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Food choices can make up pretty, healthy, seriously ill or really obese. It is our conscious choices that make foods work for us. The choice is ours. We can continue to eat junk and let our body get wrecked or we make better food choices that are good for us. Everyone recommends eating breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper. What it that you really should eat in dinner? It is best to keep your meal light and consume some seasonal vegetables. Here we are providing our user best 4 healthy dinner recipes:
Seasoned Chicken with bell peppers
This dish is easy to make and has a preparation and cooking time of 25-30 minutes.
For this you will need two pounds of boneless chicken cut into one inch pieces, salt, olive oil, rosemary, one cup of boiled chickpeas, one cup of chopped red and yellow bell peppersand some grated parmesan cheese
Boil the chickpeas and while doing so, season the chicken with rosemary, salt and pepper. Heat the olive oil and add the bell peppers to it. Sauté lightly and add the chicken and chickpeas. Once done, sprinkle some cheese on top.
Pasta Salad
For this salad, you will need celery, apple, peanuts, olive oil, salt and pepper and some lime juice. Cook the pasta of your choice a per the package directions.
While the pasta is cooking cut the apple and celery into bite size pieces. Once done, drain the water and add the celery, apple, peanuts along with the lime juice and salt and pepper.
You can also add almonds or hazelnuts in case you are not particularly fond of peanuts. This is a light salad and can be clubbed with a light soup. To add a little twist, you can use apple cider vinegar instead of lime juice.
Scallops with Broccoli and Spinach
For this recipe, you will need one cup of chopped onion, one cup of boiled gazebo beans, one pound of sea scallop, 2 cups of spinach, salt and pepper, orange juice and some butter.
Heat a little butter in a saucepan over low heat Add the chopped onions till they become golden brown. Add the boiled gazebo beans and spinach and simmer until the beans are hot and the spinach is wilted. Keep warm.
Heat a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Season the scallop with salt and pepper on both sides. Add the butter along with the scallops to the pan with the beans and sear for 2 to 3 minutes till it turns golden.
Sprinkle more salt and add some orange juice before serving.
Preparation time for this recipe is 40 minutes.
Brown Rice with vegetables
For this you will need 2 cups of brown rice, one cup of chopped beans, bell peppers and snow peas along with salt, olive oil, thai basil and some garlic.
Boil the brown rice. In a large pan, heat the oil and put around 2 tea spoons of garlic in it. Once it turns brown and the vegetables and salt and cook till done. Add the boiled rice. Sprinkle some cut leaves of thai basic and cover the rice. Serve Hot.
This recipe is light and you can use any vegetables of your choice. To add a little twist you can also add crushed cardamom and clove along with the garlic.
Preparation time for this recipe is 30-35 minutes.
This light, healthy recipes will not only appeal to your calorie conscious self but also to your taste buds. Adding a little bit of seasoning can really make regular food interesting.
Make sure to eat your dinner early. Most nutritionists recommend eating dinner two to three hours before your actual sleep time to ensure a good night’s rest.
