15 quick dishes for a healthy diet

15 examples of appetizing dishes in less than 15 minutes that are easy to prepare and suitable for those who want to follow a healthy diet.

Easy cooking for people with little time and desire to eat well, is the motto of Cocinillas and we are going to dedicate this post to which will show you several examples of how it is possible to eat well following a healthy diet and investing the least amount of time in cook.

Today we forget for a moment all the special recipes that we have prepared for you this Christmas and that you will discover in the coming days and we focus on dishes for the day-to-day, on ideas of meals that we can prepare to eat or for dinner when there is no time for anything and when the temptation to eat some pre-cooked filth is about to win the game.

15 quick dishes

Quinoa Stuffed Peppers

A recipe for making use of leftovers that makes us happy for lunch or dinner. We can take advantage of some leftover quinoa with mushrooms or quinoa tabouleh. To fill some piquillo peppers that, accompanied by a good salad, will make a complete and very nutritious dish.

Scrambled Eggs

We teach you how to prepare them in this post and they are helped. Just like they are because they fix us from breakfast to dinner. We show you two proposals, with salad and small pieces of ham or with some leftover ratatouille that, on this occasion, did not have tomato sauce.

Grilled Salmon

It is prepared in 5 minutes and accompanied by grilled vegetables such as zucchini or aubergine or a good salad and it is a very complete dish for those moments in which it is impossible to find time for more elaborate recipes such as this salmon with orange.

Grilled Chicken

Thinking about a healthy diet and grilled chicken breast, I think it’s all one. In this case, the perfect dish is accompanied by a bit of salad and some leftover rice with paprika vegetables.

Grilled Prawns

Being in a hurry and wanting to eat a healthy diet is not incompatible with treating yourself from time to time, and for that what better than a bit of shellfish such as prawns that can be accompanied by a curried vegetable soup or Thai salad or a vegetable cream, in this case, it was spinach.

Grilled Beef With Salad

Another diet classic is grilled beef, which does not have to be that shoe-soled steak that we usually imagine when we think of healthy food.

French Omelet

Another classic that, using a little imagination, we can turn into a very attractive dish. Because one of the keys to eating a healthier diet is not falling into monotony. And cooking dishes that are appetizing at first sight. This time, I have added a few pieces of cheese to some leftover spinach sautéed with red pepper and I have put it as a filling for the tortilla.

Grilled Eggs

If the French omelet does not convince us, we can always make a couple of eggs, grilled or in the microwave, and accompany them with some grilled or steamed vegetables that are also made in the microwave in no time.

Microwaved Rice

We have already shown you a couple of recipes in two posts, rice pilafandrice 3 delights. And look how good these leftover rice pilafs look with some steamed carrots. A bit of yogurt sauce, a few pieces of black garlic, and a few sprigs of celery.

Vegetarian Sushi

Some time ago we taught you how to prepare sushi and, apart from being delicious, it is a dish that has little fat and is suitable if we intend to follow a healthy diet. This time I wanted it to be vegetarian so it only has vegetables.

Grilled Squid

Squid is a source of protein that hardly adds any fat and cooking it on the grill. Apart from being much cleaner than frying it is a quick way to prepare a meal for those days in a hurry. On this occasion, accompanied by some Padrón peppers cooked in the microwave without fat, salad, and grilled zucchini and aubergine.

Sautéed Red Cabbage

Another completely vegetarian dish, this time to take advantage of the piece of red cabbage that was left over after making the cream. Red cabbage cut into strips and sautéed with salt, pepper, and extra virgin olive oil, zucchini, and aubergine stewed with spices and some piquillo peppers roasted in the microwave.

Grilled Fish

If, in addition to a healthy diet, we intend to reduce fat to a minimum. Salmon may not be the most appropriate and it will be more advisable to opt for leaner white fish like this meiga (which I believe is called rampant in the rest of Spain) with potato and steamed carrot (potato and carrot steam in the microwave in just 6 minutes).

Miso Soup

A couple of weeks ago we taught you how to prepare this nutritious miso soup in just 5 minutes that we can turn into a complete menu with a salad (in this case, curly kale) and some slices of grilled tofu.

Paste

And of course, eating a healthy diet is not incompatible with eating pasta. Except that instead of being accompanied by a greasy industrial sauce. We will accompany it with low-fat meat such as turkey or chicken and a sauce made from fresh vegetables. And it will be much better if the pasta is integral.

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