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{Seven-Grain Salad with Italian Sausage, Peppers and Capers}

Pledging to eat healthier in 2015 is a noble endeavor, but one cannot live on poached chicken breasts and lettuce alone. Here, 12 nutritious – and delicious – recipes to help maintain your New Year’s resolve.

 

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{Poached Salmon with Mustard Sauce}

1. We all know fish is packed with heart-healthy fats, but some landlocked Midwesterners are still leery of cooking it themselves. This recipe for Fish en Papillotte is a foolproof method for cooking perfect fish fillets every time. Steam is also used to make this Poached Salmon slathered with a quick and easy mustard sauce. Ready for more a more advanced (but still super simple) cooking method? Quickly pan-sear a halibut fillet and serve with a textural medley of sides in this recipe for Halibut with Grapefruit Fennel Slaw.

 

2. Ramp up your protein intake sans meat with beans and other legumes. A spiced bowl of Curried Sweet Potatoes and Lentils makes for a quick, filling meal , or toss quinoa and lucky black-eyed peas in a spicy lime dressing for a Red Quinoa and Black-Eyed Pea Salad. Stomach growling? Pack together these Lentil, Chickpea and Quinoa Burgers to sate even the most famished appetite.

 

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{Kale Caesar Salad}

3. Still can’t get enough kale? Try a Kale Caesar Salad that eschews anchovies for seaweed. If you’re pressed for time, this Shrimp and Citrus Salad comes together in less than 10 minutes and adds a citrus spark to winter with grapefruit (adding some chopped avocado would not go amiss either), and humble roots can brighten any frigid January day in a Beet and Carrot Salad.

 

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{Warm Mushroom Salad}

4. If crunchy raw salads scream “rabbit food” to you, opt for a lettuce-less creation instead. Try a Warm Spiced Roasted Root Vegetable Salad studded with briny feta and crunchy pepitas or saute a mess of woodsy mushrooms for this Warm Mushroom Salad. We love to dig into this Seven-Grain Salad filled with Italian sausage, peppers and salty capers  (and yes, it counts as a salad!). the idea of

 

This article appears in January 2015.

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