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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.

Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever?

Asian-Inspired Chicken Soup

Breakfast Parfait

Autumn Chicken Stew

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.

Greek Muffin-Tin Omelets with Feta & Peppers

Savory Oatmeal with Cheddar, Collards & Eggs

Cocoa-Chia Pudding with Raspberries

Baby Kale Breakfast Salad with Quinoa & Strawberries

23 Breakfast Recipes to Boost Immunity

Boost your immune system with these nutrient-packed breakfast recipes. Your immune system needs nutrients like vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, protein and zinc to function properly and keep you healthy. Recipes like Savory Oatmeal with Cheddar, Collards & Eggs and Avocado & Kale Omelet will provide at least 20 percent of two or more of these nutrients. Start your day off deliciously and healthy!

Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup with Kale

Turkey, Pasta & Vegetable Soup

Vegan Minestrone Soup

Cream of Broccoli Soup

30 Soup Recipes to Help Boost Your Immunity

The best way to stay healthy is through frequent hand-washing and avoiding sick people. It’s also important to stay hydrated and load up on certain nutrients like the ones found in these soup recipes. Your immune system needs nutrients like vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and zinc, to keep you healthy and these soup recipes contain at least 20 percent of two or more of these vital nutrients. Recipes like Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup with Kale and Vegan Gnocchi Soup are comforting and healthy.

Wilted Greens with Warm Apple Vinaigrette

Massaging kale, curly endive and Brussels sprouts then tossing with a warm dressing wilts them slightly for a more tender bite.

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Sheet-Pan Balsamic-Parmesan Chicken & Vegetables

This flavorful dish--with the combination of balsamic vinegar and Parmesan cheese--makes a great weeknight meal since it requires little legwork (and only one pan!). The marjoram adds a distinct earthy aroma. If you don't have marjoram in your spice arsenal, you can use dried oregano instead. Both have a woodsy flavor that complements the dish beautifully.

Bitter Greens Salad with Soppressata & Pecorino

This bitter green salad turns the bland lunch salad on its head with its Mediterranean flair. Quickly charring radicchio and toasting dried oregano adds complex flavor, and slightly spicy soppressata pairs especially well with the sweetness of marinated cherry peppers. Pecorino Romano has a tangier, saltier taste than Parmesan, so just a bit provides the salad with plenty of nutty, sharp flavor. This salad can easily be made into a main course or served as a substantial side dish.

No-Peel Slow-Cooker Marinara Sauce

Store-bought pasta sauce just can't compare to homemade marinara--and the slow cooker makes marinara from scratch much easier. This fresh tomato recipe was developed to preserve the summer bounty from your garden or farmers' market; it freezes well for up to 6 months so you can pull out pasta or pizza sauce anytime. Keeping the skins on makes it even easier, plus they contain pectin, which helps thicken the sauce.

Slow-Roasted Tomatoes

Slowly cooking summer-ripe tomatoes in a low oven makes them candy-sweet. Turn to this recipe to preserve the summer bounty from your garden or farmers' market; it freezes well for up to 6 months. Tuck these tasty bites into sandwiches; stir them into risotto; or chop them and mix with Kalamata olives, olive oil and fresh herbs to scoop up with pita chips.

Peperonata

Sweet peppers are the name of the game here, but tossing a few hot ones into the mix would be nice as well. This recipe was developed to preserve the summer bounty from your garden or farmers' market; it freezes well for up to 3 months. Try this mélange of peppers, tomatoes and onions with a plate of cheese and crackers; toss it with pasta and chopped herbs; or pile it on grilled chicken and melt some fontina on top.

Overnight Quinoa Pudding

This quick and easy recipe blends quinoa and chia seeds for a protein-packed dessert or grab-and-go breakfast. This recipe uses kefir rather than milk for a probiotic boost and instead of refined sugar, this pudding relies on maple syrup for its sweetness. Prep time is minimal--just leave the mixture in the refrigerator overnight to firm up.

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Vegan Mushroom Bolognese

This Bolognese sauce recipe is adapted from Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. We swap out the beef and pork for button mushrooms to keep this traditional comfort food vegan yet weighty with umami flavor. And while some recipes call for red wine, this recipe sticks with Hazan's white wine selection.

Chicken Hummus Bowls

The spiced chicken atop these bowls is ready fast with the help of the broiler. Serve with warm whole-wheat pita for scooping up extra hummus at the bottom of the bowl.

Green Spinach Superfood Shots

Spinach, celery and apples pack a nutritional punch in this green superfood shot. Spinach is rich in vitamin A, folate, calcium and iron, and pairing it with vitamin C-rich lemon juice helps your body absorb the iron from the leafy greens. Apples hold a lot of their cancer-fighting antioxidants in the peel, and while you may glaze over celery juice, the crisp green stalks contain the antioxidant apigenin, which can promote the death of cancerous cells, according to lab research.

Spinach, Peanut Butter & Banana Smoothie

Peanut butter and banana is a classic combo that's even more delicious with the addition of tangy probiotic-rich kefir. Plus, this peanut butter banana smoothie helps you up your veggie servings for the day with a bit of mild-flavored spinach mixed in.

Mango Raspberry Smoothie

A squeeze of lemon juice adds bright flavor to this frozen fruit smoothie. Mango provides plenty of sweetness without having to add juice, but if it's too tart for you, a touch of agave will do the trick.

Koji-Brined Pork Shoulder

Shio koji is a fermented mixture of grain inoculated with mold (koji), water and salt that is used in marinades and brines. Chef Ben Bebenroth of Cleveland's Spice Catering loves how it gives this pork shoulder recipe funky umami flavor, while also helping to tenderize the meat. Miso, which also contains koji, is an easier-to-find substitute. Serve with Ginger Pickled Carrots (see Associated Recipe)--their acidity balances the richness of the dish.

Spicy Eggplant & Shishitos

Ben Bebenroth, chef and owner of Cleveland's farm-to-table Spice Catering, likes to make this sauté with Ichiban eggplant, which is a long, slender variety with thin skin that he grows on his farm.

Shaved Summer Squash Salad with Ricotta Salata & Charred Fennel

While spinach is a good leafy substitute for the sorrel in this salad, Ben Bebenroth, chef and owner of Cleveland's farm-to-table Spice Catering, sometimes uses thinly sliced raw rhubarb to mimic sorrel's tangy flavor in this summer squash salad.

Chopped Salad with Cornbread Croutons

At Handsome Hog, his restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, Justin Sutherland offers this chopped salad topped with any barbecued meat on the menu. The chef recommends brisket--it takes this already Southern-inspired salad a step further.

Build-Your-Own Grilled Cheese

It's called a grilled cheese, so why not make it on the grill? Multiply this recipe by the number of people you're serving, then set out all the toppings and let everyone make their own creations.

Grilled Peach & Brie Smothered Chicken

This super-fast and healthy smothered chicken tastes best on the deck with a chilled glass of gewürztraminer. The fruity white pairs nicely with the peaches here.

Peanut Zucchini Noodle Salad with Chicken

You'll end up with more peanut sauce than you need in this zucchini noodle recipe, and that's a good thing! It makes a great dip or stir-fry sauce.

Grilled Flank Steak & Corn with Green Goddess Butter

An herbaceous butter turns grilled sweet corn into a rave-worthy accompaniment to simple grilled flank steak.