Fresh Start for 2021 with 5 Recipes You’ll Want to Make Over and Over
Start this year with fresh and healthy recipes for your weekly dinner rotation. We are super excited to be partnering with Walmart, where you can find all the ingredients you’ll need for the 5 recipes in this quick and easy recipe collection, a perfect complement to your New Year's resolutions.
Think fresh, attainable, and crowd-pleasing when you see a mix of vegetarian, Instant Pot, skillet pork chops, flavorful Korean beef bowls, and chicken tortilla soup, all great ways to incorporate new flavors for the New Year.
Bonus! You’ll get nutrition tips with each recipe to upgrade the healthy factor and to get a bit of nutrition info.
Meal Plan Recipes
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Black Bean and Quinoa Enchilada Bake
Quinoa and black beans come together in this super flavorful vegetarian dish that is a healthy way to start the week. Fresh bell peppers and jalapeño peppers are seasoned with chili powder, cumin, and lime juice and then mixed with quinoa, black beans, and Mexican cheese blend creating a protein-rich and gluten-free taco bowl.
Nutrition Tip: Quinoa comes in different colors: white, red, or tri-color. Any of them will work for this recipe, providing a great source of protein, iron, and fiber.
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Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Thighs
Chicken thighs get the perfect sweet and savory sauce of honey, garlic, low sodium soy sauce in this pressure cooker recipe that is ready in less than 30 minutes. Make a side of rice and steam some pre-cut fresh broccoli while the chicken cooks to round out the meal.
Nutrition Tip: You can substitute chicken breasts for the thighs if you prefer. Buy antibiotic-free, natural chicken when available.
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Pork Chops with Mushrooms and Shallots
This quick and easy pork chop recipe is ready in about 35 minutes, looking and tasting like you ordered it from a fancy restaurant. Pork chops are cooked in butter in a skillet, transferred to a plate, and then mushrooms and shallots are cooked in the same skillet, making this a one-skillet meal that is rich and flavorful without much fuss.
Nutrition Tip: Make a side of sauteed kale and brown rice for a touch of green and whole grain.
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Korean Beef Bowls
Soy sauce, fresh ginger, garlic, and red pepper flakes bring perfectly balanced flavor to ground beef in these quick and easy Korean-inspired bowls. Brown rice and the seasoned ground beef are topped with fresh carrots and cucumber creating a colorful and healthy dinner. The bonus is that they are ready in 20 minutes!
Nutrition Tip: Substitute ground chicken or ground turkey for the ground beef to make a lighter version.
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The Best Chicken Tortilla Soup I Ever Made
Carrots, onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes are seasoned with taco seasoning and then blended with cheese and avocado, creating a creamy and super flavorful tortilla soup. Chicken, black beans, and corn are then added to give protein and texture in this quick and easy meal that is a crowd-pleaser any night of the week.
Nutrition Tip: Skip the chicken and use vegetable broth in place of the chicken broth to make this a vegetarian meal.
Alli Shircliff
Alli is a Certified Nutritionist and yoga instructor that talks about nutrition on a weekly YouTube show for Relish. She has loved food and nutrition since taking her first health class in the fourth grade. She got her Master of Science in Nutrition degree from Bastyr University and worked in nutrition research at the University of Washington Medical Center for over 8 years. She worked as a recipe editor and nutritionist for two prominent food websites and has been teaching yoga since 2013. She was a judge on the cooking show Dinner Spinner on the CW. She is always ready for a long walk, a glass of wine, and a good book.