Favorite clean eating dinner recipe?

Everyone has a different idea of what clean means. For some it means (among other things) nothing processed or refined beyond the minimum, but that isn't what it means to me. (which brings me to why I even raise it....)

My absolute favorite clean recipe is salsa chicken. I use spicy salsa from a jar (some might not consider that clean) and frozen chicken breasts, throw both in the crockpot while I'm at work all day, and shred it when I get home. You can eat it over veggies, potato, rice, or throw it on a wrap. It's crazy versatile and very tasty.

I have no idea how to answer this question, because I have no idea what "clean eating" is. I tend to follow Michael Pollan's advice: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. By "food," Pollan means something that our grandparents (or great-grandparents, if you're young) would have recognized as food: no TV dinners, Twinkies, nutrition bars, etc.

My dinner last night was penne with a sauce of diced sautéed red peppers, petite peas, diced prosciutto, light cream, and parmesan, followed by a salad. It took me 30 minutes to make the pasta and sauce, but much of that was unattended cooking time while I watched TV and did a little more during the commercial breaks. Once you have a repertoire of 5-15 quick meals that you have prepared over and over again, you learn how to do things on autopilot and they don't seem that daunting.

Gourmet magazine published a couple of cookbooks that have recipes that taste good and don't take much time: Gourmet's Quick Kitchen and Gourmet's In Short Order. I use them a lot, for recipes and for inspiration.

I also make huge vats of soup and stew every few months, then parcel them out into individual servings and freeze them. Then dinner's just a matter of thawing and reheating, and adding bread and salad.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for but here is a few recipes:

An easy recipe for me is:
4 frozen chicken breast
1 pkg taco seasoning
1 pkg ranch dry mix
1 jar of salsa
Cheese

Spray crockpot with pam then place frozen chicken. Mix the remaining ingriendient excluding cheese. Pour over chicken and cook 4-6 hours. Take a fork and shred chicken then add cheese. Delicious! You can eat by itself or on Joseph's pita bread--low carb,fat and calories. Very good. I toast my pita bread in a skillet by spraying pam in it and toast each side or fold it and toast it.


Roast

Place roast in crockpot after seasoning with season salt and S&P, --Add veggies (carrots, celery, onions...)
Optional: Lipton onion soup mix beef flavor
Cook 6-8 hours--Roast will fall apart


Marinate Chicken breast in Zesty Italian Dressing (4-6 or over night)--Then grill, bake or with light Olive oil cook. I cook mine in my Nuwave Oven so oil is not needed. Very good and hardly no prep time.



Cream cheese pancakes
208 calories, 6.6 carbs, 6.2 sugar and 20 protein

2 oz fat free cream cheese
2 eggs
1/2 tsp cinommon

Mix and pour in HOT skillet. They are best if skillet is hot--they make fuller pancakes when skillet is hot. Thin if not.
Top with sugar free coolwhip or cinommon, fresh fruit, peanut butter.

Make up brown rice. While that's cooking I 'sautee' mushrooms, chopped bell pepper and diced onion in water and spices (salt, pepper and garlic powder). When rice is done mix veggies in and add a splash of soy sauce. You can also add sliced carrots and cooked peas. Tastes great and very filling.

spaghetti squash is my favorite
you cut it in half and take the seeds out brush the flesh with olive oil and put skin up roast at 350 for about 30-45 mins and then I will add ground turkey cheese marinara maybe some veggies anything you would put on spaghetti.

Boiled and shredded chicken breast, oven roasted potatoes, diced avocados and mexican-style salsa. Super yummy!