Root vegetables are notoriously shamed for their high starch and sugar content, but coming up with balanced meal ideas is easier than you think! Below are three really easy recipes you can make on the fly with just a few added ingredients.
Category: Easy Healthy Recipes
In the easy healthy recipes below, learn many different ways to cook and enjoy the bounty from your vegetable garden, with unique ways to cook some of the more exciting and obscure garden vegetables.
Is there anything more soul-soothing than going out into your garden to pick fresh peppers or tomatoes to wash and chop up for dinner? Garden-to-table dining is right at your fingertips when you become a food gardener and start making our easy healthy recipes.
Beyond the delicious benefits of growing your own food to make easy healthy recipes, you benefit from choosing what to grow and the unique varieties you can’t find in a grocery store, which can lift your culinary spirits. Take heirloom vegetables, for example. Even though they aren’t bred for it specifically, heirloom varieties are adaptable to their environment, meaning you can save seeds, and each year you’ll likely get healthier plants that are more resistant to disease and pests. The more you grow them, the better they get.
Even if you don’t have a lot of space to work with, you can start a kitchen garden (a smaller garden that mostly has herbs and a few choice veggies) or a container garden (great for growing indoors, on patios, and balconies). You’d be surprised how much you can grow in a small amount of square footage, especially with plants that climb.
If you love to cook easy healthy recipes, you’ll do well to plant an herb garden and even a spice garden so you can always harvest fresh herbs and spices on hand. Then, let your palate guide the rest of what you plant. Tomatoes become tomato sauces and catsups, cucumbers become pickles, lettuce becomes salads, onions and garlic go with just about everything, and a bounty of squashes will serve roasted squash all winter long!
We have lots of garden-fresh easy healthy recipes below, and we welcome you to also read our Recipes from Your Garden freebie. Enjoy!
Butternut squash noodles aren’t the typical type of voodle (vegetable noodle) that comes to mind when you think of gluten-free noodle alternatives. And if we were talking about covering it in tomato sauce, we’d be on the same page. However, a gluten-full recipe I’ve always loved is butternut squash raviolis in a maple cream sauce, so I thought to myself: why not just use butternut squash noodles?
Double the honey, please! Roasted Honeynut Squash has been a favorite for me this season. They are just so cute, easy to peel, and have such a sweet flavor that they taste like a mini concentrated butternut squash—which is exactly how they were designed!
As a kid, I played this game with my friend where we’d blindfold each other and take random food or condiments from the fridge and get the other person to guess what it was. It would always end in tears when one of us reached for the hot sauce. All of this by way of saying, I’ve always been interested in weird things you can actually eat.
As a mom of a busy toddler, I know the struggle to come up with quick healthy meals, so I have a lot of love for anything I can throw on a baking sheet like this roasted butternut squash and onions dish. While the squash and onions are roasting, you can make the rice, and then toss it together for a complete vegetarian meal.
Did you know that carrots were originally purple, yellow, and sometimes white? But in the 1700s the orange carrot was born, and it was preferred because it had higher amounts of beta carotene. Fascinating, right? Well, the Honey-Glazed Carrots recipe I’m going to share with you today is so flexible that you can make it with orange carrots, yellow carrots, or purple carrots. You can also mix it up and add parsnips!