Sweet oranges and tart cranberries make a perfect pair when you want to perk up your plate with tang and color. Adding orange peel as you begin cooking your rice, and orange juice at the end of the process, lends a smooth flavor and fragrance to this cranberry chicken.
Stuffing peppers is a fun way to serve a perhaps otherwise overlooked grain salad at your next backyard get-together. Cubanelle peppers are an ideal choice thanks to their mild spice, thin walls and narrow cone-like cavity.
Squid has a mild flavor that is ideal for absorbing the stronger notes of a marinade. And, with a kick of heat, red finger chiles are a perfect addition to this bistro-style salad.
Take your basic brown rice to the next level with a Japanese kick of flavor, thanks to wasabi, ginger, rice vinegar and honey! It'll only cost you three grams of fat per serving.
Roasting butternut squash enhances its creamy texture. With a tart and tangy combination of ginger, garlic and lime, this dish boasts immune-boosting benefits plus a zesty flavor profile, providing a quick pick-me-up in cooler weather.
This reader's love of garlic and fresh cilantro comes together in a Clean Eating magazine–approved dish that's sure to please! Customize the flavor by swapping out shrimp for your favorite fish.
Ditch the unnecessary fatty ingredients in a clean, updated version of the family favorite – baked, not fried.
Using five different onions makes for a well-rounded and balanced broth. The secret to a great onion soup is to slowly sweat and caramelize the onions.
This classic dish gets a healthy and colorful makeover with sweet parsnips and vibrant purple potatoes, while quinoa flakes make a gorgeous gluten-free crust for oven-baked fish!
While traditional risotto recipes made with rice require diligent stirring and timing, our farro version is almost impossible to overcook, thanks to the ancient grain’s firm, chewy texture – plus it adds a robust nuttiness!
This versatile robust sauce is a great staple to have on hand in your fridge or freezer. And feel free to jazz up our recipe with your favorite herbs and spices for varied flavor every day of the week.
The eggplant is native to southern India, called "aubergine" in France and found most commonly in its plump purple Italian form (or in its slender Japanese form, a good substitute), which we've used here to create a hearty and super-chunky tomato sauce.
Our reader's convenient turkey cups are full of protein to fuel you for the day, whether you eat them as a snack on Saturday morning or serve the pretty packages atop half an English muffin for brunch.
Recipes aren't always meant to be followed! For variety, try serving these trendy little sandwiches with sliced tomatoes and lettuce or thinly sliced mango, and use toothpicks to help the layers stay put.
There's something so comforting about tucking into a creamy bowl of potato soup once the weather starts to cool.
By ditching the requisite heavy cream and butter, we’ve stripped our creamy asparagus soup of its potentially weighty calorie count – it rings in at just over 200 calories and includes succulent toppers like crabmeat, Parmesan, bread cubes and more!
It's almost too easy to slash fat and calories: Simply cut the floury fillers and mayo-based dips to let the shellfish shine.
While a little less than an hour may seem long until dinner is ready, you can make this soup entrée ahead and enjoy it for dinner or lunch anytime. Trust us, it's even better on the second day!
We've captured the spirit of the British favorite with a few CE twists on the traditional filling of beef, onion, potato and rutabaga. Serve with clean ketchup for dunking and a simple spinach and arugula salad with a squeeze of lemon.
Julie O'Hara takes the ultimate one-pot comfort food and slashed the fat, calories and sodium.
Cincinnati chili is a bit thinner and sweeter than southwestern-style chili, and is traditionally served over spaghetti. Here, we've cut back the fat without compromising its trademark meaty flavor by using tender lean ground turkey.
Chipotle adds a little kick of spice and a lot of flavor to this hearty soup. A finishing touch of cilantro and a squeeze of lime brighten the entire meal.
The soufflé has a reputation for being fussy, but the truth is that anyone can whip up this impressive dish. With reduced egg yolks and just a tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil, this soufflé also fits comfortably into your healthy lifestyle.
A sweet red bell pepper sauce drapes the chicken in this succulent Spanish dish.
One of the most important tenets of Italian cooking is the use of fresh, natural ingredients, which made this clean cacciatore a breeze.
Try this side, of cinnamon- and carrot-scented wheat berries with butternut squash, with beef, chicken or fish.
What you'll find inside a California roll fits the CE-mission to a tee: rice, nori (seaweed), cucumber, avocado and crab. Sugar- and sorbitol-laced imitation crab is the most economical but we suggest opting for the real thing. Now, get rolling!
It takes only three ingredients to make our clean, butternut-squash-filled ravioli, the perfect low-fat base for a smorgasbord of butternut squash ravioli sauces. Here are three to try: Tomato Sage, Asian and Mushroom.
Butternut squash layered with our Everyday Marinara Sauce provides a creamy, sweet base for this protein-packed vegetarian butternut squash lasagna. You can thank the combination of walnuts, ricotta cheese and mozzarella for the 14 grams of protein in each serving.
A 3-ounce serving of our broiled eye of round steak recipe has only 180 calories, 1 gram of saturated fat and 3.5 grams of total fat, so it's no surprise that it's one of our favorite dishes.
Light and full of complex flavor, this stew is sure to become a regular in your home. Coconut, coriander and jalapeño give this stew an authentic Latin-American flair, while black cod adds a punch of protein.
Our reader's curry wraps let your slow cooker do the work, so you can bid your stove adieu for the day and come home to a hot, calorie-conscious dinner that doesn't skimp on flavor!
Buy a larger piece of beef to whip up a big pot of stew that will last for months in your freezer. This cold-weather staple is great with a crusty piece of whole-wheat baguette for dipping!
Fiber-rich hulled barley gives our risotto a satisfying chewy texture, and provides the perfect base to show off winter's primed butternut squash and kale!
Beat the heat this summer by avoiding long hours in front of your stove. With our reader's slow-cooker chicken recipe, you can set it and forget it! Did we mention it's a mere 144 calories?
In this rice-cooker meal, your marinated chicken breasts will slowly steam on top of a bed of wonderfully chewy farro, a regularly slow-cooking grain perfect for the rice cooker.
We bake a pear along with our beans and opt for honey and ginger in lieu of molasses, giving our budget-friendly beans a fresh chewiness not found in traditional recipes.
Slightly crunchy with a mildly nutty flavor, pearl barley cooks more quickly than the hulled variety while retaining its high-fiber, low-cholesterol benefits.
Lean beef and meaty mushrooms are the centerpieces of our dim sum.
Delicate artichokes find robustly flavorful collaborators in capers, cheese and leek to fill our low-fat chicken roulades, a welcome variation on your usual spinach or goat cheese stuffings.