Clean Eating Recipes

At Daniel’s Plate, all of our recipes follow the principles of clean eating—made entirely with wholesome plant-based ingredients that nourish your body from the inside out. To make it even easier for you to stay on track with your health goals, we’ve rounded up 20 of our favorite clean-eating recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. These meals are 100% whole food, plant-based (vegan), and packed with nutrients to support weight loss, boost energy levels, and promote overall wellness. Bonus: many of them are perfect for meal prep!

What is Clean Eating?

Clean eating is a way of eating that focuses on nourishing your body with whole, minimally processed foods as close to their natural state as possible. It emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds while avoiding refined sugars, artificial additives, and heavily processed ingredients. At its core, clean eating is about choosing foods that support overall health, energy, and well-being.

Split Mung Beans

This one-pot split mung beans recipe is high in protein, high fiber, low fat, and takes 30 minutes to make. This clean-eating favorite is sure to become a regular in your meal prep rotation.

Chickpea Sweet Potato Salad

This vibrant, nourishing, satisfying, and clean-eating chickpea sweet potato salad is the perfect combination of hearty and fresh, making it an excellent meal for lunch or dinner. Packed with roasted sweet potatoes, crispy chickpeas, and fresh greens and dressed in a beautiful vegan honey mustard, it’s a simple dish that delivers big on flavor and nutrition.

Asian Salad in a Jar

This Asian salad-in-a-jar recipe is packed with nutrient-dense ingredients like cabbage, cucumber, carrots, nori seaweed, kale, edamame, and whole grains. It's delicious, filling, healthy, gluten-free, and a meal prep favorite—supporting clean eating throughout the week. 

Kale and Quinoa Salad

This kale and quinoa salad is hearty and flavorful, and packed with whole plant food ingredients. This clean-eating salad has roasted chickpeas and a creamy, smoky, spicy chipotle cream sauce that makes this salad over the top delicious.

White Bean and Kale Soup

This deliciously creamy, fast, and easy one-pot white bean kale soup is clean-eating and will keep you satisfied and energized. It's vegan, packed with protein, low-fat, gluten-free, nut-free, oil-free, and a meal-prep favorite.

Kale Lentil Salad

This kale lentil salad is hearty, nutrient-packed, and delicious. It's easily made with plant-based protein, vibrant veggies, and a creamy tahini lemon garlic sauce.

Nourish Bowl

This plant-based nourish bowl is as pleasing to the taste buds as it is to the eyes. Each component of this bowl is carefully chosen to provide essential nutrients that support overall health. This recipe is gluten-free, oil-free, and absolutely delicious. Clean eating at its best!

Green Lentil Bolognese

Green Lentil Bolognese is a deliciously hearty and healthy, clean-eating version of the traditional meat-based bolognese. Packed with protein and fiber, this whole food, plant-based recipe is gluten-free, oil-free, soy-free, nut-free, low-fat, and vegan.

Banh Mi Salad

This vegan banh mi salad is bursting with flavor! The spicy jalapeno lime aioli sauce is so good. Made with whole plant food ingredients, this healthy, clean eating bowl is satisfying, gluten-free, oil-free, and great for meal prep.

Vegan Black Bean Tacos

Who would've thought that black bean tacos would be considered clean eating? These tacos are made with walnut taco meat, black beans, and corn tortillas. Topped with shredded cabbage, diced tomatoes, and cashew cream sauce, these tacos are a home run! 

Southwestern Salad in a Jar

This Southwestern Salad in a Jar has changed the meal prep game, y’all! Gone are the days of not having healthy options on the go and preparing salads in one container ahead of time, only to find it wilted, soggy, and discolored. This tasty, clean-eating salad is oil-free, gluten-free, and soy-free.

Quinoa Breakfast Bowl

This vegan quinoa breakfast bowl is loaded with powerhouse ingredients. This clean-eating bowl is vegan, gluten-free, and soy-free and will help you get the day started right!

Curried Butter Beans

These creamy curried butter beans are packed with protein, fiber, and flavor. The comforting spices in this Indian butter beans recipe will make you want to go back for seconds. Toss in a handful of baby spinach, and you'll be checking all the clean-eating boxes.

Mushroom Barley Soup

This delicious mushroom barley soup is one of our favorite clean-eating soups that's great for weight loss! It's high in protein, low-fat, soy-free, nut-free, oil-free, and great for meal prep. You can easily make this soup gluten-free by swapping out the barley for sorghum.

Veggie Chili

This Veggie Chili is my ultimate go-to fav, and I'll eat it no matter what the weather is doing outside. With three different beans and lots of veggies, this meal is vegan, gluten-free, oil-free, and soy-free, and it is a clean-eating meal prep favorite!

Muriwo Unedovi (Peanut Butter Greens)

Muriwo Unedovi, sometimes called peanut butter greens, is a traditional Zimbabwe dish that combines a leafy green veggie of your choosing and a peanut butter sauce. This African-style greens in a sweet and spicy peanut sauce dish will ignite your taste buds. It is vegan, oil-free, gluten-free, and soy-free.

Red Lentil Dal

This red lentil dal recipe is vegan and super easy to pull together. It's great on it's own or over rice. If you want to take it up a notch, wilt a handful of baby spinach or chopped rainbow chard and top with diced tomato. But you can't go wrong with this dish. It's loaded with protein, fiber, iron, and zinc. Since there's no added oil, it's also low in fat.