21 Easy, Heart-Healthy Dinner Recipes

Love your whole grains with these easy, heart-healthy meals.

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15. Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Buddha Bowl

Enjoy the flavors and health benefits of almonds, quinoa, and fiber-filled broccoli and cauliflower. It’s so quick and easy to make that this tasty recipe may become one of your new favorite go-to easy dinner recipes that are heart-healthy.

16. Whole Wheat Pita Pizza

Yes, pizza can be healthy! This guilt-free pizza recipe uses whole-wheat pitas as its base. Feel free to add some other heart-healthy ingredients to your pizza, like chopped Brussels Sprouts, asparagus, or fresh tomatoes.

17. Herb Barley Salad

If you’ve never cooked with barley, this is the perfect recipe to begin with. This whole-grain is so good for your heart, and it tastes great, too, when tossed with fresh herbs, mushrooms, and lemon juice.

18. Salmon & Avocado Salad with Lemon Dressing

I absolutely love this grab-and-go salmon and avocado salad. It’s packed full of omega-3 fatty acids and heart-healthy fats, and you can prep it up in advance so it’s ready to eat. Perfect for those busy weeks when you don’t have time to cook dinner.

19. Slow Cooker Fully-Loaded Lentil Stew

We love cooking with lentils because they’re loaded with protein while also being naturally cholesterol-free. This warming soup couldn’t be easier to make – just throw the ingredients into the slow cooker and let it do the work for you!

20. Turkey Burger with Avocado Relish

Ground beef may not be the best choice for your heart because it’s full of saturated fat, but ground turkey is significantly leaner! Top it off with the healthy fats in avocado and you may never go back to all-beef burgers.

21. Pan Seared Salmon with Thai Vegetables

One of the things I love about salmon (other than its omega-3 fatty acid counts) is how versatile it is. You can cook it with just salt and pepper, or you can flavor it with Thai seasonings to create a tasty Asian-style stir fry. Delicious!

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Chef Lindsay

Lindsay D. Mattison is a professional chef, recipe developer, and food writer. After graduating from Cascade Culinary School, Lindsay worked as the executive chef of a farm-to-table restaurant in Bend, Oregon. She is passionate about using local, organic ingredients and loves teaching home cooks how to incorporate seasonal food into their diet. While she spends most of her time writing these days, she still exercises her culinary muscles on the regular, taking any opportunity to create beautiful meals for her family. She lives with her husband in Colorado, where she enjoys the trials and errors of gardening.

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