Dinner Recipes Done Light: 9 Tasty Options

In this quick and easy recipe, grated cauliflower is sautéed with aromatics, vegetables, soy sauce, and eggs, like Chinese-style fried rice. It’s a healthy, low-carb dish that’s hearty enough to serve as a main course.

Here’s a chili that you can feel good about eating. It’s loaded with veggies, chicken and beans — plus, it’s a one pot meal that you can have on the dinner table in under an hour.

This turkey meatloaf is generously seasoned with sautéed onions, garlic and a tangy-sweet barbecue glaze, which makes it full-flavored and satisfying.

This dish is similar to Larb Gai, the Thai dish made from minced chicken, fish sauce, lime juice, chilies, and fresh herbs. The combination of sweet, salty, tangy and spicy flavors makes it highly addictive. Bonus: it’s ready in 30 minutes.

Inspired by the flavors of Egypt, this barley salad is made with crunchy pistachios, tangy pomegranate molasses and cilantro, all balanced by warm, earthy spices and sweet golden raisins. It’s crowned with chunks of feta, scallions, and pomegranate arils.

The dish is really three stand-alone recipes in one: an easy, flavorful grilled chicken recipe; an addictively creamy green sauce that you’ll want to put on everything; and foolproof quinoa. The toppings are up to you.

In this recipe, adapted from Cooking Light, chicken thighs are seasoned with garlic, chili powder, cumin and smoked paprika, and then broiled with a sweet and tangy honey glaze.

Eggs for dinner? Yes, please! Most frittatas are dry and tough but this one is delicate and creamy, almost like a crustless quiche. Serve it with a salad or bowl of soup for a satisfying weeknight meal.

In this recipe, salmon fillets are quickly marinated in Thai sweet chili sauce, soy sauce and ginger, and then broiled until caramelized on top. Main courses simply do not get any easier, more delicious or elegant than this.