Healthy Dinner Recipes Week One

Healthy Dinner Recipes

Healthy Dinner Recipes Week One

This week’s healthy dinner recipes include meals that can be eaten with your hands (kids always love that). From burritos to burgers and even kebabs, the variety is deliciously interesting!

Enjoy a full week worth of healthy dinner recipes including entrees and side dishes.

Day One Healthy Dinner Recipe

RICE & BEAN BURRITOS
BUTTERED CORN

Rice & Bean Burritos

Makes 4 servings of burritos

Each serving contains:
416 calories
12g protein
76g carbohydrate
8g total fat

Ingredients:

1 cup cooked brown rice
1 cup cooked black beans, rinsed and drained if canned
1 ½ teaspoons minced canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
2 red bell peppers, thinly sliced
1 carrot, thinly slice diagonally
1 Tablespoon olive oil
½ teaspoon salt
4 (10 inch) fat free flour tortillas

Directions:

1. Combine the rice, beans, and chipotles in microwave safe bowl and mix well. Cover with plastic wrap and microwave on high power until hot, about 4 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes. Set aside.

2. Combine the bell peppers, carrot, and oil in another microwave safe bowl and toss to coat. Add the chili powder and salt, toss to mix. Cover with plastic wrap and microwave on high power until softened, about 4 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes.

3. Warm the tortillas as package label directs and lay out on a work surface. Spoon the rice mixture across the center, and top with the vegetable mixture.

4. Fold the bottom end upward, covering the filling by 2 inches. Tightly fold both sides inward, overlapping slightly. Wrap the top side over.

Serve with lightly buttered corn.