Sometimes eating a healthier diet can be synonymous with suffering through boring meals, but no more! Gone are the days of plain steamed veggies, unexciting salad greens, and unseasoned chicken breasts. Instead, we’ve rounded up a variety of our favorite healthy recipes that are so flavorful, the fact that they’re healthier than most is just the cherry on top. These healthy (yet still super-satisfying) chicken breast recipes even have us rethinking our allegiance to chicken thighs (😱). Try them, and see for yourself just how good “healthy” can be.
When it comes to healthy eating, we think it's key to keep boredom at bay. Chicken breasts can often get a bad rap, but they're also the perfect blank canvas for endless flavor combos that would never come across as bland health food. The trick is to fill your plate with lots of colors and flavors, just like they do at some of your favorite fast-casual salad or bowl restaurants like Panera or Sweetgreen. Our copycat Sweetgreen harvest bowl, our copycat Chipotle burrito bowl, our copycat Panera Bread strawberry poppyseed salad, or our copycat CPK Italian chopped salad are veritable rainbows of veggies, greens, and fruits. Best part about making them at home? You can customize them however you like—we like adding beans, nuts, and hard-boiled eggs for even more protein, but you do you!
Looking for something heartier than a salad? We’ve got you covered too. Our white chicken chili, our chicken primavera spaghetti squash boats, our cheesy salsa chicken & cauliflower rice skillet, and our healthy chicken noodle soup make smart swaps, without any loss of flavor. Make a big batch—the whole family will want to get in on these.
Marry Me Chicken
And don’t forget about your air fryer! Our air fryer orange chicken, our air fryer spinach & artichoke stuffed chicken, and our air fryer chicken Parmesan are proof you can have crispy, saucy, flavor-packed chicken, even without deep frying.
When a sizzling plate of fajitas goes by you, it’s impossible to ignore. The signature smell, the trail of steam—this classic Tex-Mex dish is a showstopper. As iconic as they are when ordered out, fajitas are ridiculously easy to make at home, just how you like them.
A chicken Caesar salad is a timeless classic, only made better (and more portable!) in a wrap. Our best tips for greatness: Make your own croutons, but use store-bought Caesar dressing.
Shredded Chicken Recipes For Easy Weeknight Dinners
Attention, Sweetgreen lovers! Your regular weekday lunch is about to get an instant upgrade. Loaded with roast chicken, sweet potato, and that signature balsamic vinaigrette, our copycat version of Sweetgreen’s beloved harvest bowl will make your favorite takeout lunch an everyday reality.
This air-fried version is just as delicious and savory-sweet as the original orange chicken without the added effort or calories. Typically deep- or pan-fried in oil,
Adding white beans makes this heartier than your average chicken noodle soup, and the addition of green chiles, jalapeño, and sour cream add the perfect amount of heat and creaminess to switch up classic chili. Plus, everything comes together in less than an hour!
Easy Chicken Recipes For Kids
Juicy grilled BBQ chicken sits alongside festive South-of-the-border-inspired toppings like black beans, corn, cheese, and tortilla strips. Put that on top of crunchy romaine and drizzle it with BBQ sauce and ranch dressing, and you’ve got yourself a hearty meal you’ll look forward to eating again and again.
Spinach & artichoke dip is one of our all-time faves. We love it so much, we stuffed it inside boneless, skinless chicken breasts then cooked them in our air fryer for just 20 minutes for wildly-tasty results.
Spaghetti squash turns our favorite angel hair pasta primavera into a gluten-free, low-carb dinner. It's the perfect healthy dinner to keep things fresh—swap in your favorite seasonal veggies, and you can make it year-round.
Minute Garlic Butter Chicken (easy Stovetop Recipe!)
This creamy, red-tinted spin on white chicken chili incorporates gochujang for a unique spin on a classic winter dinner. Gochujang, an umami-packed Korean red chili paste that is both sweet and savory, gives lots of flavor without a ton of heat (great for family dinners!).
This absurdly easy cashew chicken only takes 30 minutes from start to finish (yep!), and the delicious sauce has only five ingredients. You literally can't beat that for a low-carb dish!
Here’s a quick and easy dinner that’s high in protein and takes very little effort. We love the Tex-Mex spices here; the chili powder and cayenne add a nice kick that the avocado and sour cream perfectly offset.
