Healthy Recipes

This gorgeous tart uses coconut milk for its luscious, non-dairy filling and peanuts for a flavorful crust without using wheat flour.

This fall, enjoy vibrant, nourishing meals packed with colorful superfoods and satisfying proteins like this Riced-Broccoli Buddha Bowl.

This fall, enjoy vibrant, nourishing meals packed with colorful superfoods and satisfying proteins like this Sweet Potato Hash with Sunny-Side Up Eggs.

Ashtanga Yoga teacher, Kino MacGregor, founder of Omstars, loves to share a plate of edamame cakes when dining at vegetarian gastropub Soul Tavern in her home city of Miami Beach.

Yoga teacher Coral Brown can't get enough of local eatery, Oberlin, in Providence, Rhode Island. Here, owner and chef Benjamin Sukle shares his inventive spin on caesar salad.

Parched after a tough workout or a day in the sun? This refreshing, low-calorie beverage cools as it hydrates. Bell pepper is rich in vitamin C, while goji berries add protein and loads of antioxidants..

Try this recipe if you’re craving a bowl of sweet-and-sour Asian noodles but want to skip the gluten bomb. Veggie noodles pack extra nutrients into your diet, and you can serve leftover sauce with broccoli for a tasty afternoon snack!

Variety is one of the easiest ways to make meals more pleasurable, and this is a far cry from the same old steamed broccoli of your past. Harissa, an African chili paste, adds a kick, but you can also use sriracha or your go-to tomato salsa. Synonymous with love and the heart, rose petals add crunch and beauty, making this dish a sensual pleasure to behold.

This Ayurvedic dal soup recipe is tri-doshic and has warming spices to help your body transition from winter to spring.

Learn how to make smooth and creamy cashew cream to spread across your morning bagel breakfast or top your evening dessert.

Switch up your evening pasta for a delicious and nutrient-dense veggie bowl.

Learn how to make homemade almond milk in fifteen minutes.

Top your classic salad favorite with creamy homemade Caesar dressing.

Kick-start your day with this rich, creamy matcha smoothie instead of coffee to avoid disruptive caffeine highs and lows.

Rotate the seeds in this flaxseed cracker based on where you are in your menstrual cycle to see added benefits.

This jicama and pomegranate slaw is going to quickly become one of your favorites.

Yoga teachers Tias and Surya Little, founders of Prajna Yoga in Santa Fe, New Mexico, share their favorite meal for supporting health and vitality.

Need some inspiration for your holiday spread? These gluten-free protein muffins are made from almond and coconut flours and taste like a guiltier pleasure than they are.

This Ayurvedic soup recipe, from Sahara Rose Ketabi's new cookbook, Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook, will bring your Ajna (Third Eye) Chakra into balance with ingredients and hues that relate to each of the seven major energy centers.

This Ayurvedic soup recipe, from Sahara Rose Ketabi's new cookbook, Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook, will bring your Visuddha (Throat) Chakra into balance with ingredients and hues that relate to each of the seven major energy centers.

This Ayurvedic soup recipe, from Sahara Rose Ketabi's new cookbook, Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook, will bring your Anahata (Heart) Chakra into balance with ingredients and hues that relate to each of the seven major energy centers.

This Ayurvedic soup recipe, from Sahara Rose Ketabi's new cookbook, Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook, will bring your Svadhisthana (Sacral) Chakra into balance with ingredients and hues that relate to each of the seven major energy centers.

This Ayurvedic soup recipe, fromSahara Rose Ketabi's new cookbook, Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook, will bring your Manipura (Solar) Plexus Chakra into balance with ingredients and hues that relate to each of the seven major energy centers.

This Ayurvedic soup recipe, from Sahara Rose Ketabi's new cookbook, Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook, will bring your Root Chakra into balance with ingredients and hues that relate to each of the seven major energy centers.

Looking for a healthy alternative to top your Ayurvedic Soup? This Cashew Sour Cream from my new cookbook, Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook, will bring you into balance with ingredients and hues that relate to each of the seven major energy centers.

This kale salad is simple, redeeming, and delicious by design. It’s a great picnic salad, or more realistically, a great pack-for-work or dinner-after-indulgent-vacation salad. Don’t skip the celery—it’s a totally underrated component that offers some necessary crunch. Kale, quinoa, dried cranberries, almonds, and a mustard-spiked lemon dressing make for a wholesome and delicious salad.

These irresistible, coconut-dusted granola “bites” are lightly sweet, with a delicious combination of oats, nuts, and seeds inside. They are essentially my no-bake granola bars (a popular recipe on my blog) in ball form. I’ve learned that rolling the oats mixture into balls is way easier than slicing them into bars. Plus, they’re more portable this way.

