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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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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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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.

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Air-Fryer Brussels Sprouts

These super-crispy and browned air-fryer Brussels sprouts with sweet onions and salty bacon--all amped up with bright lemon juice--are sure to be a hit, whether you serve them for a weeknight side dish or as part of your holiday spread for Thanksgiving. This recipe makes enough to serve eight but is easily halved, though once you taste it you may well want a double serving. And if you prefer a vegetarian side, simply omit the bacon.

Slow-Cooker Turkey Breast

Making turkey breast in the slow cooker guarantees moist, juicy meat every time. And it creates intensely flavorful drippings for homemade gravy. This slow-cooker turkey breast is perfect for Thanksgiving but it's easy enough that you can pull it together anytime you're in the mood for a turkey dinner (or a sandwich stuffed with leftover turkey).

Winter Greens Salad with Pomegranate & Kumquats

Kumquats deliver a piquant burst of citrus, especially when eaten skins, seeds and all. Here we toss them with a trio of greens for their vivid orange color as much as their zestiness. Pomegranate seeds and pistachios bring a jewellike finish.

Broccoli Rabe with Orange & Sesame

You can go without using oil if you are cooking broccoli rabe in the dry heat of a skillet. It adds a nice sear to the oranges as well. Seasoned with toasty sesame, this healthy vegetable side dish is an easy flavor upgrade.

Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Tequila Citrus Sauce

Pork shoulder makes a wonderful roast because it has enough fat to keep it moist and tender during low and slow cooking. The citrus sauce has a smoky, agave sweetness from the tequila and produces a bright counterpoint to the unctuous meat. Serve any extra sauce for dipping.

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Festive Brunch Mezcal Cocktail

Carrot juice adds a sweet and earthy counterpoint to the smoky mezcal.

Braised Brisket with Dried Fruit

This recipe features a brisket rub to rule all other brisket rubs. Covering the brisket with parchment paper before putting the lid on the pot is a classic French technique that creates a more richly flavored sauce.

Mini Feta & Potato Frittatas

These mini frittatas make a great breakfast or brunch for a crowd, and help keep portion size in check. Grate whole nutmeg on a microplane or box grater for the most fragrant results.

Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Green Horseradish Sauce

These roasted smashed potatoes show off all the goodness of russets: fluffy insides surrounded by shatteringly crisp skin. The easy horseradish sauce topping adds a delicious flavor boost.

Chicken & Vegetables with Creamy Coconut Noodles

Teach your kids about the power of aromatic compounds with this recipe: Adding coconut milk to the broth not only adds subtle coconut flavor, but the fat in the liquid also helps the ginger, lemongrass and basil "bloom," releasing even more tastiness.

Quinoa Avocado Salad with Buttermilk Dressing

Persimmons add sweetness to this tossed green salad that sports a healthy salad dressing. A sprinkling of crispy fried quinoa adds unexpected crunch, putting the salad over the top in the best way.

Sausage-Spiked Meatloaves

This Italian meatloaf riff uses sausage to boost its flavor. When you're already cooking meatloaf, it's not much more effort to prep a second meatloaf. The extra one makes a delicious day-after meal (see Tip for ideas for the leftovers) or freeze it for another time.

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Quick Kale Dolmas

For a quick version of stuffed grape leaves, we've put all the flavors of a traditional dolma recipe into a cooked filling that's simply wrapped in blanched kale leaves--no need to simmer for hours.

Mussels with White Beans & Tomatoes

Cooking mussels may seem intimidating, but here we've made it quick and easy. We've added white beans to turn this classic mussels-in-white-wine-sauce dish into a heartier weeknight meal. Serve with whole-grain crusty bread to sop up the flavorful broth.

Chicken Cacciatore Hoagies

This easy chicken cacciatore, the Italian braised hunter's dish, gets a touch of Philly when you turn it into a sandwich and call it a hoagie. This is a chicken sandwich recipe to remember.

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.

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.