Among all meals, dinner is the most awaited and important meal of the day. After whole day’s busy schedule, one needs complete rest being at home and healthy Diet Recipes for Dinner can make it more pleasurable. This is time of enjoyment and relaxation after rushing through the breakfast and quick lunch. The diet recipes are appropriate for every time whether it is a planned dinner with friends or small family gathering. One can easily find as well as prepare hundreds of scrumptious and yummy recipes for dinner. One just requires right ingredients, right equipments and right methods to prepare the desired recipe in no time.
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1. Diet Recipes For Dinner
Though dinner is usually the heaviest meal consumed in the day, a large number of
health advocates recommend the inverted pyramid for eating our three daily meals.
They propose that dinner should be the lightest meal of the day, lunch in between and
breakfast the heaviest. Unfortunately, this is not as easy to observe as work,
preparation time and a lot of other factors get in the way. What’s commoner is a cup
of coffee in the morning, a sandwich with a soup or salad for lunch, and a heavy
dinner.
A paradigm shift and extra efforts should be taken to make changes for the better.
Start off by taking the time to eat breakfast. Just eating breakfast, whether it’s
healthy or not, is the first step to getting used to having something substantial to
break the fast after several hours of sleep. Eat a sensible lunch and for dinner, try out
healthy recipes that are easy to prepare and easy to digest as one normally has little
physical activity between dinner and going to sleep.
A heavy dinner could very well be a means to compensate for having no breakfast and
a lousy rushed lunch. It could be the mind telling the body that it needs something
substantial to make up for two meals lacking in satisfaction and nutrition.
When preparing your evening meal, keep it simple because the more complicated it is,
the more likely it is difficult to digest. Simpler food preparation also means less pots
and pans to wash! Options could be a pan-fried fish fillet, slice of chicken breast
without skin or lean pork scallopini pounded thinly to make it appear bigger and more
filling. Steam some brown rice of vegetables to serve as a side dish. Or better yet
prepare a raw organic salad of garden greens and low fat dressing. A bowl of hearty
soup served with crusty wheat bread is an excellent option for dinner on a cold winter
night. If you’re among the few who enjoys eating his or her vegetables, consider a
wholly vegetarian or even vegan dinner.
For dessert, go light with a slice of fruit. If you really have to have a more substantial
sweet dessert, take only half a portion and save the rest for the next day. Go easy on
the soda and drink fruit and vegetable juice or regular good old refreshing water
instead with a slice of lemon or lime!
2. Chicken Sausage Broccoli and Hash Browns
This is a simple and easy to prepare dish that is simply delicious. It's great for breakfast
with fried eggs, lunch with a salad, or dinner with salad or soup. It even makes a great
quick-to-make snack.
Servings: 4-6
Preparation Time: 7 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Recommended Wine: White or Red
Difficulty Level: Easy
Ingredients:
12 oz. package of Sweet Apple Chicken Sausage with Pure Vermont Maple Syrup (Al
Fresco offers a good product), 20 oz. hash browns (homemade or store bought), 2
cups of broccoli (broken into bite size pieces), 4 tablespoons butter, Salt and/or
pepper (to taste)
Preparation Instructions:
Slice the chicken sausage in rounds. In a skillet, melt 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the
sliced chicken sausage to the melted butter and cook to desired browning or
crispness. Once completed, remove the chicken sausage from the skillet and set to the
side. Put the broccoli in a microwaveable bowl with 2 tablespoons of water and cook
to desired crispness. Melt the other 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the hash browns to
the skillet and cook the hash browns to desired crispness. Add the chicken sausage
and the broccoli to the hash browns mix well, and season with salt and pepper, if
desired. Serve immediately. Serves 4-6.
3. Eggplant in Tomato-Wine Sauce
You can have this recipe on your table in just about 20-25 minutes and it can be
served with pasta or steamed rice. It’s a quick healthy lunch or dinner alternative in no
time.
Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Recommended Wine: 1/4 cup red wine
Difficulty Level: Average
Ingredients:
2 cups pasta shells, 1/3 cup water, 1/4 cup vinegar, 1 large sized, peeled and cubed
eggplant, 1 finely chopped onion, 1/2 cup chopped mushrooms, 1 chopped green bell
pepper, 1/2 cup chives – chopped, 2 tablespoon garlic - finely chopped/minced, 1 each
tomato - medium sized, chopped, 4 tablespoon tomato sauce, 4 tablespoon oregano,
Salt to taste, Black pepper to taste, 1/4 cup red wine
Preparation Instructions:
In a saucepan add some water and pasta shells, allow it to cook. In a separate bow add
water and vinegar and bring it to hot. To this add chopped eggplant, onion, chives,
garlic, green peppers, and mushrooms. Allow it to cook till; it should take about 15-20
minutes for it to cook. When vegetables are cooked add it to the done pasta along
with tomato sauce, oregano, salt, pepper and red wine. Stir and heat gently (on low).
4. Red Wine Risotto
Risotto is a famous and traditional Italian food and that is eaten for lunch or dinner. Its
flavor is more enhanced when wine is added to it.
Servings: 3
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 35 minutes
Recommended Wine: 2/3 cup red wine
Difficulty Level: Average
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 1 finely chopped onion, 3 cloves garlic – crushed, 1
1/2 cups well washed Italian risotto rice, Salt to taste, 4 1/2 cups vegetable stock, 2/3
cup red wine, 1 tomato - finely chopped, 1 cup parmesan, parmigiano- reggiano
cheese, grated - finely grated
Preparation Instructions:
Pour oil into a large saucepan and heat over a medium flame. Add onions and cook
until tender. Then add crushed garlic and cook until transparent. Mix in rice and salt,
stirring to mix the rice well. Add vegetable stock along with the wine. Stir and cook
until rice absorbs the liquid and is well cooked. Rice will form a creamy mixture in
about 20-30 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in cheese and serve with tomato and
sprinkled over it.
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