10 Best HelloFresh Low Sodium Recipes 2023: Try it Out

You’re interested in HelloFresh, but you’re also trying to keep your sodium levels down. Are there any HelloFresh low sodium recipes?

While HelloFresh doesn’t have a dedicated low-sodium plan, it offers an online cookbook with instructions for many meal kits. These recipes (and all HelloFresh menu items) include complete nutritional information, so it’s easy to find delicious lower-sodium meals.

I’ve studied those recipes and weighed customer feedback to bring you HelloFresh’s best low-sodium recipes. I’ve also consulted with my colleague who found that the recipes were well outlined and resulted in super tasty meals.

If you like the recipes on this list, you’ll love a HelloFresh subscription. Read on for a guide to the best HelloFresh low-sodium meals you can eat!

The Best HelloFresh Recipes Reviewed

1. Salmon en Papillote with Couscous Pilaf – Best HelloFresh Low Sodium Recipe

Key Features

• 90 mg sodium per serving

• Total cooking time: 30 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Easy

With only 90 mg of sodium, HelloFresh’s Salmon en Papillote with Couscous Pilaf and Asparagus is HelloFresh’s #1 low-sodium recipe. The elegant tarragon chive sauce makes this dish something you’d expect in a restaurant. But making this dish couldn’t be easier.

All you need are a baking sheet and some aluminum foil. Wrap the salmon in foil packets, then roast it with the asparagus. Put it atop some couscous, sauce it with chopped tarragon and chives in olive oil, and dinner is served! It may be low in salt, but this meal is certainly not short on flavor or nutrition.

One of the great things about meal delivery services is they can teach you tasty new ways to enjoy your dinner while sticking to your diet. Once you learn how to cook meals like this, you’ll never miss the salt.

2. Garlic Lime Chicken with Avocado Tomatillo Salsa – Best Low-Sodium Mexican Recipe

Key Features

• 140 mg sodium per serving

• Total cooking time: 35 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Medium

Tomatillos are one of Mexico’s best-kept secrets. Peel back their papery outer husks and they look like tiny green tomatoes. Bite into one and you get a tart, bright blast of citrus flavor. Roast them, as in this recipe, and you get a sweet, tart, smoky sensation.

This recipe combines roasted tomatillos with avocado, shallot, garlic, and hot-sweet jalapeno. (Add this one to taste, or leave it out if you don’t like the heat). The chicken is rubbed with a mix of honey, garlic, and lime zest, briefly pan-fried, then finished in the oven.

Rated as Medium difficulty, Hello Fresh’s Garlic Lime Chicken requires you to keep an eye on a couple of things as they’re cooking simultaneously. Pay attention and follow the instructions and you’ll be rewarded with a low-sodium Mexican flavor experience.

3. Hoisin Sriracha Pork & Pineapple Stir-Fry – Best Low-Sodium Asian Recipe

Key Features

• 410 mg sodium per serving

• Total cooking time: 20 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Easy

While we love Asian food, all too often it contains MSG. HelloFresh’s Hoisin Sriracha Pork and Pineapple Stir-Fry has all the great taste you love, but none of the high sodium worries that come with takeout. And with its one-pan preparation, making this dish is easier than finding a menu!

After you brown ground pork, chopped long green pepper, and pineapple, you pour in a mixture of sriracha, hoisin sauce, and pineapple juice. Serve this atop nutty black rice studded with sesame seeds and scallion greens. It’s sweet, savory, and contains just 410 mg of sodium.

Prepping this meal takes around five minutes. Throw in 15 minutes to prepare it and you’ve got a meal that’s ready to eat in less time than it takes for a delivery person to arrive.

4. Pan-Seared Chicken with Herbs de Provence – Best Low-Sodium French Recipe

Key Features

• 390 mg sodium per serving

• Total cooking time: 30 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Easy

Many people think low-sodium meals must be bland. But you can add many different tastes to your food. HelloFresh’s Pan-Seared Chicken with Herbes de Provence is easy to cook, yet gives your tastebuds a sweet, sour, and savory taste explosion with only 390 mg of sodium.

Instead of salt, this tasty chicken recipe relies on herbes de Provence. This blend of tarragon, lavender, fennel, and a few other spices has a complex flavor palate that works on anything from savory to sweet dishes and will likely become a staple in your kitchen.

After sprinkling chicken breasts with herbes de Provence, you cook it in a pan and serve it atop a base of nutty farro (a nutritious high-protein grain) mixed with minced shallots, mozzarella, and Roma tomatoes, then drizzled with sweet and sour honey and balsamic vinegar dressing.

5. Country Gravy Pork Chops – HelloFresh’s Best Southern Low-Sodium Recipe

Key Features

• 350 mg sodium per serving

• Total cooking time: 30 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Easy

Southern cooking has a reputation for being tasty but unhealthy. And while some Southern dishes can be salt bombs, this tasty plate of Country Gravy Pork Chops comes in with lots of nutrients and only 350 mg of sodium.

Collard greens, a Southern staple, add fiber, flavor, and lots of vitamins A and C. And while many Southern recipes are tasty but fatty, this recipe uses oven-roasted diced potatoes and a lean, tender pork chop.

When you’re done roasting the potatoes, this recipe instructs you to salt and pepper to taste. Note that this salt content isn’t included in the sodium count.

One-eighth of a teaspoon of salt contains a bit under 300 mg of sodium, so if you sprinkled that over a 2-serving meal you’d still have a quite acceptable 500 mg sodium per serving. Alternatively, you could use a salt substitute of your choice.