Healthy Dinner Ideas For Family
While we’re all about switching things up, when we want a tried-and-true perfect meal, we always go back to the Chipotle chicken burrito bowl. It’s classic, reliable, and, best of all, completely customizable. No corn salsa? Extra guac? At home, you can have it all!
Hasselback your chicken by cutting shallow slits into the chicken breasts (don't cut all the way through!) and stuff each slit with bacon and a creamy spinach and artichoke filling.
Filled with zucchini, cherry tomatoes, Kalamata olives, and sharp crumbled feta, these tender stuffed peppers have all the flavors you love from a Greek salad, plus a hearty addition from herby chicken breast and couscous.
Healthy Chicken Dinners
To make this salad, we stuck with the simplicity of a Caprese, just adding grilled balsamic chicken, creamy avocado, and a little romaine for crunch. The result is a simple salad that is still refreshing and light, but also satisfying enough to be dinner all summer long.
This Buffalo chicken wrap is just as easy to customize as it is to make. Feel free to adjust the spices to add more or less heat, swap out the slaw for lettuce, the blue cheese sauce with ranch dressing, or use Greek yogurt in place of mayonnaise.
The fact that crispy golden chicken can be achieved without the use of any oil whatsoever is amazing. This air fryer chicken Parm tastes every bit as good as the traditional version, but requires much less effort to whip up.
Health Lemon Garlic Chicken {gf, Low Calorie}
Extra crispy on the outside and cheesy on the inside, these tacos are so much fun to make and eat. Putting cheese directly in your skillet might sound wrong, but it works! Once off heat, the cheese hardens and crisps up, giving the texture of a crunchy taco shell, sans carbs.
Pull out some frozen chicken, riced cauliflower, a bottle of salsa verde, plus a block of cheese, and you’re ready to make a low-key low-carb dinner. Bonus: You can whip this up in just 25 minutes—seriously!
This salad the best way to eat buffalo chicken wings, covered in a homemade ranch dressing, with all of your favorite sides. Bonus, no saucy orange fingers!
Best Kid Friendly Dinner Recipes
Mackenzie Filson is a food writer and contributing digital food producer at . Her favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate-pine and if wine was an astrological sign she'd be a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. She's never met a bag of Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos she didn't eat in one sitting.I’m always looking for simple meals to make my family on busy weeknights, and chicken is one of the easiest meats to cook. I mean, it’s pretty hard to screw up especially if it’s cooked in your crockpot or mixed into a casserole.
Fortunately for you, I’ve rounded up a list of my best reviewed chicken recipes! Everything from oven baked chicken breasts to rotisserie casseroles. Chicken seems to be a favorite among kids, especially if you have picky eaters to feed, so I think you’ll find something here to make just about everyone happy.
Just 3 ingredient needed to make this amazing chicken dinner! This mixture is one of my favorite last minute meals when I don’t feel like planning dinner or spending all night in the kitchen, plus you can’t beat a meal that only requires a few basic ingredients.
Chicken Dinner Ideas {easy, Healthy + More!}
Don’t you just love a good juicy rotisserie chicken? It’s so tender and full of flavor; my absolute favorite chicken for adding to casseroles! This simple dish includes just about everything you’d ever want in a meal and has a ton of different textures and flavors in every bite. My picky kids love it!
Healthy, low carb, and delicious! This cream cheese baked chicken is versatile in that you can serve it alone or with rice, pasta, salad, or anything else you’d like. It’s all whipped up in just a single pan so there’s very little prep or clean up involved.
Even your picky eaters are going to love this savory enchilada recipe! Any kind of shredded or diced chicken can be used including rotisserie or even leftovers from the night before. The sauce is so rich and heavenly, my kids lick their plates clean.
Healthy Breaded Chicken
No grill needed here! Yes, you can make incredibly flavorful and tender chicken in your oven on a single sheet pan. The peppers and onions cook to perfection at about the same rate as it takes for the chicken to fully cook.
My kids love a good sweet sauce on their chicken, and homemade teriyaki sauce is so much better than the store bought stuff. Serve this yummy chicken with instant rice and a side of veggies for one of the easiest meals you’ll ever make.
Ground chicken makes this recipe incredibly quick
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