This Sweet Potato soup is soooo yummy but not overloaded with calories. It's an ultimate winter food but I like it so much that would definitely eat it all the year round. This specific recipe of soup makes a perfect match for the Orange Wednesday as it contains sweet potatoes, a pumpkin and carrots.
Ingredients:
2 sweet potatoes 2 cups of pumpkin 2 carrots 1 celery root 1 large chopped onion 3 sliced cloves of Garlic Chicken stock Some fresh thyme 1/2 a cup of rose wine. 1/2 a cup of cream (15% fat) 1/2 tsp of nutmeg Salt and pepper to taste 2 tbsp of oil olive
Directions:
Peel the sweet potatoes, the carrots and the pumpkin, and slice into large cubes.
Fry the onion in a pot with some olive oil until it gets yellow.
Add the garlic and the celery root, and keep frying for 1 minute.
Add the carrots, the sweet potatoes and the pumpkin, and keep stirring for 3 minutes.
Add some fresh thyme, the chicken stock and the wine, just enough to cover the vegetables, and bring to a boil.
Low the fire to medium hit, and cook for 40 minutes until the vegetables are soft.
Remove the pot from the fire, fish out the thyme and blend with a hand blender until you get a smooth cream.
Return the pot to the stove, add the cream, the nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste.
Cook for 5 more minutes.
Serve hot and garnish with some fresh thyme, a few drops of olive oil and a splash of pepper and nutmeg.
The Colorful Diet Game continues this week with a Totally Black Menu for Tuesday.
I can hear you thinking: black healthy food? Doesn't it sound weird? Maybe just a little, since we, dieting people, are used to green lettuce, red sweet pepper and orange juice.
In the next posts I'll share with you my recipes for a Black side dish, a Black soup and a Black snack - all easy to cook and healthy, of course.
Top 5 Reasons Why Green Vegetables Are Good For You
Moving on to Green Monday (from the Add Color to Your Diet post), I'd like to talk a little bit about health benefits of green vegetables.
1. Green leafy vegetables provide our body with many essential vitamins and minerals, such as vitamins A, C, and K, folate, iron and calcium.
2. Regularly eating green leafy vegetables reduces the risk of heart diseases.
3. Increased consumption of green vegetables may prevent some kinds of cancer.
4. Spinach, kale, broccoli, and other green leafy vegetables lowers the risk of developing cataracts.
5. Green vegetables are rich in fiber which is really good for health and is especially recommended for weight loss.
You may say: all right but I just don't like the taste...
In my next posts I'll prove that green vegetables can be delicious, you just need to know how to cook them properly so they are yummy and (don't forget!) healthy.
I'm really enjoying this Red Sunday as there are so many tasty recipes with RED ingredients.
I wanted to write about Borscht (Red-Beet or Beet-Root Soup) but then I came across this nice video recipe and decided not to waste your time in reading.
Watch and enjoy!
P.S. If you'd like to make this recipe healthier - just don't add sugar!
P.P.S. If you prepare the same but without any meet, you also get a very tasty and a very dietetic soup ;)
Today I'm continuing the Colorful Diet concept with a great Italian recipe. As we're still at Red Sunday I suggest to prepare a delicious Tomato Pasta for your lunch.
Here's a very successful variation of Tomato Pasta Sauce from cuisine.com.au:
Ingredients:
150ml olive oil
4 onions, finely shredded
2 garlic cloves, finely shredded
1 tbsp sea salt
Freshly ground white pepper
400g tin whole tomatoes
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 bunch basil, leaves picked and roughly chopped
Warm the olive oil in a heavy-based saucepan over medium heat. Add onions, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook for 10 minutes, turn heat to low and continue to cook until very soft, about another 10 minutes. Add tomatoes, sugar and half the basil. Simmer until thickened and tomatoes have cooked out. Stir through remaining basil just before serving.
In order to make this yummy recipe a bit more healthy, use a whole wheat pasta.
The Mediterranean Cuisine is known for its wonderful tasty and healthy food. So there's no reason not to make it part of your Fun and Healthy Diet!
As I promised in one of my previous posts, I'm going to share with you my favourite recipes that will add bright colors to your diet.
Let's start from Sunday, it'll be totally RED DAY which means that in every meal we'll add some Red ingredients.
For your breakfast I suggest to prepare a king of the diet food - Royal Fruit Salad! It's simple, healthy and very tasty.
Fruit Ingredients: strawberries bananas apples honeydew melon kiwi fruit any other fruit you like :)
All fruits should be fresh and sliced. I won't give you exact quantities as I think everyone has his own preferencs. If you're a big fan of strawberries (as I am), don't hesitate to make it the main component of the salad.
The secret of this recipe is in itsdressing.
You'll need for it: juice of 2 limes 3 tablespoons of berry juice 2 teaspoons of chopped mint leaves
Toss together all the fruit ingredients in a large bowl. In a small bowl, combine lime and berry juice, add mint and stir. Cover with this dressing the fruits in a large bowl.
This Royal Fruit Salad can be easily made into filling breakfast by adding some plane nonfat yogurt and granola.
If you're trying to eat healthy and loose some weight, you've probably been thinking that it's limiting, boring, exhausting - you name it. I suggest stop suffering and start to make fun. Let's turn a diet into a game. How?
The idea is to label every day with a color. Let's say Sunday will be a Red Day, Monday will be Green, Tuesday - Orange, etc.
Here are some colorful recipes for every day of a week. And let's enjoy a healthy food!
