Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts

Thursday, January 5, 2012

A tasty salutary Salad recipe to Help You Lose Weight

As half of your plate should consist of salad and/or vegetables, it helps to have lots of healthy and tasty salad recipes at hand. Bulking up your meals with salad and/or veggies is also a great way to cut down on the calorie and fat. To help you with some tasty and healthy salad ideas, I will share with you one of my favorite recipes.I make this method all the time and every person that I've made it for, has only complimented me on it. Here it is, I positively do hope that you'll love it too:

Balsamic Greek salad

The excellent Greek salad is an all time favorite and one of the salads that I make the most.You can have it as a side dish or as a light lunch or dinner. If you like, you can also add some avocado to growth the good fat contents.

Info:
Serves: 2
Number of fat burning foods: 3 (lettuce, tomatoes and feta cheese)
Calories per serving:130
Fat per serving:6g

Ingredients:
Lettuce, as required
12 baby tomatoes, halved
Half an onion, sliced
6 olives
1/4 cucumber
Half a disc reduced fat feta cheese
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon avocado oil

Instructions:
Toss together all the ingredients and serve.

I positively hope that you enjoyed this salad recipe.If oyu want to lose weight, you should include much more salads in your diet. You can also add some veggies to this salad like peppers, carrots or even broccoli if you like. Please let me know what you notion about this recipe.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

salutary Recipes - A tasty Pasta recipe That Will Boost Your Immune ideas

Love tomatoes and pasta? Did you know they can be combined to boost your immune system? This healthy pasta recipe does just that.

Every day, your immune theory battles the millions of bacteria, microbes, toxins and viruses that try to invade your body. But this complex and highly interactive network of organs and specialized cells can help keep you healthy only if it's healthy itself. So how do you make sure your immune theory stays strong? Along with getting sufficient sleep and exercise, and retention your stress level down, a low-fat, high-fiber, nutrient-rich diet will keep your immune theory in top-notch condition. Study suggests that the following vitamins and minerals, in particular, regulate a wide range of immune theory functions:

  • Vitamin A
  • B-complex vitamins
  • Vitamin C
  • Zinc
  • Selenium
  • Magnesium

While it's a good idea to take a vitamin and mineral supplement to ensure you're getting the nourishment your body needs, you obviously want to get as many immunity-boosting nutrients as you can from the food you eat. The following recipe, rich in the vitamins and minerals listed above, offers a yummy way to keep your immune theory strong:

Mexican Pasta Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 3 green onions, thinly sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 1/2 lb lean ground beef or ground turkey
  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 can (14½ oz) stewed tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 jalapeño pepper, finely chopped
  • 1/3 cup shredded Monterey Jack or cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
  • 8 oz package bow- or corkscrew-shaped whole wheat pasta

Directions

  1. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain well and place in a large bowl.
  2. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add green onions and garlic and cook 30 seconds.
  3. Crumble in ground beef. Sprinkle with chili powder and salt. Cook, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes, or until beef is no longer pink.
  4. Add tomatoes and their juices, and jalapeño. Bring to a boil over high heat. Sell out heat to medium; cover and cook 5 minutes.
  5. Pour sauce over pasta.
  6. Sprinkle with cheese and cilantro. Toss to mix.

 

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