Healthy Dinner Ideas – 15+ Healthy Recipes For All Diets
These healthy dinner ideas are easy, healthy, and very tasty recipes that you can make for a simple dinner or to impress your guests.
You’ll find my best keto, healthy, vegan, or gluten-free dinner options. All you have to do is to pick what’s best for you!
What Are Healthy Dinner Ideas?
Healthy Dinners are delicious recipes made with classic, wholesome ingredients that are fulfilling and simple instructions.
They are healthy dinner options because none of them are loaded with sugar, complicated, or refined ingredients.
But these recipes don’t skimp on taste and flavor!
So choose your cuisine, pick between one course, two courses, or three courses, and get ready to cook something delicious!
Why You Need Healthy Dinner Recipes
These healthy dinner ideas are some of my favorite dinner recipes.
You’ll find a combination of keto-friendly, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, diabetic-friendly, and nut-free recipes.
Most of these recipes can be made in less than 40 minutes, cooking included so you won’t spend your evening in the kitchen.
They are dinner ideas that the whole family and your guest will love, and I’m sure they’ll ask for the recipe!
1. Healthy Keto Dinner Ideas
Summer BBQ Keto Dinner
If you need a quick Barbecue-friendly keto dinner that you can eat with your finger, combine my Zucchini Boats with my keto chicken nuggets.
Keto Chinese Dinner
To make your own Panda Express-style dinner, you can make my Keto Orange Chicken. It taste just like classic orange chicken without the carbs.
I love to make it with my coconut cauliflower rice. There’s something about this that turn any Chinese Keto dinner into a real experience.
Healthy Southern Comfort Dinner
For a banger of a keto dinner with all the flavors of the Amercian south, combine my much-loved Keto Jambalaya with a hearty smoked cauliflower.
Keto Mexican Dinner
For an authentic Mexican food taste without the carbs, I make my Corn Tortilla that I fill with Guacamole, Salsa, and chicken cooked in my taco spices, and I add a side of Beef Empanadas.
Winter Keto Dinner Idea
For a heart-warming winter dinner, I recommend combining my keto chicken marsala with my French Green Beans.
Dipping the green beans in the creamy Marsala mushroom sauce is the best. And if you’re still hungry, add a French Onion Soup!
Keto Italian Dinner
For a keto Italian dinner, start with Keto Spaghetti And Meatballs and top it up with my delicious Focaccia.
Healthy Keto Asian Dinner
This is the keto version of your classic Asian takeaway dinner. Black Pepper Angus Steak with Keto Rice.
Enjoy the same taste without the carbs.
2. Vegan Dinner Ideas
Healthy Italian Dinner
For a simple, healthy Italian vegan dinner, I recommend combining my Zucchini Noddles with my vegan bread loaf. The bread is made with healthier flour: almond flour and coconut flour.
Healthy Indian Dinner
For a delicious healthy Indian dinner, I recommend combining the following recipes. The cauliflower rice, naan bread, and vegan curry are the perfect match.
Together, they taste delicious and will impress your guests.
Healthy French Vegan Dinner
This healthy French dinner is made of several typically French recipes. The combination of the mustard Brussels Sprout with the French Fries is perfect.
Add to that a healthier French baguette to finish the sauce, and you’ll be in Paris.
3. Healthy Gluten-Free Dinner Ideas
Healthy Pasta Dinner
My first choice is to make a delicious Steak Alfredo Fettuccine with its Marinade. The pasta are gluten-free pasta, and the steak is cooked to perfection.
Healthy Pizza Dinner
Then, one of my family’s favorite dinners – and many others’ – is a good pizza.
Make the following Buffalo Chicken Pizza to feed a crowd! With a gluten-free pizza base, it’s absolutely delicious!
4. Healthy Classic Dinners
Classic Healthy French Dinner
A classic French Dinner combines savory and sweet. It starts with vegetables,
Classic Healthy Italian Dinner
A classic healthy Italian dinner is full of taste, creamy texture, and colors. They are typically made with tomatoes, meat, and vegetables..
Healthy Summer Dinner
A good healthy summer dinner is made with a good meat like pork or turkey and healthy veggies.
Healthy Winter Dinner
Making a healthy winter dinner is easy and typically contains slow-cooked casseroles and heart-warming dishes.
Quick Healthy Dinner
If you need a quick dinner for weeknights, try this one. It’s the perfect combination of healthy ingredients and quick turnaround for weeknight dinners.
Best Healthy Meal Prep Dinner
When you need to prepare several days of dinners at once, you need to try this meal. It’s made with just a two recipes for many dinners and desserts.
Frequently Asked Questions
The healthiest dinner food is a combination of all macro-ingredient groups (about 60% calories from carbs, 20% from fat, 20% from protein, or if you are on a keto diet, about 20% from protein, 70% from fat, and 10% from carbs.
Then it’s essential to include veggies, nuts, seeds, grains, and fruits as much as possible to bring various vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids.
It’s also crucial to vary your dinners. Having the very same healthy dinner every nights becomes unhealthy because of the repetition and lack of variety.
The protein in your dinners can come from meat, fish like salmon, seafood like shrimps, or from legumes like black beans or edamame beans.
Easy dinners can be as simple as a black beans soup or a Chicken Bacon Ranch Casserole, but it can also be a Sweet Potato Puree with Cast-Iron Chicken Breast.
Try any of the dinners above! They are a combination of a main dish with a healthy side dish that bring a good balance of micronutrients and macronutrients.
Loosing weight is a matter of reducing the total caloric intake. As a result, skipping dinner can theoretically suffice.
However it would be necessary to not balance the intake to other meals.
As a result, most dietitian recommend not skipping meals but rather reducing potion size and including more vegetables and protein.
The best healthy dinner is a balanced combination of about 60% calories from carbs (present in vegetables, pasta, bread, rice, etc.), 20% fat (coming from meat, oil, butter, some vegetables, whole grains, and seeds), and 20% protein (sourced in meat, seafood, fish, legumes).
It also contains various micronutrients like vitamins, minerals and fatty acids.
About The Author
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.
I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!
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