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Healthy Side Dishes

Our collection of healthy side dishes will help you find the perfect complement to any dinner. They're healthy and delicious, so you may just find a new family favorite.

Chili Cornbread Salad

A very flavorful chilled salad made with corn, tomatoes, bacon, and cheddar cheese accompanied with savory cornbread crumbles.

Butternut Squash Soup

This vegetable soup combines potato, butternut squash, carrots, celery, and onion. It's simmered slowly to blend the flavors of the vegetables and spices.

Eggplant Italiana

This yummy side-dish includes lots of veggies besides eggplant, such as red onion, bell peppers, green beans, tomatoes, and mushrooms.

Fruity Sangria Salad

This light salad combines cubes of honeydew and cantaloupe, sliced nectarines, diced apples, and green grapes in a simple sugar-free syrup flavored with gingerroot, ...

Low-Carb Spaghetti Squash

Strands of spaghetti squash are tossed with a cooked mixture of Italian sausage, onion, sweet peppers and spaghetti sauce. The mixture is piled back into ...

Allison's Asian Spinach Salad

This spinach salad has an Asian influence with shiitake mushrooms, water chestnuts, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce and toasted sesame oil. There's also grapefruit plus...

Sweet and Savory Pilaf

This side dish uses quick-cooking long grain and wild rice mix, and adds celery, onion, dates and cashews for flavor, crunch and interest.

Feta-Waldorf Side

Cooked rice, herbed feta cheese, onion, celery, apple, golden raisins, and walnuts are combined in this side dish that's topped with buttered panko crumbs and ...

Avocado Salad

Avocados are sliced and arranged on serving plates, then drizzled with a dressing that combines olive oil, balsamic vinegar, red onion and Gorgonzola cheese.

Garden Veggie Saute

This colorful combo of skillet-cooked vegetables includes onion, mushrooms, summer squash, zucchini, and tomatoes. Rosemary and thyme add flavor.

Quick & Spicy Ratatouille

Eggplant, zucchini and yellow summer squash, tomatoes, onions and cubed pepper are combined with herbs for this side dish.

Summer Green Beans

Fresh green beans are mixed with cooked mushrooms and topped with walnuts, parmesan cheese and salt and pepper to taste.

Peach and Cucumber Salsa

A tasty fresh fruit salsa made with peaches, cucumbers, jalapeno peppers and cilantro. Would be great with fish and grilled meat or poultry.

Spicy Gingered Broccoli and Red Peppers

Broccoli is stir-fried with red bell pepper in a sauce made of pineapple juice, oyster sauce and Asian chili sauce.

Going Greek Salad

Greek salad with a interesting combination of sweet and salty flavors. Low fat dressing makes it an extra healthy choice.

Bowtie Madness

A fast and easy pasta dish made with sun dried tomatoes, olive oil, garlic and capers.

Mexican Corn Pesto Farfalle with Chicken

A colorful and tasty pasta dish--with a Mexican flair!

Fabulous Fruit Fantasia

A variety of fruits (including grapes, cherries, mandarin oranges, peaches and bananas) is folded into a creamy almond-flavored low-fat mixture.

Cold Pasta/Shrimp/Spinach Salad

Cheesy tortellini mixed with colorful vegetables, shrimp, and a tasty dressing. A great side or main dish salad.

Penne Con Broccoli

Broccoli flowettes are cooked with the penne pasta, drained, then tossed with garlic oil, and sprinkled with lemon juice & parmesan.

Stuffed Pumpkin Pilaf

Brown rice is combined with onion, celery, carrots, and roasted pumpkin seeds, seasoned with rosemary, then baked inside small pie pumpkins.

Rice Salad with Grape Tomatoes and Feta Cheese

Cooked and cooled white (or brown) rice, feta cheese & tomatoes are seasoned with lemon juice, dillweed, & garlic in this salad.

Grilled Spanish Seafood Gazpacho

This traditional tomato/vegetable soup is loaded served cold with fresh grilled shrimp and scallops.

Coconut Almond Chicken with Apricot Curry Sauce

Chicken breaded with coconuts and almonds, and served with a sweet suace of apricots and curry.

Hillbilly Slaw

Broccoli salad with a flavor boost from ramen noodles-this recipe will be a hit at your next family dinner or pot-luck.

