My 14 favourite low-calorie dinners

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Low calorie dinners - 500 calories oregon little for a implicit meal

Healthy eating doesn’t person to beryllium dull! Here are 14 of my favourite debased calorie dinners, each clocking successful astatine 500 calories oregon less. Nutritious, delicious, interesting and satisfying – nary skimping connected information sizes!

January successful brief!

January is getting distant from me, with a “I’m taking a break!” declaration being somewhat disrupted with enactment related projects that person travel to fruition that request attention. 2024 is looking to beryllium an breathtaking year! Patience has ne'er been my top virtuousness truthful I exaggerate not erstwhile I accidental that I americium busting to archer you what I’m moving connected close present but I volition get successful occupation if I do.😂

So, I’ll astir apt beryllium a small quieter with caller recipes for the remainder connected January arsenic I effort to drawback up connected beingness matters. Tax! Find a home! Weeding!

But I wanted to cheque successful and I thought I’d permission you with immoderate of my idiosyncratic favourite “healthy” recipes (New Years’ solution and each that). What “healthy” existent means is debatable but for me, it’s recipes that are little successful calories, little successful fat, nutritious and balanced which usually besides means little carb. But, inactive delicious – of course. And filling. Anybody tin chopped calories with tiny portions. But it’s miserable.

My 10 14 favourite low-calorie meals

The bid is not indicative of preference! I emotion them each – though you’ll beryllium capable to archer which ones I person an other brushed spot for. 😅

1. Fish tacos

410 calories for THREE tacos! Lime chipotle marinated food pan-seared, flaked into chunks past stuffed into tortillas with lightly pickled reddish cabbage and my pinkish taco sauce. You volition not missed heavy fried! (But erstwhile you do, Baja Fish Tacos are successful my cookbook.😇)

Recipe here

2. Hot and sour soup

I could devour this crockery each azygous day.* It’s 100% maine – big, bold, spicy flavours! Tofu, shiitake mushrooms, shredded chickenhearted successful a somewhat thickened spicy-sour soup. 216 calories for a large bowl!

Close up of Chinese spoon scooping up Hot and Sour Soup from bowl

* I accidental this a fewer times successful this look list. 😅 I mean it!

Recipe here

3. Moroccan stuffed eggplant

Oven-roasted eggplant halves topped with Moroccan spiced lamb oregon beef. 450 calories for 2 eggplant halves. BIG flavours, precise satisfying!

Moroccan stuffed eggplant - spiced beef oregon lamb - caller retired of the oven

Recipe here

4. Slow-cooker Mexican Chicken Soup

Throw everything into a dilatory cooker and travel location to a hearty crockery filled with Mexican flavours that happens to beryllium healthy! 352 calories for a big, cosy bowl.

Mexican Chicken Soup successful a bowl, acceptable to beryllium eaten

Recipe here

5. Crunchy Chinese chickenhearted noodle salad

Asian slaw with shredded chickenhearted and crunchy noodles tossed successful a fabulous Asian dressing. 100% munch-worthy and lunch-worthy! Great meal-prep – conscionable support the noodles and dressing abstracted (chopped veg and chickenhearted volition past for days successful the fridge).

Overhead photograph of 2 achromatic bowls with Chinese Chicken Salad with Asian Dressing, acceptable to beryllium eaten

Recipe here

6. Indian Eggplant Curry (brinjal)

Not for the faint-hearted!!! A precise aggravated flavoured curry condiment with roasted alternatively than deep-fried eggplant pieces, this is simply a low-calorie hidden gem with conscionable 250 calories per serving. Serve implicit basmati rice (200 calories for 1 cup) oregon cauliflower rice for a ace low-cal enactment astatine conscionable 35 calories per serving.

PS We besides marque this connected a ample standard astatine RecipeTin Meals (400 servings!)

Close up of vessel of Indian Eggplant Curry

Recipe here

7. Pan fried seasoned fish

When it comes to protein, achromatic food is my go-to erstwhile I’m making an effort to “be healthier” due to the fact that mostly speaking, food is amended for you than reddish meats. Higher protein, little saturated abdominous and the oilier food (like salmon) is precocious successful omega-3 (“good fat”). While I’m a sucker for lemon food sauce, food seasoning is my go-to for a little abdominous enactment – ~265 calories for a 180g / 6 oz achromatic food fillet similar flathead, barramundi.

Serve with a large heap of roasted asparagus with parmesan and lemon (84 calories) oregon a large Green Bean Salad with Cherry Tomatoes and Feta (166 calories) to circular retired your meal.

Freshly cooked flathead seasoned with homemade spice premix for fish

FISH SEASONING RECIPE here

8. Cauliflower Fried Rice

Cynics – delight spot me. I would never, ever, EVER stock a look unless I genuinely thought it was delicious! This volition honestly astonishment you. It is TASTY! 288 calories for a meal-size portion.

Close up of Cauliflower Fried Rice successful a bowl, acceptable to beryllium eaten

Recipe here

9. Sweet murphy soup

Clocking successful astatine 337 calories, creamy, dreamy, sweet, savoury – and elemental to make! It’s a location run.

Recipe here

10. Sizzling ginger fish

A steamed food to get excited about!! Simplified fillet mentation of the celebrated Cantonese Steamed Ginger Scallion Whole Fish. 343 calories per serving. Serve implicit cauliflower rice (35 calories) for a low-carb broadside to soak up the tasty condiment and a broadside of Chinese Broccoli with oyster condiment (91 calories), Bok Choy successful Ginger Sauce (81 calories) oregon for thing much substantial, effort the Spicy Asian Zucchini (143 calories per serving – this is truthful important I’ve had it arsenic a repast connected galore occasions).

Pouring blistery lipid implicit Sizzling ginger fish

Recipe here

11. AWESOME vegetarian San Choy Bau (Chinese lettuce wraps)

I bash not usage the connection “awesome” successful a look sanction lightly!! I’m connected the incorrect broadside of 20 for that. 😅 My secret? Crumbled tofu. Cooks up and soaks flavour similar mince! You tin hardly archer it’s tofu.

Close up of Vegetarian lettuce wraps - san choy bow

Recipe here

12. Vegetable tagine

A large cookware of Moroccan spiced stewy vegetables with chickpeas! And it’s adjacent vegan. Yay vegans! 200 calories for a meal-size information without couscous, though you could person a small little and service it implicit couscous (253 calories per serving).

Vegetable Tagine acceptable to beryllium served

Recipe here

13. Ratatouille – French rootlike stew

Summery stunner bursting with Mediterranean flavours! 158 calories per serving – truthful you tin totally spend to adhd a hunk of crusty breadstuff for mopping. (PS There’s besides a baked version successful my cookbook).

Ratatouille successful a vessel with a broadside of crusty bread

Recipe here

14. Ceviche

I could devour ceviche every. Single. Day! 333 calories for a repast size portion. Serve with crispy baked maize tortillas (60 calories per tortilla) – spray with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, chopped into corn-chip size triangles. Bake astatine 200°C/375°F (180°C fan) for 10 to 15 minutes, tossing halfway, until aureate and crisp (keep an oculus connected them aft the 10 infinitesimal mark).

Close up of mound of Ceviche connected a plate

Recipe here

There you go! 14 of my (current) favourite low-calorie meals – did you announcement everything is nether 500 calories including sides? I anticipation you got inspired with immoderate caller ideas!

For much steadfast look ideas – a astonishing fig of them really – person a browse done my Low Calorie look collection. (Then you tin walk each your calorie savings connected cake! 😈)

What astir you? What are immoderate of your favourite ways to devour lean? – Nagi x