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Make it your New Year's resolution to add these healthy foods to your grocery list. Each delivers a host of health benefits-if you prepare them properly! Here's how.
Make it your New Year's resolution to add these healthy foods to your grocery list. Each delivers a host of health benefits-if you prepare them properly! Here's how.
1. Beets

How to eat it: The beet greens are the most nutritious part, so try cooking and serving them like spinach or Swiss chard. For the beet itself boil it unpeeled to retain the nutrients and add it to salad or eat with plain Greek yogurt, dill and scallions, you can also eat beets, raw or cooked, in a salad and tacos.
2. Cabbage

How to eat it: Saute shredded cabbage and onion, then stir in broth and dill to make a soup, or toss shredded red cabbage, carrot, onion in Thai peanut sauce.
3. Carrots

How to eat it: For your body to properly absorb the beta-carotene in the carrots, it need a small about of fat. Try adding a little butter or olive oil to cooked carrots to help your body fully utilize this nutrient. Cooking carrots actually increases their nutritional value because it break down the tough cellular walls that encase the beta-carotene.
4. Okra

How to eat it: Try adding okra to soup or stews because, as it cooks, it fats are released and thicken it. You can also stir-fry sliced baby okra with plum tomato and onion or pack them in a jar of leftover pickle juice and refrigerate for several days.
5. Squash

How to eat it: Bake or steam winter squash instead of boiling to retain vitamin C and other nutrients. Serve with herbs and a drizzle of oil or add to bread, soups and stews.
6. Sweet Potato

How to eat it: The skin has as much fibre as a half a cup of oatmeal for about 100 calories, so don't pell it!! Cook the sweet potato whole whenever possible since most of the nutrients are near the skin. You can also try cutting the sweet potato into thick strips, covering it with some spices and oil and baking or make meal with baked sweet potato topped with spinach ham, and shredded Swiss cheese
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