Recipes - Delicious & Healthy - Free Sample Library
Food and Health Communications’ recipes follow the DASH diet, Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations, and MyPlate guidelines. Unlike many magazines, cookbooks, bloggers, and influencers recipes, our recipes are designed to use less saturated fat, added sugar, and added salt. They are based on nutrient-dense, whole food. We also strive to use readily available, less expensive ingredients and normal everyday kitchen equipment. The creativity and flavor are sky-high! Let us know if you have questions or requests - we constantly create more!
Bang Bang Chicken Salad
We turned a classic Chinese street food into a delicious salad with peanut sauce, cold shredded chicken, and many crunchy veggies.
Farmer’s Market Salad
Wow, just wow. A trip to the farmer's market brings home this delicious salad that is easy to make any night of the week.
Mother’s Day Cake
Here is a strawberry yogurt cake for special occasions in spring and summer. It would make a wonderful Mother's Day cake!
Air Fry Dinner
Here is how to make a delicious air fry dinner using many summer garden ingredients.
Overnight Oats
Here is how to make overnight oats; all you need is milk, yogurt, flavorings, oatmeal, and fresh fruit. It is great for a snack, breakfast, or dessert.
Pretty Spring Greens Salad
A beautiful “local produce” salad with carrot roses, fresh edible flowers, spring greens, and fruit. The vital part of making this salad is finding local ingredients and having fun!
Bunny Carrot Muffins
These carrot muffins are great any day but when you add the carrot ears you have a healthy Easter treat.
Roasted Cauliflower and Hummus
Cauliflower is roasted with olive oil until it is tender. It is served over a thick layer of hummus and garnished with fried sage and pepitas.
Lentil Soup With Kale, Potatoes, and Mushrooms
This hearty soup cooks in 30 minutes. Lentils don't need soaking, providing a wealth of nutrients and fiber. The variety of veggies, including mushrooms, curly kale, carrots, and potatoes, make the soup an entire meal that is great for a weeknight.
Stir Fry with Tofu and Cashews Meatless
The trick to a good stir fry meal is to get everything ready ahead of time and to have a wok cooking over ample heat so the items are crisp-tender.
Meatless City Tacos With Walnut Filling
These tacos are delicious and easy, especially if you prep the ingredients ahead of time.
Jackfruit Sliders
Jack Fruit Sliders taste so delicious with their spicy sauce and “pulled” jack fruit. The filling is like pulled pork with a sloppy joe sauce. Enjoy!
Valentine Red Velvet Cake
This red velvet cake uses heart healthy fats, real beets, and chocolatey cocoa for a huge treat that is easy to make and tastes great. It is perfect for celebrations, Valentine’s day or any day.
Veggie Burger
This veggie burger uses a portabella mushroom with all of its umami taste sensations. It is topped off with crunchy fresh veggies and your favorite condiments.
Caribbean-African American Diaspora Dinner
Jerk Chicken, Caribbean Yellow Rice, Callaloo, and Spicy Okra are all dished up with Bahamian cornbread. This dish illustrates the "African diaspora," or worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. It celebrates the Deep South, Creole, and Caribbean cultures and their delicious dishes in a modern and celebratory way. Diaspora means "dispersed," which was both voluntary and involuntary in history.
Chicken Gobbler Bowl
Here's a bed of quinoa topped with veggies, winter squash or yams, and sliced roasted chicken. You can make everything ahead of time or use the recipe as a guideline to use up leftovers.
Portabella Mushroom Burger
Portabella mushroom burger is stacked full of veggies for a very hearty, juicy burger experience. But without the beef.
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