40+ Healthy Dinner Recipes

These Easy Healthy Dinner Recipes are delicious! Whether you’re cooking for two or cooking for a family there is a recipe for everyone!

If you’re wondering what should I make for dinner tonight – look no further. These healthy dinner recipes are for you. It can sometimes feel difficult to cook a delicious, fun and healthy meal that your family will love every day – but it doesn’t have to be!

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Eating healthy doesn’t have to take a ton of time, energy or money. These easy clean eating recipes are guaranteed to help you get dinner on the table.

This post is filled with healthy dinner ideas that will help you get dinner on the table!

We’ve got everything from Chicken Pot Pie Soup to Pulled Pork – all are healthy, easy recipes that anyone can master.

Healthy Chicken Dinner Recipes:

We love cooking with chicken during the week! It’s one of our favorite proteins. These healthy chicken dinner recipes are all easy to make and taste amazing! We get all of our chicken from ButcherBox. It’s so tender and has a minimal amount of fat on it!

Healthy Chicken Pot Pie Recipe is the perfect light dinner. Learn how to make chicken pot pie in under an hour for a delicious meal!

Lemon Chicken Soup is a delicious dinner. Easy to make in the instant pot, crockpot or on the stove. Lemony and healthy!

Healthy Orange Chicken (pictured above) is the most popular recipe on our site. Have you tried it?

Baked Chicken Tenders are a favorite in our house. You can’t go wrong with pairing them with our Healthy Baked French Fries!

Healthy Chicken Pot Pie Soup is SO cozy and delicious.

Chicken Vegetable Soup is loaded with veggies and packed with protein and can be made in your crockpot, instant pot, or on your stove!

Crockpot Whole Chicken is a must try. If you’re afraid of cooking a whole chicken, this recipe is basically fool proof!

White Bean Chicken Chili is easy and healthy. Make it in the crockpot, instant pot or on the stove for a delicious, protein packed dinner!

Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry is healthy and delicious. Gluten free and easily modified for a paleo/keto friendly dinner.

Baked Chicken Parmesan is so easy to make! Perfectly crispy, coated with a delicious sauce and cheese for a healthy dinner!

Buffalo Chicken Casserole is made with simple ingredients like potatoes & chicken in under an hour for an easy dinner. Quick, simple and delicious.

Healthy Turkey Dinners

We cook a lot of our meals with turkey! Turkey is great because it’s super lean and high in protein. It also has basically no flavor – so it’s easy to jazz up with spices and other add ins! Here are some of our favorite ways to cook with ground turkey.

Healthy Turkey Stir Fry is SO good. Make it with any extra veggies you have laying around in your fridge. It’s our favorite ‘clean out the fridge’ meal!

Healthy Turkey Meatballs are juicy while being low fat! Made without breadcrumbs, they’re keto, Whole30, paleo, gluten free and dairy free! A nutritious twist on a classic dish. 

Greek Turkey Meatballs are a favorite in our house. They’re keto friendly and great for meal prep!

Healthy Turkey Chili Is one of the most popular recipes on our site. So easy and yummy!

Healthy Buffalo Turkey Meatballs are one of my all time favorite recipes. We love anything with buffalo, and these are loaded with veggies. SO good!

Sweet Potato Turkey Burgers from Bucket List Tummy look delicious!

Health Fish Dinner Recipes 

We love cooking with seafood for light, fresh meals. Seafood is often high in protein and loaded with healthy fats (especially salmon!). Most of the recipes below are for salmon because it’s super easy and quick to cook. 

Chili Lime Shrimp are so quick and simple! You can make it on the grill or in a pan

Lemon Salmon is perfect for a quick dinner. Learn how to make lemon salmon in one pan that is healthy and delicious!

Asian Salmon is super flavorful and easy to make. We love it on a salad

Salmon Coconut Curry from Real Balanced looks easy and delicious – those are the best kind of meals!

Everything Bagel Salmon from Bites of Wellness – you can’t go wrong with Everything Bagel anything!

Ginger Salmon in Foil Packets from Delightful Plate looks delicious!

Cod with Tomatoes & Basil from Food Banjo is the perfect light + fresh dinner! 

Healthy Pork Dinner Recipes

Pork is another super lean, high protein meat. Pork tenderloins cook relatively quickly, making them perfect for a healthy weeknight dinner!

