Pfeiffer - Superfood weeknight meals: healthy, delicious dinners ready in 30 minutes or less

More praise for Superfood Weeknight Meals: This cookbook is such a beauty! I love how vibrant, creative, and versatile the recipes are. Who knew superfoods could add so much fun to your everyday meals? Bravo! Ella Lech, author of Cut the Sugar Kelly has done it again with another fabulous superfood book! Filled with delicious recipes using real, fresh ingredients, this is the perfect cookbook for busy families who want to eat healthy. Buy this book. Your family will thank you. Alice Choi, food blogger at Hip Foodie Mom Kellys cookbook provides readers with countless satisfying and delicious weeknight options that also happen to nourish the body, leaving no excuses to not eat well. She turns even the traditionally heaviest of meals into light, nutrient-dense meals that people will want to make over and over again.

Kelly adapts the latest food trends, like spiralizing, to offer readers meals that will keep their taste buds guessing and their dinner guests impressed. If you want to cook more creatively and healthfully, look no further than Superfood Weeknight Meals. Ali Maffucci, author of New York Times best-selling cookbook Inspiralized Im lucky enough to own Kellys first superfoods book and cant wait to add this new edition to my bookshelf. Packed full of tasty and easy recipes, Ill definitely be using it for my weeknight menu! Gerry Speirs, creator of the blog Foodness Gracious You want to eat better, but between work and family, you just cant seem to find the time to cook healthy dinners every night. Sound familiar? I think a lot of us can relate to that. Kellys recipes overcome many of the obstacles we face at dinnertimeyou wont be spending an hour on prep work or traipsing all over town to find obscure ingredients, and you can rest assured that your family will actually eat these meals even though theyre (gasp!) healthy.

Kiersten Frase, founding editor of the blog Oh My Veggies Kelly has created many easy, wholesome weeknight options the entire family will like, showing that healthy food isnt boring when you put the right combinations together. Im so glad shes sharing her secrets with us. Heidi Larsen, creator of Foodie Crush Magazine

HEALTHY, DELICIOUS DINNERS
Ready in 30 Minutes or Less AVOCADO LENTILS SWEET POTATOES QUINOA ALMONDS EGGS SPINACH CITRUS FRUIT OLIVE OIL CAULIFLOWER Kelly PfeifferTo my daughter, lovingly referred to as Babycakes. So beyond thrilled to be your mom, your cook, and your friend.D oes this sound familiar? Its 6 oclock in the evening and you just got home from a long day at work. You feel pulled in a thousand directions and mentally exhausted. Youve dropped one kiddo off at soccer practice and are about to help another with math homework.

The last thing on your mind is putting together an elaborateand healthymeal. Heck, you count it as a win if you all just get fedand bonus points if theres a vegetable included. I get it. Life is super busy, especially during the week! And providing a healthy dinner seems daunting, if not impossible.Thats where this book comes in. What this cookbook shows you is how you canwithout much effortprovide nourishing foodssuperfoodsat every weeknight meal. Not weird, obscure foods, but everyday superfoods you already know and love. Each recipe here calls for simple ingredients that you can pronounce and find at all major grocery stores and takes 30 minutes or less to cook.

The only prep required is making a single batch of at the beginning of each week. The recipes are built around the following ten superfoods. Each recipe is labeled so you know which superfoods are used and can quickly decide what to cook based on whats in your refrigerator or what youre in the mood for. Well explore each of these superfoods in greater detail (see ): 1. Avocado2. Cauliflower3.

Citrus fruit4. Almonds5. Quinoa6. Olive oil7. Eggs8. Lentils9.

Sweet potatoes10. Spinach Whether youre adding spinach into pesto for pizza, lentils into a broccoli Cheddar soup, or sweet potato noodles into pad thai, every dish can easily include a powerful nutritional boost and still taste absolutely delicious. Say goodbye to the days of throwing a frozen premade lasagna or pizza into the oven or microwaving a can of chili. Once you start cooking from this book, therell be no turning back! Why? Because your family will love these quick, easy, and healthy weeknights meals, and youll love that theyre devouring them. When I started cooking this way, the biggest surprise for me was seeing how much my family loved eating healthy, nutritious foodsif I just made them. Why hadnt I done this sooner?! Since writing this book, my 5-year-old daughter has declared cauliflower as her favorite vegetable, begged me to send spinach salad to school in her lunchbox, and repeatedly asks for on the menu every week.

And my white riceloving husband has discovered that, when cooked well, quinoa and lentils are actually good!

As youll see, almost half of the recipes in this book are meatless. The rest are separated into chapters like chicken, beef, seafood, and breakfast for dinner. Choosing two to three meatless meals per week is not only good for our planet, but also good for our bodies and our wallets (meat is expensive!). But my family LOVES meat and my husband rolls his eyes any time he sees a meal without it, you say? The meatless meals Ive included in this book are hearty, full of plant-based protein and fiber to keep you full and satisfied, and, beyond that, they taste amazing. Even the meat lovers in your family will love these meatless options. All recipes have been tested, devoured, and approved by my wonderfully picky meat-loving husband and others around the country.

So, if you have someone similar living in your household, fear not!

I flirted with the idea of having an entire chapter dedicated to Sunday prep tasks that would set you up for success throughout the weekthings like cooking quinoa, roasting vegetables, baking sweet potatoes, and so on. But, as I spoke with other busy people, I found they didnt want to do a lot of work on the weekends, either. So, the only prep work required in this book is cooking a batch of quinoa and lentils one day a week so when a recipe calls for 1 cup (192 g) youll be ready. Sound fair? As a bonus, per reader requests, theres a small section at the end with nourishing superfood-packed desserts like .