Two Healthy Dinner Recipes To Wet Your Appetite And Leave You Wanting More

We all love a good dinner, but if you want to stay healthy and avoid weigh gain or if you want to lose some weight, a good dinner needs to be a healthy dinner. Do you all too often find yourself reaching for the phone to get a pizza delivered or heading home via the drive through, or perhaps you are just looking for some new dinner ideas. If so here are two healthy dinner recipe that you can adapt to your own taste.

Before I get started on making your mouth water I want to share a couple of tips on healthy eating.

The healthiest meals include some raw fruits and vegetables and an equal balance between starchy foods such as pasta, rice and potatoes, vitamin rich roods such as vegetables, fruits and seeds and proteins including seafood, meat, dairy foods, nuts, beans and pulses.

How you cook your food also affects how healthy it is. The least healthy method of cooking is deep-frying. If you deep fry and boil food it loses more of the vitamins and can even change structure to become unhealthy. It is generally better to steam vegetables and grill rather than deep fry food. Pan frying using olive oil or another good vegetable oil such as rape seed oil is OK for meats but less good for other foods that can get saturated in oil.

Here are two main course healthy dinner recipes

1. Pan grilled seafood and vegetable platter

Ingredients: fresh or frozen small squid and scallops (sliced them if they are large), sliced red pepper, sliced broccoli, finely chopped red onion, chopped parsley, virgin olive oil, a crushed clove of garlic (more if you are a garlic lover) and scrubbed potatoes.





With a bit of practice this dish can be made in 45 minutes - the time it takes for the potatoes to cook.

Follow up with a raw salad such as grated carrots, young spinach leaves, sliced cucumber and spring onions sprinkled with chopped almonds and walnuts, lightly dressed with virgin olive oil, wine vinegar and salt.

2. Pan cooked lambs liver with colored vegetables

Ingredients: quality lambs liver, onion, garlic, tomatoes, fresh or dried herbs to taste (I like rosemary), splash of red wine, extra virgin olive oil, scrubbed carrots, scrubbed sweet potatoes, washed cauliflower.





Follow up with a raw salad of watercress, lettuce, celery, cucumber and spring onions (or other raw vegetables as you please), sprinkles with sunflower and pumpkin seeds.

This dish can be made in less than an hour. Click Here!