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Summer favorite recipes7/14/2023 Tip: Cook off a batch of these veggie burgers, and store them in the freezer. I serve them with a hearty, flavorful sauce like tzatziki or romesco and round out the meal with fresh pita. In summer, simple grilled veggies are my idea of the perfect weeknight dinner. Is it delicious? Heck yes! Olives, capers, and sun-dried tomatoes fill these zucchini noodles with bright and briny flavor. Zucchini Noodle Puttanesca, page 177 of Love & Lemons Every Day Summer dinner ideas don’t get simpler than this one! If you have an abundance of fresh basil on hand, feel free to make your own pesto, but if you don’t, the store bought kind works too. ![]() A simple blend of cashews, tomato paste, and marinara sauce, it’s healthy, fresh, and easy to make on a weeknight. Pssst! That creamy pasta sauce is totally dairy-free. Take this pasta – I call for summer squash, cherry tomatoes, and carrots in the recipe, but it works just as nicely with eggplant, peppers, or fennel instead. The summer recipes I love the most are the ones I can play with. ![]() I blend some corn kernels into the creamy, silky sauce and leave the rest whole for crunch! I’m obsessed with all summer dinner ideas that use sweet corn, but this one is really something special. They add rich, savory flavor to the simple combination of linguine, arugula, herbs, and fresh mozzarella cheese.Ĭreamy Sweet Corn Pappardelle, page 167 of Love & Lemons Every Day Slow-roasted tomatoes are the star ingredient in this elegant recipe. We selected these recipes with those basic criteria in mind while also trying to appeal to a wide variety of nutritional needs and taste buds.Want something to serve on the side? You can never go wrong with a simple green salad or good crusty bread. But it also depends on your preferences, your culture, what’s accessible to you, and so much more. At SELF, when we talk about food being healthy, we’re primarily talking about foods that are nutritious, filling, and satisfying. Not only can it mean different things to different people, it’s a word that’s pretty loaded (and sometimes fraught), thanks to the diet industry’s influence on the way we think about food. ![]() From refreshing salads to juicy grilled chicken and all the hearty side dishes in between, these healthy summer recipes are about to make food your favorite part of summer too.Ī note about the word healthy here: We know that healthy is a complicated concept. To help make your summer easier, healthier, and more delicious, we rounded up some of the best healthy summer recipes on the internet. No one wants to be hunched over the stove for hours on any day, but especially when all that cooking is wasting precious daylight. Most healthy summer recipes are also relatively quick and easy to make, which is ideal when you’re too busy enjoying the long, sunny days outside. Everyone’s making side dishes like dips and pasta salads-two wonderful things that I always wish were common year round (seriously, who says we have to save them for BBQs?) The weather is finally nice enough to stand outside and grill everything instead of cooking inside in a cramped kitchen. Tomatoes, watermelon, berries, peaches, and corn are abundant and ripe, making it so easy and satisfying to throw together healthy summer recipes. ![]() Summer is great for many reasons, but one of my favorite parts of the season is the food.
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