Here’s a simple chickpea salad that I could eat every single day. It’s bursting with fresh Mediterranean flavors, thanks to chopped bell pepper, parsley, red onion, and celery. Lemon and garlic take it from tasty to transcendent. This salad packs well, so it’s perfect for potlucks and picnics. It’s also a great lunch option, so long as your serving is large enough. You can also pile it onto greens and drizzle some Liquid Gold Salad Dressing on top for a quick and substantial green salad.

Make these island-inspired treats with popsicle molds and sticks, or nix the sticks and use the frozen-fruit concoction as ice cubes in punch, 'ade, or iced tea.

For a smoother soup, peel your grapes: Slice a small X shape in the bottom of each grape and blanch in boiling water for 1 minute until skins start to peel away. Drain and let cool, then slip off skins.

This classic French salad is a go-to at our house. We prefer canned, sustainably caught tuna in water, or fillets of tuna in olive oil, instead of fresh tuna, which is milder in flavor.

This olive-scallion tapenade is great on toast or used as a dip.

This fennel salsa recipe is healthy and perfect for evening gatherings with friends.

This Nasturtium Pesto recipe is delicious and good for you, too!

You’ve done the hard work and patiently cultivated your nutritious ingredients. Now comes the fun part: using them in these tasty, spa-inspired recipes!

The combo of eggplant, fennel, tomato, and saffron—a mix common to Mediterranean and Provençal cuisines—delivers fresh flavor and myriad nutrients. The shrimp add satiating protein.

To save time, this recipe uses evaporated milk as a quick alternative to boiling whole milk.

The cooking of Western India often includes coconut. Add tamarind (a sour fruit) paste 
and all five of our healing spices, and you 
get a great balance of sweet, tangy, and fiery.

An aromatic main course served at weddings and other celebrations in East India, this flavorful Bengali dal contains four of our five featured healing spices, as well as panch phoron (a blend of five spices).

This simple soup from North India is spiked with warming spices, such as 
ginger and cinnamon, and served 
piping hot in winter and early spring.

High in filling, healthy fats and low in carbs, these delicious treats hit the sweet spot.

This recipe is a vegan version of the soupe joumou that Haitians devour on New Year’s Day. Each aromatic spoonful delivers veggies to energize your body.

This light dish can be topped with lemon zest for a burst of flavor, hunger-quashing pine nuts, and red pepper flakes to rev up metabolism.

Dress up your veggies and herbs with soba noodles that are made from buckwheat and supply more protein than other grains.

These whipped yams are cooked in warm, slightly oily coconut cream and they’re revered in Ayurveda for their calming effect on the gut.

This dish also features bitter Brussels sprouts that bring a light quality to a meal traditionally dominated by heavy, predominantly sweet dishes.

This chutney is sweetened by dates and heated by red chili, mustard seeds, and tomatoes—considered heating due to natural acids.

This hearty dish is a grounding combo of sweet, salty, sour, and astringent, making 
it a powerful way both to strengthen and nourish your tissue layers.

Deficiencies in magnesium, folate, and zinc have all been linked to depression. Get a healthy dose of these mood-supporting nutrients to feel your best.

This meal gives you 12 grams of fiber per serving and the trout is a source of omega-3 fatty acids, which help nerve cells in the brain communicate better.

Eggs are high in choline and vitamin B12, a nutrient that forms one of the principal brain neurotransmitters involved in learning.

Raspberries are among the fruits that pack the highest fiber content. When paired with an oat topping, each serving supplies 6 grams of fiber.

In this vegan flan, swap dairy for light coconut milk, tofu, and agar. Instead of heavily processed sugars, use maple syrup and Sucanat sugar.

Serve pico de gallo with a whole-wheat baguette instead of fried tortilla chips, and replace tomato with sweet mango. The avocado salsa adds healthy fats.

Instead of using rum and simple syrup, this recipe opts for summer fruits and chia seeds for a fiber boost in a watermelon mojito smoothie.

Arroz con pollo is a staple dish in every Latin-American household. Ramirez trades MSG for fresh oregano, turmeric, and saffron to achieve the same authentic flavor.

Bell peppers take on a new form in this dish, while nourishing your body with plant chemicals like beta-carotene and lutein, which may help support eye health and immune function.

Made up of more than 95 percent water, cucumbers are super hydrating and make a refreshing summer snack on hot days, especially when paired with juicy peaches and tomatoes.

Finally, a delicious use for broccoli stems, which happen to be just as nutritionally dense as the florets—supplying you with bone-supporting calcium and vitamin K, and immune-boosting vitamin C.

Sure to satisfy, this breakfast is packed with filling fiber and muscle-supporting potassium thanks to the potatoes, as well as heart-healthy fats from the avocado.

This cream of celeriac soup with oats recipe from the Natural Gourmet Institute is refreshing and tasty.