After a very busy and rough day, you might need some strategies to chop off the tiredness and boringness from your mind as well as from your heart. Strategies like a fresh bath could help you soothe your soul and a delicious dinner could bring back the happy vibe in your mind.
But being a health-concerned person, does the word “delicious dinner” triggering the panic button of yours? Then keep calm and remember that delicious dinner doesn’t have to be spicy, oily and unhealthy. You can prepare some very cool and tummy-licious dinners for yourself and your whole family, which are very healthy, light and easy-to-prepare.
Here are top 9 very delicious, healthy and light dinner ideas which are always favored by kids and adults, health-concerned people, nutritionists, trainers, and doctors.
Baked Salmon and Cucumber-Avocado Salad:
A well-seasoned and baked or grilled salmon steak could be the best healthy dinner idea when it’s served with the cucumber-avocado salad and half a glass of red wine or chardonnay. Nutritious value of a medium salmon steak is very well preserved. Its calorific value is 243, where 41 percent is fat, 58 percent is protein and 1 percent is carbohydrate.
The oven baked salmon is best served with the cucumber-tomato-onion avocado salad which is also a very well preserved nutritious food and easy to cook. The whole dinner would take hardly 20 to 25 minutes to prepare. Enjoy it with half a glass of wine or chardonnay.
Chicken-Avocado Burritos and tomato-basil-cucumber salad
The Mexican food, Chicken Burritos is the number one delicious yet healthy and easy to cook food you can have today. Chicken Burritos can be prepared within 10 to 15 minutes and they can also be frozen for like a month. So whenever you feel the burrito mood, just warm it well and have it with a bowl full of tomato, basil, cilantro, cucumber salad.
The whole chicken burrito and the tomato-basil-cucumber salad also comes under the 400 calorie food plan and they are made of lots of veggies, cheese, and chicken. So what are you waiting for? Prepare it today and fall in love with it.
Slow cooker Chicken and Mushrooms with cucumber-avocado salad:
Slow cooker recipes are like the must have it recipes in todays food-loving generation. People of all ages, kind of love this idea of slow-cooker. Even kids are fans of these recipes. You can also replace chicken with the salmon steak. It can be prepared under 20 to 25 minutes when the mushrooms and chicken are already boiled. The creamy flavor of chicken and mushroom with cheese kind of just melt in the mouth. Also, try to serve it with a bowl of avocado-cucumber salad to keep the food value up to score. A beautiful and healthy dinner idea for a beautiful evening with your loved ones.
Chicken-spinach-broccoli stir-fry:
A dish mixed with spinach and broccoli really comes in handy when we talk about healthy dinner recipes. Spinach and broccoli come with great nutritional values and have a reach source of dietary fiber, vitamins, and protein. When mixed with cheese and chicken, the dish becomes tummy-licious and healthy. Preparation time could vary from 20 to 30 minutes. So try it out and serve it well with half a glass of red wine to boost the mood.
Vegetable soup bowl with bread:
According to nutritionists, a vegetable soup bowl with bread could be the best yet very healthy and light recipe which can totally complete your calorie requirement for a day. Vegetable soup doesn’t mean it has to be boring and tasteless. A bowl full of garden vegetable soup could fulfill all your health needs and can be very tasty, both at once. There go all the veggies like beans, carrots, tomato, broccoli, potato, corn, basil, cabbage, and ladyfingers etc.
You could also prepare bread in the home with whole grain flour. Each serving of a bowl of garden veggie soup and 2 pieces of bread serves about 280 calories.
Marinated chicken breasts or chicken reshmi kabab with tomato-cucumber-avocado salad:
Marinated chicken item can be the best mouthful dish you want at dinner. It’s so yummy, juicy and beautifully seasoned that falling in love with this dish is kind of an unforgotten truth. When combined with tomato-cucumber-avocado or tomato-basil salad, it becomes a very well planned healthy dinner dish.
Marinated chicken kabab is also very easy to prepare because you can marinate the chicken breasts in a sealed bag with all the seasonings and can freeze it at least for 2 to 3 weeks and it takes hardly 7 to 8 minutes to grill properly. So enjoy your chicken the way you like it.
Quinoa salad and red wine:
Quinoa, or also known as the wonder grain is the new trendy food right now among the youngsters. Quinoa is a grain which can easily be cooked and digested. Also, it works wonderfully when we talk about health, obesity, diabetes, arthritis, high BP, and thyroid etc. Mix the boiled quinoa grain with all the veggies like tomato, beans, broccoli, basil, onion, parsley, lemon juice and stir it under the light flame. Serve it with the avocado or parmesan topping to flavor it well. Best served with half a glass of wine to nourish the mood.
Baked sweet potato with parmesan topping:
Baked sweet potato with parmesan can be the cheapest dinner item in the list when you compare it with others. You only need the sweet potato, eggs, cream and parmesan to cook the dish. The creamy filling of the dish just can’t be ignored and also it kind of takes like 20 minutes to be cooked properly. Once cooked just dig in to have the best pleasure when it’s warm. Also, you can add some vegetables like broccoli, tomato, carrots or can add shredded chicken to increase its food value to the best.
Spaghetti with chicken, green beans, and mushrooms:
Here is another delicious dinner item Spaghetti, very favorite and popular in the kids’ world as well as adults’. Easy to cook this dinner idea can be your today’s favorite menu. Just cook the spaghetti well and then mix shredded chicken, mushroom, beans, cheese well and to have the best flavor just stir fry it under low flame. You can also add other veggies according to your choice. One serving could give you approx. 230 calories and it takes like 20 to 25 minutes to be prepared well.
When healthy yet delicious foods are in the cravings, never say never to these dishes. Eat well, be happy and healthy and also don’t forget to love yourself.


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