sunnuntai 16. syyskuuta 2012

Top five recipes! You gotta try these!

Simple, nutritious, healthy and delicious!

One of my clients has asked for simple and healthy recipes and I thought I might as well upload them here, so all of you can get some ideas :) These recipes are something that I make every week or every day, and many of them uses same ingredients, but it works for me. When I see recipes I want to try, I always make my own version to make it just the way I like it, and I suggest you do the same. Feel free to use your favorite seeds and nuts, vegetables, greens and sprouts. 

1. Raw mixed salad with red cabbage
Cabbage
Red cabbage
cucumber
cherry tomatoes
carrots
arugula
avocado
hempseed
cilantro
lemon vinegar dressing (recipe in the end of this post)

Everything in this salad is raw. I usually mix the cabbages and carrots, pour the dressing on them and then add everything else.

2. Sauteed eggplant on a spinach bed
1/3 Eggplant
Red bell pepper
spinach
cherry tomatoes
garlic
lemon juice
Pumpkin seeds
turmeric
cayenne pepper
sea salt
paprika
apple cider vinegar
lemon
1 tbsp olive oil

Put olive oil and one chopped glove of garlic on a pan. Add eggplant, a little bit of water and the spices, and sauté the eggplant until its soft. Meanwhile chop all the other veggies and put spinach on a plate. Add sautéed eggplant, all the other veggies and pumpkin seeds on the plate, pour a little apple cider vinegar and lemon on it and ENJOY!

3. Sauteed Kale and Bok choi
bok choi
Kale
tomatoes
cherry tomatoes
carrot
avocado
pine nuts
nutritional yeast
olive oil
garlic
lemon
apple cider vinegar
cayenne pepper

Put olive oil and one chopped glove of garlic on a pan. Add bok choi first and then kale, a little bit of water and the spices, and sauté them for about 2 minutes. Meanwhile chop the veggies. When the greens are sautéed, add them on a plate followed by everything else. Again, you can pour a little apple cider vinegar and lemon on top and VOILA, its done!

4. Collard green wraps with quinoa and portobello mushroom
Collard green leaves
quinoa
1 portobello mushroom
carrots
1 tomato
cucumber
1/2 red bell pepper
hemp seed
nutritional yeast
lemon
olive oil
turmeric
black pepper
sea salt
paprika

Prepare quinoa as told on the side of the package. Meanwhile chop the portobello mushroom and cook it on a pan with some garlic and olive oil until its soft. Chop all the other veggies, and when your mushroom and quinoa is done, mix all the ingredients together, and Add your favorite spices. Take one leaf of collard green, add the topping on it and roll it. It might be a little hard in the beginning, and maybe the roll is not the most beautiful but it tastes amazing! 

5. the simplest cabbage salad
1 (small) Fresh Cabbage 
3 tasp Olive oil
1 tasp sesame oil
sea salt
pepper
fresh lemon juice
1-2 gloves of garlic
sesame seeds
sunflower seeds

Cut the cabbage and put it in a bowl. Mix the oil and the spices in a glass and pour it on the cabbage. You can put a handful of different kinds of seeds and nuts on the top of your salad.

I'm sure you all notices that I'm in love with Hemp seed, lemon, garlic, cayenne pepper, turmeric, avocado, olive oil, vinegar. I'm also a big fan of quinoa and soba noodles (buckwheat noodles), and I promise to post my favorite soba noodle salad soon! I hope you liked the recipes and will try some of them. If you do, I would love to hear any feedback. Also if you make your own version, I would truly appreciate if you share it in the comments section.

*Lemon vinegar dressing: olive oil, apple cider vinegar (or balsamic vinegar), lemon, seasalt, black pepper. Mix all the ingredients and pour it on top of your salad or veggies. Be careful if you don't want it to be too vinegary!

Love, -e-



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