Butternut Squash and Coconut Soup

Summer Gazpacho

Harvest Slaw with Pancetta-Cider Vinaigrette

Lentil Salad

Brussels Sprouts and Chestnuts

Tangerine Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Acorn Squash with Cranberry Butter Pecan Stuffing

Italiano Chop Salad

Prize of Autumn Pear Salad

Almond & Sherry Rice

South Asian Mushrooms

Greek Mushrooms

Pearls Baked in Onion Sauce

Mock Potato Salad

Fuss Free Fiber Muffins

Cheesy Creamy Broccoli

Can't Beat It Organic Beet Salad

Onion Apple Soup with Gruyere Cheese

Technicolor Fennel Salad

Gazpacho Salad Bowl

Spinach Gorgonzola Salad and Balsamic Dressing

Papaya Platter Salad

Samurai Salad

Chin Kiang Bean Sprout Salad

Creamy Zucchini Soup

Rich French Onion Soup

Curried Butternut Squash Soup

Butternut Squash Soup with Vanilla Essence

Elegant Tomato Bisque

Butternut Squash and Barley Soup

Easy Black Bean and Chorizo Soup

Black Eyed Bean Salad

Creamy Peanut Butter Lentil Soup

Winter Fruit Salad

Potato Salad P'zazz

Tomato Dill Soup

Slimmed-Down Broccoli and Cheese Soup

Spicy Pumpkin Soup

Mesclun Salad with Raspberry/Maple Dressing

Creme Fraiche Potato Leek Soup

Strawberry Spinach Salad

Sour Salad

Puttanesca Salad

Puttanesca Salad

Creole Maque Choux Chowder

Southwestern Spinach Salad with Vinaigrette

Five Spice Creamy Pumpkin Soup

Chris' Salad

Charred Romaine Salad

Super Fruit Salad

Cucumber Summer Salad

Green Chili Tortilla Soup

Three Potato Soup with Fresh Rosemary

Simply Delicious Salad

Tomato Basil Salad

Spinach Bisque with Dill and Lemon

Healthy Chicken Soup

Simple Spinach Salad

Greek Tortellini Salad

Cabbage and Yogurt Salad

Warm Apple Pear Soup with Stilton

Cucumber Mango and Red Onion Soup

Better Broccoli Salad

Colorful Bulgar Pilaf

Pineapple-Apple Salad

Nutritious Bulgar and Black Bean Casserole

Southwestern Puff Pouches

Slimming Pear and Artichoke Casserole

Roasted Carrots, Onions and Peppers

Pecan Portabella Purses

Centerpiece Pumpkin with Pumpkin Seed Pilaf

Broccoli Ramen Casserole

Beckie's Tossed Salad

Pasta Fagloli

Fruity Wild Rice Pilaf

Stephanie's Rice

Spicy Corn and Potato Chowder

Sweet Potato Happiness

Corn & Cheddar Rice Cakes

Southern Broccoli Salad

Mediterranean Style Skillet Eggplant

Hearty Bean and Brat Soup

BLT Soup

Sugar Free Pork and Beans

Healthy Brunch Casserole

Garlic Green Beans with Mushrooms

Italian Mozzarella and Tomato Dish

Elegant Eggplant Stromboli

Grilled Vegetable Ranch Salad

Roasted Veggie Medley

Ham and Cheddar Bread Pudding

Spring Pea Salad

Italian Fruit Salad in a Melon Boat

Grilled Zucchini

Shitake Risotto

Baked Eggplant Rollups

Stuffed Tomatoes with Orzo and Fresh Herbs

Roasted Yam and Spinach Salad

Paradox Macaroni and Cheese

Fruity Family Salad

Spicy Fruit Salad

Spanish Tortilla

Roasted Carrot Salad

Mixed Veggie Italian Grill

Ambrosia Fruit Salad

Edamame Multi Bean Salad

Cool N Creamy Cucumber Salad

Mighty Fine Broccoli

Garden Bounty Salad with Mustard Dressing

Fruit Salad with Almond Yogurt Dressing

Fresh Mediterranean Antipasto Salad

Taste of Thai Stuffed Red Bell Peppers

Fresh and Spicy Three Bean Salad

Give Me a Zing Potato Salad

Summertime Tomatoes with Baked Spinach

Herbed Beans with Caramelized Onions and Brie

Little Trees in Cheese

Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream, Dill and Shal

Sweet Onion and Sauerkraut Relish

Spinach with Rice

Marilyn's Scalloped Potatoes

Savory Herbed Corn

Succulent Summer Succotash

Rosemary Roasted Potatoes

Asparagus Cassarole


Creamy Spinach Soup

Use tiny cutters and thin slices of carrot to make the carrot garnish to accent this smooth spinach soup.

Italian Green Beans with Bacon

If Italian green beans, which have a wide, flat, green pod, are not available, substitute the more slender and rounded regular green beans.

Curly Cukes and Radish Salad

This simple salad becomes sensational when you make it with cucumbers and radishes fresh from your garden.