Wellness Recipes
Sweet Potato Salad With Mango-Curry Dressing
Instead of white potatoes and mayonnaise, this potato salad features sweet potatoes (rich in beta carotene) and a spicy-sweet curried dressing.
1½ pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into...
Moroccan Carrot Salad
Warm spices, such as cumin, cinnamon, and coriander, are typical of many Moroccan dishes and marry well with the sweet carrots and currants in this salad. Timing alert: Although...
Manhattan Shellfish Chowder
James Beard once called Manhattan clam chowder “a vegetable soup that accidentally had some clams dumped into it.” Indeed many Manhattan chowders seem to be just that. Here we...
Summer Squash Parmesan
The problem with most baked dishes called “Parmesan” or “alla Parmigiana” is that the breaded ingredients are invariably pan-fried in a good deal of oil (or butter) before being...
Crab, Grapefruit & Avocado Salad
This main-course salad is similar to a classic dish called Crab Louis. The origins of the dish are disputed (several West Coast chefs have been credited with the invention),...
Recipe Creator: Appetizer Wraps
Flexible soft breads, such as whole-wheat flour tortillas and lavash, are the perfect vehicles for any number of filling ingredients. Pick ingredients from each of the four categories (or...
Tex-Mex Butternut Stew
The texture of the bulgur gives the impression that there’s meat in this hearty stew, and the butternut squash adds a hefty dose of beta carotene. Overall, the dish...
Beet & Tomato Borscht
Though all borschts—and there are hundreds of regional versions—include beets or beet juice, this peasant soup from Eastern Europe is fundamentally a blank canvas: sort of a “stone soup.”...
Smashed Potatoes
As our article on resistant starch discusses, potatoes (and other starchy foods) can have some rather unexpected benefits, making them good foods to bring (back) to the dinner table....
Chocolate Bundt Cake With Chocolate Glaze
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we offer this recipe for a healthier spin on chocolate cake. The secret ingredient in this cake is beets, which add fiber and the...
