Cook Healthy Recipes For Dinner

After a long day at work, all one wants to do is to have a quick dinner and then hit the bed. Tiredness takes over our will to cook something fancy, which requires some time. These easy healthy dinner recipes will help in such a situation, so read on.

Easy healthy dinner recipes are required by every household since spending too much time on cooking dinner is not much preferred, unless, it is a celebration or a holiday. Getting dinner prepared quickly also enables spending quality time with the family over dinner. Cooking a full-fledged dinner after a long and tiring day at work, is also not a feasible option for working moms. Most people rely on fast food, often junk food, to tackle such situations, which obviously is not very healthy. So here are a few easy dinner ideas and healthy recipes, that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less and are yummy too!

Chicken Breasts with Mushroom Cream Sauce

Ingredients

• 2 boneless chicken breasts, trimmed
• 1/4 cup chicken broth
• 2 tablespoons cream
• 1 cup mushroom caps, thinly sliced
• 1 minced medium shallot
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh chives
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
• 2 tablespoons dry white wine
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Coriander leaves - for garnishing

Method

Chicken Breasts
Marinate the chicken well with salt and pepper. Heat the canola oil in a pan, drop into it the chicken breasts and cook both sides well until it turns golden-brown. Remove from heat, place in a plate covered with foil and keep aside.

Mushroom Cream Sauce
Heat the canola oil in a shallow pan and add the shallots. Cook until it starts emitting its fragrance and then add the mushroom caps to it. Cook them until they turn tender for around 2 minutes. Pour the dry white wine into the pan, simmer and cook for a minute and a half. Then, pour in the chicken broth and cook until it reduces to half its quantity. Add the cream and chives to this, simmer and cook for about 2 minutes.

Transfer the chicken breasts from the plate to the pan and let it cook well in the mushroom sauce. Coat the chicken breasts with the remaining mushroom sauce and garnish with fresh coriander leaves. Serve with rice or garlic bread. Your easy healthy dinner is ready!

Peanut-Ginger Pasta

Ingredients

• 8 ounces whole-wheat spaghetti
• 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon minced ginger
• 12 ounces fresh vegetables like broccoli, carrots and green peas
• 1 1/2 teaspoons chilly-garlic sauce
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce

Method

Boil a large pot of water and put the spaghetti into it. Once it turns tender, add the fresh vegetables and let them cook. In the meanwhile, make the sauce by whisking together the peanut butter, chilly-garlic sauce, soy sauce and minced ginger in a large bowl. Once the spaghetti and vegetable have cooked well and are tender, remove them from the heat and drain. Keep aside one cup of the drained water. Rinse the spaghetti and vegetables in cool water and add the drained water to the sauce and mix well. Toss the spaghetti with the sauce and serve hot.