6. Vegetarian Paella with Sweet Peppers & Mushrooms – Best Low-Sodium Veggie Recipe

Key Features

• 241 mg sodium per serving

• Total cooking time: 40 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Medium

If you want to get more vegetables in your diet, HelloFresh’s Vegetarian Paella with Sweet Peppers, Mushrooms, and Rosemary is a classic crispy-crusted 100% plant-based paella that comes in at just 241 mg of sodium per serving.

This is one of HelloFresh’s Medium difficulty recipes. You’ll need to do a good bit of chopping, and you also need to add and remove ingredients at different times. While the instructions are clear, make sure you have everything you need for each step of the process before you start.

HelloFresh offers a Vegetarian menu, and also has many choices for those who want to eat more vegetables and fewer red meats. This Vegetarian Paella is a healthy and delicious introduction to vegan cooking and a great way to increase your plant intake.

7. Mediterranean Skillet Chicken w/Bulgur Paella – Mediterranean Low-Sodium Meals

Key Features

• 297 mg sodium per serving

• Total Cooking time: 30 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Easy

HelloFresh prepares this paella with bulgur, a nutritious, fiber-filled grain that cooks up tender and chewy in this recipe. And while its Vegetarian paella was inspired by Spanish cuisine, this one looks to Mediterranean North Africa and musky, sweet dried apricots.

While this recipe isn’t difficult to cook if you follow instructions, you need to make sure you have a zester and peeler on hand. That’s because this skillet chicken relies on the bright floral tang of lemon zest.

While HelloFresh rates this recipe “Easy,” its preparation is very similar to the Vegetarian paella listed above, which is rated “Medium.” You should always read through HelloFresh recipes before you start cooking, and decide for yourself if the recipe is too complicated for you.

8. Persian-Spiced Cauliflower Quinoa Bowl – Low-Sodium & Middle Eastern

Key Features

• 241 mg sodium per serving

• Total Cooking time: 35 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Easy

Middle Eastern food is great, but many Middle Eastern recipes are heavy on the sodium. While olives may be off the menu on a low-sodium diet, this Persian-Spiced Cauliflower Quinoa Bowl will give you a vegetarian flavor extravaganza without a lot of salt.

In this dish, the combination adds fragrant floral notes that heighten the sweetness of the sweet potatoes, while the pepper and paprika add some zing to the mild cauliflower and nutty quinoa. And as an added bonus, many of these spices have anti-inflammatory effects.

The Persian spice blend used in this recipe is called baharat and can be purchased in Middle Eastern stores or online. Baharat combines cumin, coriander, and turmeric with a touch of smoky paprika and black pepper.

9. Pecan-Crusted Trout with Apple-Studded Salad – Best Low-Sodium Gourmet Plus Meal

Key Features

• 350 mg sodium per serving

• Total Cooking time: 35 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Medium

This Pecan-Crusted Trout recipe is a plate of buttery steelhead trout in a crunchy crushed pecan topping, alongside thyme-roasted potato rounds and a salad of mixed greens and apple slices. It’s the kind of meal you might expect at a 4-star restaurant, on your table in 35 minutes.

HelloFresh’s Gourmet Plus line provides you with high-quality ingredients along with clear, detailed instructions that you can follow without a culinary school degree. And all this comes in with only 350 mg of sodium – around 15% of the recommended 2,300 mg daily allowance.

HelloFresh’s Gourmet Plus line costs a bit more (hence the Plus), but it teaches you how to put together fabulous low-sodium meals for special occasions or just for a culinary treat.

10. When Steak Met Potatoes – A Lower-Sodium Steak Splurge

Key Features

• 598 mg sodium per serving

• Total Cooking time: 35 minutes

• Cooking difficulty: Easy

HelloFresh’s When Steak Met Potatoes, its take on steak au poivre, is a bit above the 500 mg/meal sodium ideal. But if you’re going to splurge, why not do it with steak and potatoes?  

Oven-roasted potatoes, pan-cooked sirloin, peppercorn sauce – what more could you ask for? Try kale in sour cream for a delicious superfood side dish!  At 598 mg sodium per serving, this steak recipe is well within the FDA-recommended 2,300 mg per day allowance. 

Dieting isn’t an all-or-nothing affair. If you’re going to go a little bit over your restricted sodium diet limits, When steak met potatoes is a healthy indulgence with only 525 calories.

Quick Summary Table

Bottom Line: Finding the Best HelloFresh Low Sodium Recipes 

HelloFresh's recipes typically have reasonable sodium levels since they expect you to add salt as per your taste preferences. This allows you to enjoy their meals while maintaining a balanced sodium intake. You can also explore their low sodium recipes at home through their online resources.

HelloFresh’s easy-to-follow recipes and wide variety mean it’s easy to find salt-sensible meals you love without getting bored. If you want to learn how to cook healthy and delicious low-sodium meals at home, HelloFresh is a great place to start!

FAQs

Does HelloFresh have a lot of sodium?

A quick search through HelloFresh’s Recipes reveals sodium levels all over the place. Most HelloFresh meals come in between 800 mg and 1,100 mg of sodium, but there are many meals under 750 mg and quite a few with well under 500 mg of sodium.

What is the recommended daily amount of sodium?

While the FDA Dietary Guidelines recommend no more than 2,300 mg of sodium daily, the average American consumes around 3,400 mg in their daily diet. Most dietitians and health professionals define a restricted sodium diet as one with less than 1,500 mg of sodium per day.

The recipes on our list are all suited for a restricted sodium diet, though #10 might be better suited for an occasional splurge.

What are the best meals in HelloFresh?

HelloFresh’s Most Popular tag represents meals that have received the highest ratings from HelloFresh customers. Our #1 entry, Salmon en Papillote with Couscous Pilaf, is on HelloFresh’s Most Popular list, as are several of our other low-sodium entries.