The Well Plated Cookbook: Fast, Healthy Recipes You'll Want to Eat

Erin Clarke's The Well-Plated Cookbook features a range of classic recipes with a healthier approach. I bought this cookbook after noticing many other Instagram accounts of the success of her dishes. I was not disappointed! From chapters on breakfast and party food, to soups, sandwiches, salads, and desserts, Clarke offers lessons on how to become a better cooks while also making healthy choices like using more fruits and vegetables and swapping in more nutritious ingredients. Along with recipes, there are sections on helpful topics like ideas for use of a can of chickpeas; ways to use Bolognese sauce; and many ways to make stuffed sweet potatoes. So many creative and healthful ideas! The photographs by Becky Hardin enhance the attractiveness of the dishes and present a goal for your own food photos. Recipes I have made to the acclaim of my family include: --Caprese Chicken Skillet: Sauteed chicken breasts are finished with balsamic vinegar, red onions and cherry tomatoes before being topped with fresh basil and mozzarella balls and additional drizzles of balsamic. --Italian Turkey Sausage Skillet with Farro, Greens, and Bean: Crumbled turkey sausage is sauteed with red onion, garlic before chopped kale, white beans, tomatoes, and farro are added to the skillet. The finished dish is a flavorful, one-dish meal perfect for an easy and healthy dinner. --5-Ingredient Maple Dijon Salmon: The easiest approach to cooking salmon perfectly with a coating of maple syrup, Dijon mustard and olive oil. A quick oven roasting yields a delicious entree. --Chicken Shawarma Wraps: An ideal way to make the most of leftover chicken. Shredded chicken is sauced with yogurt, a spice blend, and lemon juice before filling pita with hummus, sliced cucumbers, and feta. --Grammy's Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas: Another way to employ cooked chicken. Sliced peppers and onion and Mexican spices are mixed with shredded chicken to fill tortillas. The tortillas are topped with a cheese-yogurt sauce and homemade green enchilada sauce before being baked until bubbling. Garnishes include avocadoes and cilantro. --Autumn Sheet Pan Sausages with Apples and Harvest Vegetables: A combination of Brussels sprouts, red onion, garlic, sliced turkey sausage, sliced apples, and herbs are oven-roasted. Another easy and flavorful one-dish meal. There are many other recipes on my To Try list from The Well-Plated Cookbook. It is full of many promising approaches to familiar dishes. I recommend it to any level of cook, and it would be a great gift. A new favorite cookbook!

I love this book and the recipes! it changes from what i usually cook!!

Love this book. Erin thought of everything. She even gives ideas for how to jazz up any (unlikely!) leftovers.

I get better recipes from being on the Author’s e-mail list. Was hoping those recipes would have been in her book.

Lots of lovely new things to try, the few vectored have been easy and very tasty, clear instructions