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Recipes for a healthier digestion and a happier You...
Cooking at home doesn't have to be such a hassle and a complicated chore! When you prepare food, you will know what kind of ingredients go in it, and you'll have more control over the quality of the meal. Cooking in your kitchen is not only great for saving money for you, but taking a better care of your health, your family's health, and even our planet. The following recipes are a mixed group of dishes that are made by me from quality ingredients that supports a healthier life style. Signing up for my individualized program, you will receive even more recipes that will be not only mouthwatering, and tasty meals, but also encouraging you to create your own dishes.
Unrefined, and organic ingredients are much better for your well-being, but you can use - of course - refined, non-organic, and pasteurized food items, as well. I would like to bring it to your attention that these measurements are more like approximate, and you adjust them to your taste.
Enjoy your meal!
Home-made almond milk
Ingredients: 1 cup of almonds (soaked for 18-24 hours)
4 cups of water
6-7 dates
1 tsp vanilla extract
Blend everything in a high speed blender machine.
Strain almond milk through a cheese cloth.
You can serve with some cinnamon.
It's a good base for shakes, or you can have it with whole grain cereal.
(low carbohydrate and calorie content compared to cow's milk, high in Calcium)
Asparagus-corn salad
Ingredients:
1 cup of frozen corn
2 cups of cooked asparagus, choped
Parmesan cheese, grated
Unrefined salt
Coconut oil
On coconut oil, stir fry asparagus and corn for a minute, add salt.
Serve it warm with grated Parmesan cheese.
(High fiber, some protein, iron, and vitamin A, Folic acid and antioxidants)
Blue mashed potato
Ingredients:
I lb blue potato
Unrefined salt
Cumin
1 Tbs raw butter
1 cup of organic milk
Boil potatoes in skin. Peel using a fork and knife while it's still hot. Mash it in a bowl with added salt, cumin, butter and milk. If you like it creamier, add more milk. Nice side dish. You can serve it with chopped greens.
(high in anti-oxidants, provides some iron, fiber and protein)
Ingredients:
Soba noodles
A handful of enoki mushroom
A bunch of kale leaves
Coconut oil
Unrefined salt
Soy sauce
Half cup grated fresh ginger
1/3 cup of lemon zest
Pumpkin seeds
Cook noodles. Meanwhile, in soy sauce and coconut oil, add grated ginger, lemon zest, cleaned and cut-up enoki mushrooms. On low heat, simmer it for about 6 minutes under lid. Then add chopped kale, and simmer it for 3-4 minutes longer. Add salt to taste. Serve it hot with the soba noodles, and lightly toasted pumpkin seeds. (high protein in mushroom, and some B vitamins, kale is loaded with vitamins and minerals, and antioxidants, pumpkin seeds are high in Calcium, iron, zinc, and other minerals, supply B vitamins)
Soba noodles with kale and enoki mushrooms
Easy vegetable soup
Ingredients:
2-3 carrots
1-2 parsnips
6-8 Brussels sprouts
6-8 portabella mushrooms
pasta of your choice
unrefined salt, cumin, turmeric, white pepper, dried basil, ground nutmeg
coconut oil, a small piece of fresh ginger
1 l vegetable stock
In vegetable stock, start cooking the mushrooms and the sliced up carrots. Add all the herbs and spices, the coconut oil and the small piece of ginger. Depending on the pasta, place the dried pasta/noodles in the soup as well. Stir sometimes. About 10 minutes later, add the chopped Brussels sprouts and parsnip. Cook it till pasta is done, and vegetables are not overcooked yet. Serve hot. (Vitamin A and E, C, potassium, high fiber, B vitamins, protein, folic acid)
Vegetable juice with apple and papaya
Ingredients:
2 carrots,
1 apple
a quarter of a papaya
1 cucumber
a quarter of a jicama root
a bunch of salad greens
a small bok choy
Using a slow speed juicer, make your own home-made juice from these fresh, peeled, preferably organic ingredients! Drink it right away.
(Provides many types of vitamins and minerals, antioxidants as well)
vegetable-rice wrap
Ingredients:
Whole grain flour tortillas (sun-dried tomato tortillas on the photo)
Cooked brown rice
parsley
tomatoes
avocado
raw cheese
unrefined salt to taste
Mix cooked rice with grated raw cheese, chopped parsley, tomatoes, avocado and salt to taste. You can spread a little mustard on the tortillas, if you'd like. Then spread the rice-mix on them, as well, roll them up, and serve it warm or room temperature.
(High in fiber, potassium, vitamin C and E, iron, antioxidants)