Citrus Grilled Pork Tenderloin is great for summer months on the grill. You can also bake it.

Healthy Crockpot Pulled Pork is always a crowd pleaser. Who doesn’t love pulled pork!? This version is lower in fat and whole30 friendly if you use a compliant BBQ sauce.

Apple Pork Tenderloin Sheet Pan Dinner is the perfect combo of sweet and savory. The apples pair so well with the pork tenderloin!

Healthy Beef Dinner Recipes

Red meat is high in iron and protein. While it often get’s a bad rep for being high in fat – we love to enjoy beef in moderation. Our favorite beef is from ButcherBox. It’s grass fed + grass finished. 

Paleo Beef Stew = total comfort food. So easy to make in your crockpot!

Taco Soup has all the delicious flavors of tacos in a soup! Make it in the crock pot, instant pot or on the stove. Perfect for a quick healthy dinner!

Vegetable Beef Soup is a perfect easy dinner that is packed with protein and veggies! It can be made in the crockpot, Instant Pot, or on the stove.

Stuffed Pepper Casserole is so yummy! A healthy dinner that is made in one pan in under an hour! Gluten free & delicious.

Homemade Hamburger Helper is easy, healthy and delicious – this is a quick meal your family will love!

Stuffed Bell Pepper Soup is all the flavors of stuffed peppers in a soup! Loaded with veggies and can easily be made in the crockpot, instant pot, or on the stove!

Healthy Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli is a super easy crockpot meal. Tastes just like takeout!

Homemade Meatballs are an authentic Italian recipe that are delicious. We serve them over zoodles or pasta with Healthy Tomato Sauce

Egg Roll in a Bowl from Whole New Mom is such an easy one pan meal! We’ve made it with ground turkey and ground chicken too.

Easy Steak Fajitas from Movement Menu look AMAZING! We love fajitas.

Healthy Vegan Dinners

If you don’t eat meat, no worries! We have a few healthy vegan dinners that you’ll love too! These vegetarian meals are delicious and made with nutritious ingredients – perfect for supper!

Vegetarian Chili is easy to make, vegan, and delicious – this hearty plant based chili is loaded with beans and veggies!

Vegan Pasta Fagioli is one of our most popular recipes. It’s a classic Italian meal made healthier!

Tomato Basil Soup is SO creamy and simple to make in the instant pot, crockpot or on the stove top. Healthy, vegan & dairy free.

Easy Minestrone Soup is the perfect cozy, healthy dinner! Vegetarian, gluten free, and vegan – it’s delicious and done in under 30 minutes!

15 Bean Soup is a great budget friendly, plant based recipe. Super quick to make in the instant pot!

What is a healthy dinner recipe?

In our opinion, a healthy dinner recipe is:

• a balanced meal of protein, vegetables + fats.
• veggie loaded
• made of real food (minimally processed/packaged foods

Your definition might be a little bit different from ours – but we think this is a great base, and it’s how we cook our meals. Many of these recipes are also paleo, whole30, gluten free and dairy free in case you follow those diets!

Tools for getting a healthy dinner on the table quickly:

These are my favorite kitchen tools. We use them almost every day!

• A crockpot is great because you can set it + forget it. We have tons of healthy crockpot recipes on our site.
• Instant Pot – I don’t love my instant pot as much as my crockpot, but it is great for making soups, or cooking grains like rice or farro
• Food processor – You can get a food processor for under $15 on Amazon. It makes chopping veggies SO QUICK. Here’s the one I have – I swear I couldn’t live without it!
• Mixer – We love our mixer for making meatball batter, or for shredding chicken. It’s one of our favorite kitchen tools
• Knife – Having a good, sharp knife can make all the difference in the kitchen. If you’re cutting with dull knives, it’s going to take longer to cut all those veggies! This is the knife I use every day. It’s easy to control and works beautifully! You can read all the 5 star reviews here.

What’s your favorite healthy dinner to make? If you’re looking for even more healthy dinner recipes – check out these posts!

• 25 Healthy Sheet Pan Dinners
• 45 Healthy Crockpot Recipes
• 20 Easy Whole30 CrockPot Recipes
• 25 Healthy Soup Recipes
• 20 Whole30 Instant Pot Recipes