A Week of Clean-Eating Dinners and Sides

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By Breana Lai, December 18, 2015 – 5:06pm



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Eating purify might seem like a smart idea, though in a EatingWell Test Kitchen, it’s what we always consider about when we rise recipes—and how we like to prepare during home. It’s simply a healthy—and sustainable—way to proceed all your meals. “Clean eating means stuffing your image with real, whole foods, eating a accumulation of fruits and whole grains, assuage amounts of gaunt meats and tolerable seafood, dairy, nuts and seeds and healthy oils,” says Michelle Dudash, purebred dietitian and author of Clean Eating for Busy Families. And, she adds, “Notice how we don’t discharge food groups?” Now that’s good news!


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To assistance jump-start your clean-eating efforts, I’ve put together a 7-day clean-eating cooking menu. All a formulation has been finished for you! we focused on tasty recipes that consolidate clean-eating principles, so you’ll be tying processed food, slicing sodium, eating reduction meat, loading adult on vegetables and selecting some-more whole grains.


The recipes in this week’s devise start with an Asian-inspired orange duck and embody omega-3-rich salmon, a protein-packed quinoa veggie burger, pizza with a salad on tip (we like to call them pizz’alads) and healthy pasta with pesto and vegetables. Fast and healthy side plate suggestions turn out any meal.


Download a mini cookbook with all a recipes for this week of dishes and a printable selling list!


Here’s this week’s menu:


Clementine Five-Spice ChickenMonday: Clementine Five-Spice Chicken
Clean-Eating Theme: Eat Less Processed Food


Ditch a Chinese takeout and make this beautiful homemade duck recipe. Vitamin C-rich citrus, perfumed Asian five-spice powder and sharp Sichuan peppercorns mix together to emanate a sweet, nonetheless sour flavor. You’ll be vacant during how dainty this plate is, regulating usually a handful of elementary ingredients.


Serving Idea: Pair with couscous and a churned immature salad with Carrot-Ginger Vinaigrette.


Salmon with Toasted Israeli CouscousTuesday: Salmon with Toasted Israeli Couscous
Clean-Eating Theme: Slash a Sodium


This elementary one-skillet salmon plate with toasted Israeli couscous has usually 368 mg of sodium per serving. (Compare that to Chili’s “Lighter Choice Grilled Salmon” served with rice and steamed broccoli, that has a whopping 1,920 mg of sodium!) In further to being healthier, a EatingWell chronicle is prepared in usually 30 minutes. Look for whole-wheat Israeli couscous for combined fiber.


Serving Idea: Try roasted carrots with cumin or Basic Sautéed Kale for a unfeeling side.


Quinoa Veggie BurgerWednesday: Quinoa Veggie Burger
Clean-Eating Theme: Eat Less Meat


This veggie burger is ideal since it has 11 grams of protein from a quinoa. This meatless burger is also generally tasty since it’s packaged with toasted pecans, mushrooms, cheese and herbs. YUM!


Serving Idea: Mixed Green Salad with Maple-Mustard Vinaigrette


Margherita Pizz'alad Thursday: Margherita Pizz’alad
Clean-Eating Theme: Eat More Vegetables


I picked one of my favorite dishes and combined a veggie twist: pizza with a salad on top. This healthier refurbish to a classical Margherita pizza is surfaced with luscious tomatoes, slices of uninformed mozzarella and a inexhaustible apportionment of sour immature salad, though feel giveaway to use your favorite veggies. And with a pizza this installed with good stuff, we don’t need a side!


Spaghetti GenoveseFriday: Spaghetti Genovese
Clean-Eating Theme: Choose Whole Grains


In this recipe, we mix immature beans, potatoes and pesto with whole-wheat pasta for a satisfying, nonetheless fiber-rich meal. If we are eating gluten-free, barter a pasta for enriched gluten-free pasta, quinoa or brownish-red rice.


Serving Idea: Arugula Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette


Quinoa Pilaf with Seared ScallopsSaturday: Quinoa Pilaf with Seared Scallops
Clean-Eating Theme: Cut a Sugar


Most people eat distant too many combined sugars. The easiest approach to purify adult a sugars in your diet is to extent apparent sources of sugarine like soda, candy and baked goods. But don’t stop there. Healthy dishes like yogurt, tomato salsa and cereal can be “sneaky” sources of combined sugars, so check a labels. In this recipe, we use whole-grain quinoa and get healthy benevolence from citrus and scallops.


Serving Idea: Basic Sautéed Kale


Spaghetti Squash MeatballsSunday: Spaghetti Squash Meatballs
Clean-Eating Theme: Curb a Alcohol


For Sunday we’re apportionment adult some friendly comfort food: spaghetti and meatballs with a healthy swap: spaghetti squish instead of noodles for an extra-tasty sip of vegetables. And since eating purify also means celebration clean—even on a weekend, folks!—stick to a endorsed ethanol expenditure of one splash for women and dual for men. One splash equals 5 ounces of wine, 1.5 ounces of wine or 12 ounces of beer.


Serving Idea: Garlicky Green Beans


Download a mini cookbook with all a recipes for this week of dishes and a printable selling list!



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