5 QUICK HEALTHY DINNER IDEAS | Easy weeknight recipes!

Hey guys, it's Diesel Jane. Today I wanted to show you some quick healthy dinner recipes. You guys have been asking me for some more dinner recipes, so I thought I'd show you an entire video dedicated to healthy dinner recipes. These are quick. I don't have a huge amount of time to make dinner in the evening. I think like most people, I've usually got things that I still need to do, it's rushed, but you guys know that I love food. I just love food, so it's got to be tasty. So these are quick, they're tasty, but you guys know as well that I try to eat healthier. I just feel better when I eat healthier, so these are quick, they're tasty, and they're healthier. So I'm going to be showing you five and let's get started. These are some of my favorite recipes at the moment. Let's get started with the videos. Quick, healthy, tasty dinner recipe. The first dinner recipe I'll be sharing with you today is my favorite quick curry chickpea and quinoa lettuce wraps. Super quick and easy to make and really delicious also. To start, I'm roughly chopping up a quarter of an onion and I'm adding that to my pan. You can do up to about half an onion if you like. Then I'm just chopping up some cherry tomatoes, quartering them. I've used one cup of cherry tomatoes and I'm adding some fresh lemon juice as well. I'm using the juice from about half a lemon. Then about half to one teaspoon of curry powder and also about half a teaspoon of onion powder, some black pepper and sea salt of course, and then about half a teaspoon of cooking oil. I'm using about two-thirds of a cup of canned chickpeas because it's just the quickest. Just drain them and rinse them first and then you can add them to the pan and just toss it up a bit and add the pan to the stove over a medium heat. The chickpeas are cooked already obviously, so you're just heating them up and you can just cook everything on the stove until the onion and tomatoes are cooked. Then I'm adding a tablespoon of pure tomato paste. I generally do add just a little bit of water while cooking and when the whole mix is starting to look a little bit dry to get it a little bit more saucy and mix it up until everything is looking something like this. This might look all fancy but it's actually really super quick and easy to make. Now I'm going to finish making the wraps really quickly. I always keep cooked quinoa in the fridge and I've got a few romaine lettuce shells here. I try to get the ones that are a little bit bigger to make nice wraps. I'm using about half a cup of the cooked quinoa and I'm adding a little bit of quinoa to each of the lettuce shells as the base ingredient and then the most important ingredient, the curried chickpeas. I just spoon the mixture out of the pan and just add it to the lettuce wraps until it's all used up. You guys, I really really love this recipe. It's seriously one of my favorite dinners right now and once all of the lettuce wraps are filled up, I like to do another little squeeze of fresh lemon juice over each one. It just really brings out all of the flavors so nicely. And that is my healthy curried chickpea and quinoa lettuce wrap recipe. You can obviously double, triple, quadruple the ingredients that I've used to make enough dinner for meal prep or for your partner as well or for your family or for your friends. I'm just showing you a one serving size for each of the recipe today so that you can know what one serving size is and that you can make according to how much you need. Okay, this next one is so simple and it's one of my classic favorites. My healthy asian inspired chicken noodles. Okay, I call this asian inspired because it's not an asian recipe. It's very westernized but I've just been inspired by some of the asian flavors and ingredients. I love asian food. So it's very easy to make. To start, I've sliced up 100 grams of chicken breast meat which I've added to my pan with about half a teaspoon of cooking oil and two tablespoons of soy sauce or a soy sauce alternative. I use this stuff called coconut aminos. It tastes so good just like soy sauce and it's supposed to be healthier. So that's what I used but you can use regular soy sauce. So two tablespoons of that with one heaped teaspoon or so of honey. You can also use pure maple syrup instead, sea salt, black pepper and about half to one teaspoon of onion powder and a little sprinkle of ginger powder as well. Not too much though, just a little sprinkle and also some fresh lemon juice and cook that together on the stove over a medium to high heat. I've also washed a handful of broccoli florets and I'm adding that to the pan as well and then I'm cooking some pasta. I'm using some fine brown rice spaghetti which is my favorite. You can use any gluten-free pasta or whatever you'd prefer. I'm adding a decent amount to a pot of boiling water for a few minutes until it's cooked. Just follow the cooking instructions on your brand of pasta and then once the chicken and the broccoli is looking nicely cooked and just a little bit brown, I'm adding a handful of rinsed baby spinach and that doesn't take a long time to cook. Once the spinach is wilted, it will be ready and when the pasta is done cooking, I just drain it really quickly and now everything is ready. So I'm adding about one cup of cooked spaghetti to the pan with the cooked chicken and vegetables and just tossing it all up. I do now like to add another tablespoon of soy sauce or my coconut aminos as well as another squeeze of fresh lemon juice and then toss it all up again and you can serve it because it's all ready. I like to serve it in a bowl and that is super yummy and simple and still on the healthier side and one of my classic favorite easy dinner recipes. Spaghetti is one of my favorite things to The next recipe that I'll be sharing with you guys today is my go-to for busy days when I get home and I'm hungry and I have stuff to do and I just want to make dinner real quick. You know the feeling I'm sure. So I start with a can of black beans. Just rinse the beans off really quickly. Okay you guys know I always meal prep my quinoa and my brown rice to keep in the fridge. It just makes life so much easier. So half a cup of cooked quinoa