Healthy Side Dishes
Better recipes, better meals.
Better recipes, better meals.
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.
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Norma Jean's Easiest Bean Salad Here's a quick-to-fix mixture of canned pork and beans, cucumber, tomato, onion, and mayonnaise to serve as a side dish. |
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Cold, cooked rice is combined with chicken and assorted vegetables to make this Thai fried rice side dish. |
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These potato wedges are flavored with thyme, rosemary, and paprika, and baked--not fried--to use less fat. |
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A tasty Greek salad recipe with tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions tossed with feta cheese and flavored with lemon juice, olive oil, black pepper and herbs. |
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Cavatelli or penne pasta is combined with tomatoes, feta cheese, green onion, and olives, then chilled in Italian dressing up to 24 hours. |
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Serve this pasta dish as a side to chicken or fish. The past is lightly coated with a fresh tomato and arugula sauce. |
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This quick and easy combination of rice and beans, plus onion, sweet pepper, tomato, and a little soy sauce, can be served as a main ... |
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Red potatoes are cooked with onion and garlic, mashed, and combined with butter and whipping cream. |
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This fried rice recipe adds chopped fresh spinach and red onion to the cooked (or leftover) white rice. |
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Cooked rice is prepared in a wok along with mushrooms, snow peas, scallions and beaten eggs, flavored with oyster sauce and a little marinade. The ... |
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Torn butter lettuce, sticks of jicama, orange and avocado, red onion slices and goat cheese are tossed together in a homemade vinaigrette made with red ... |
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This salad contains some chopped chicken, cheddar cheese and hard cooked eggs for protein, plus plenty of vegetables--lettuce, broccoli, bell peppers, and carrots--w... |
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Cheesy Low-Fat Mashed Potatoes These mashed russets have light chive-and-onion-flavored cream cheese and parmesan cheese to give richness instead of adding butter. They're moistened with fat-free ... |
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This vegetable soup combines cauliflower, potato and onion, cooked in chicken broth and blended until smooth. Garlic, coriander, curry powder and cumin flavor the so... |
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Zucchini slices are cooked in a skillet with tomato and onion. The mixture is seasoned with garlic, basil and seasoned salt, and sprinkled with bread ... |
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Sliced red cabbage and chopped onion are cooked in vinegar with brown sugar substitute, cinnamon and bay leaf. Apple is added to the mixture and ... |
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Six different fruits make up this colorful salad that's drizzled with a yummy rum and brown sugar mixture. |
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Garden Wax Beans with Roasted Peppers & Pine Nuts Pine nuts are a small, creamy white nut with a sweet, faint pine flavor. They add a nice crunch to this vegetable side-dish. |
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Thin slices of eggplant are coated with bread crumbs and cooked, then layered in a baking dish with ricotta & shredded cheese, fresh spinach, and ... |
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Roasted Vegetables with Garlic Glaze A variety of vegetables--onion, fennel, carrots, bell pepper, potato, zucchini and mushrooms--are roasted to caramelize, then coated with a mixture of roasted garlic... |
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Long grain rice is prepared with chicken broth, "hot" chili oil, garlic powder and ground ginger. Green onion, carrots, celery and peanuts are stirred into ... |
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Roasted Beets with Tangerine Sauce Beets are wrapped in foil and baked until tender, then quartered and placed in a saucepan with tangerine juice, sugar, butter, fresh ginger, vinegar and ... |
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Roasted Asparagus with Poppy Seed and Lime Fresh asparagus is coated lightly with olive oil and melted butter, then roasted at a high temperature with shallot, garlic and poppy seeds. Lime juice ... |
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Radishes and shallots are cooked in a little olive oil and butter, then sprinkled with brown sugar, lemon juice and peel, and sesame seeds. |
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White rice, cooked in chicken broth, is heated in bacon drippings along with crumbled bacon, green onion, bell pepper, and garlic powder until golden. |
Use tiny cutters and thin slices of carrot to make the carrot garnish to accent this smooth spinach soup.
Italian Green Beans with BaconIf 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 SaladThis simple salad becomes sensational when you make it with cucumbers and radishes fresh from your garden.
