side dish, making this recipe a complete meal.

Pork Paprikash with Cauliflower "Rice"

Cut carbs and calories by using cauliflower "rice" instead of regular rice in this 30-minute pork paprikash recipe.

Peach & Spinach Salad with Feta

This simple and refreshing salad recipe takes just 15 minutes to prepare. Each bite delivers the taste of sweet juicy peach, tangy feta, and toasted pine nuts and will leave you completely satisfied--but not over-stuffed!