with half a cup of cooked brown rice and also half a cup of the black beans. But sometimes I forget to meal prep then I'll just cook some quinoa really quickly because it only takes 10 to 15 minutes to cook and I'll just do a cup of that instead of both of the other greens. Half a teaspoon of cooking oil, the juice from about half a lemon, half a teaspoon of onion powder, some chili flakes for some more flavor and sea salt and black pepper and just heat that up on the stove over a medium to high heat. Really easy. It's all already cooked so it just needs heating up and while that's heating up I'll just cut up some cherry tomatoes really quickly. I find this the easiest vegetable type food to add to a meal in a hurry. I use about half to one cup of cherry tomatoes and then also some fresh cilantro if I do have. I like this because it's a great way to add a lot of flavor really easily and it's also adding something green to the meal but it's still really easy. You can also use a little handful of baby spinach but it just won't have as much flavor and once the bean quinoa and brown rice mix is heated which only takes a few minutes, super quick, then I'll add that to a bowl and then I'll add the little cherry tomatoes and the cilantro to the meal too and you can add another little squeeze of fresh lemon juice and you're good to go. I mean sure it's not like a gourmet meal but it's so quick and so easy and full of nutrients. It's healthy, it's still tasty especially with the chili flakes. I love the chili flakes so it's one of my go-to dinners for when I'm really busy and I just need something super quick but still on the healthier side and still a bit tasty. This next one is what I call my gourmet spicy pepper chicken on toast. Okay it's not really that gourmet but it's fairly gourmet for toast. It's on the healthier side, really full of flavor and really easy to make. To start I've sized up half an onion and I'm just breaking that up a bit so that it cooks quickly. I like to use purple onion but you can use any onion and then I've also chopped up about half a medium red bell pepper. The finer you chop it the quicker it will cook just FYI so when I'm in more of a hurry I'll chop it up a bit finer than this. So in my pan I've got 100 grams of sliced up chicken breast meat. To that I'm adding the chopped up bell pepper and onion and then I'm adding a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. I use half a lemon then I'm using some pure tomato paste. I'm measuring now about two tablespoons of that into the pan and some chili flakes. You can leave this out if you don't like chili. I like to add a little pinch of cane pepper too. I like it spicy and then some sea salt and some black pepper and about half a teaspoon of cooking oil. You can just toss that all up and cook it on the stove over a medium to high heat until it cooks fully. Like I said earlier the smaller you know you cut up everything the faster it will cook as well and if it starts to look a little bit dry just add a little bit of water. It makes it more saucy. I probably add a little bit of water two or three times and when it's looking saucy and caramelized and delicious then it is ready. I have used my favorite whole raw flaxseed bread. Of course you can use whatever bread you'd prefer. I'd go for an unrefined whole grain kind of bread to make it healthier. I've toasted two slices of that and quite simple I'm just adding the spicy pepper chicken to the toast and serving all of it onto the two slices and this is my secret to making it look gourmet. I'm adding a little bit of fresh arugula on top and it instantly looks kind of gourmet and it adds some greens and some flavor and you can just use a little bit of fresh spinach on top if you'd prefer and that is also one of my current favorite easy healthy dinner recipes. Really delicious and pretty easy to make, slightly gourmet. Of course you can also serve the chicken recipe with brown rice or quinoa instead of the toast if you want to but I like using the toast as something a little bit different. Okay the last dinner idea that I'll be sharing with you guys today is my super super quick tuna avocado pasta recipe. To start I've got some gluten-free penne pasta. I'm adding the dry pasta to a pot of boiling water on the stove and letting it cook for about 10 to 12 minutes. Just follow the cooking instructions on your brand of pasta. Next I've got some tuna and some avocado. I use tuna in salt water and drain it first and I'm adding about half the can to a bowl with about half of an avocado and just smashing that all up with a fork really quickly. I'm using the juice from about half a lemon or so. I think it goes really nicely with the rest of the flavors and I'm also adding some Italian herb mix and about half a teaspoon of onion powder, sea salt and black pepper. You know how it goes and mix it all up. I do like to use quite a lot of lemon juice for this recipe so I often add some more as I go and you can also add some chopped up onion or some chopped up spring onion if you have a little bit more time or you want some more flavor and once that is all mixed up then I like to add a little bit of fresh baby spinach. I just chop it up a little bit and add it to the mix and then the should be ready. I add about a heaped cup or so of the cooked gluten-free pasta into the whole mix and just toss it up a bit and you can add a little bit of pepper on top if you'd like and that's another really quick healthy dinner. This one is actually really good with the pasta served hot and mixed in or you can wait until the pasta cools down a bit and then have it as more of a pasta salad. Both are really good and it's really easy to make. So I hope that you enjoyed that video. I hope that you enjoyed seeing some of my favorite quick easy to make dinner recipes. I hope that you enjoyed them. Let me know what your favorite one was below. Let me know if you want to try any of them or let me know what your favorite quick healthy dinner recipe is to make. All of these recipes will also be on my blog for you. There will be a link to that in the description box below for you. You can go check them out there and that's about it. 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