Food and Nutrition
Fast, healthy 4-ingredient dinners
September 2012
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With two little boys at home, I’m on a mission to streamline my
dinner routine. My focus? Simplify. One of the awesome parts of working
as the digital editor at EatingWell Magazine is that I’m surrounded by
amazing healthy food every day. The problem is, I think I can go home
and cook all of these awesome recipes on a weeknight, when what I really
need to do is just get a healthy, simple meal on the table so my family
can still have some time to enjoy our night.
Recipes to Try: 20-Minute 5-Ingredient Dinner Recipes
I combed EatingWell’s recipe database and found these healthy,
super-simple 4-ingredient dinners to help me eat well but cook simply.
(I didn’t count kitchen staples like salt, pepper, oil, flour, sugar
against my 4-ingredient limit.) And they’re all ready in 30 minutes or
less of cooking time, most in 20 minutes—plenty of time to steam a
vegetable on the side and make instant brown rice or quinoa.
The other bonus of these 4-ingredient dinner recipes? They’ll minimize my grocery shopping too!
Turn your dining room into a French bistro when you dress up
pepper-crusted pork chops with a rich, creamy brandy sauce. Serve with
roasted sweet potato slices and green beans.
This combination may seem unusual—until you try it. The
sweet-tartness of the apple, creaminess of the cheese and bite of the
sauerkraut work together beautifully in this easy hot sandwich. Serve
with oven-roasted potatoes or a green salad.
A simple marinade of pureed dried figs and store-bought balsamic
vinaigrette adds intense flavor to steak. This recipe is adapted from
Lori Welander’s grand prize-winning recipe from the 2003 National Beef
Cook-Off.
This updated French bistro dish makes a simple dinner any night of
the week. You might want to consider doubling the batch and using the
remaining salmon in a tossed salad the next day, or even as the salmon
topper in the Warm Salmon Salad with Crispy Potatoes.
Who doesn’t love a crunchy fried shrimp? This version takes virtually
fat-free shrimp out of the deep fryer and pan-fries them in a little
bit of oil instead. With 9 grams of total fat and 213 calories per
serving, you can feel good about enjoying them.
A bag of frozen peppers and onions can be a quick start to a stir-fry; here, it’s combined with almost fat-free chicken tenders for a speedy dinner. Serve this dish with warm polenta rounds or brown rice.
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