10 best healthy dinner ideas

A healthy dinner doesn't need to mean boring. We've rounded up 10 of our favourite healthy dinner ideas to keep you happy and satisfied.

By The Good Housekeeping Cookery TeamPublished: 09 January 2015

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Healthy salmon burgers

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Step away from the beef pattie and opt for salmon instead. No breadcrumbs or egg are needed to hold these satisfying burgers together.

Recipe: Healthy salmon burgers

Healthy fish chowder

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Adding just a drizzle of cream makes this soup velvety yet still calorie-controlled.

Recipe: Healthy fish chowder

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Cod with smoky tomato lentils

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In need of a hearty healthy fill? This cod and lentil dish is just what you need.

Recipe: Cod with smoky tomato lentils

Moroccan ragout with couscous

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A delicious Moroccan-inspired healthy dish

Recipe: Moroccan ragout with couscous

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Detox chicken salad

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Simple to put together and crammed with good-for-you ingredients, this super salad is sure to restore the spring in your step.

Recipe: Detox chicken salad

Broccoli and courgette shells

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This tasty pasta dish is bursting with healthy green veg.

Recipe: Broccoli and courgette shells

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Baked haddock risotto

Oven-cooking this healthy risotto means there’s no standing and no stirring involved.

Recipe: Baked haddock risotto

Halibut with roasted beetroot

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For a delicious dinner party dish, try this healthy no-fuss fish recipe

Recipe: Halibut with roasted beetroot

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Griddled vegetable and halloumi salad

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A winning combination of flavours in a salad that’s both healthy and filling

Recipe: Griddled vegetable and halloumi salad

Chicken and barley stew

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This hearty but healthy stew is low in fat but high on the satisfaction scale

Recipe: Chicken and barley stew

The Good Housekeeping Cookery Team

An experienced and highly skilled team of food writers, stylists and digital content producers, the Good Housekeeping Cookery Team is a close-knit squad of food obsessives. Cookery Editor Emma Franklin is our resident chilli obsessive and barbecue expert, who spends an inordinate amount of time on holidays poking round the local supermarkets seeking out new and exciting foods. Senior Cookery Writer Alice Shields is a former pastry chef and baking fanatic who loves making bread and would have peanut butter with everything if she could. Her favourite carb is pasta, and our vibrant green spaghetti is her weeknight go-to. Lover of all things savoury, Senior Cookery Writer Grace Evans can be found eating crispy corn and nocellara olives at every opportunity, and will take the cheeseboard over dessert any time (though she cannot resist a slice of tres leches cake). With a wealth of professional kitchen know-how, culinary training and years of experience between them, they are all dedicated to ensuring every Good Housekeeping recipe is the best it can be, so you can trust they’ll work (and if they don’t – we’ll have the answer for why*) every time (*90% of the time the answer is: “buy an separate oven thermometer”!).

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