Recipes: December 2013

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A Unique Low-Calorie Recipe For Dieters- The Delicious Vegetable Pea Rolls

Now-a-days, keeping the body in good shape and maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become a trend, as well as a necessity. In order to maintain an optimum body weight, it is very essential to take a good diet that is nutritious and low on calories. Most dieticians and nutritionists, therefore, relentlessly experiment with new, interesting recipes that are not only delicious, but also low on calories. When it comes to having healthy and slimming food, vegetarian dishes are the best choice. This is because the human body has the natural ability to easily digest fruits, vegetables, pulses, cereals, legumes, etc.

Why Should One Take Low-Calorie Foods?

Vegetarian dishes that are low on calories are light and provide our bodies with lot of energy. Also, they help you to shed those annoying extra pounds and maintain a healthy body weight. They use less fat and thus, help to keep the skin glowing. Overall, being on a vegetarian, slimming diet regularly will make you feel good and confident.

Recipe for Delicious Vegetable Pea Rolls

Ingredients:

- Dry Split Peas
- Tomato Sauce - 2 tablespoons
- Chopped Tomato - 1
- Chopped Onion - 1
- Grounded Garlic Clove - 1
- Olive Oil -1
- Chili Sauce - 1 tbsp (according to taste)
- Large Cabbage Leaves - 10
- Water - ½ cup

Method:

1. Take a large cooking vessel and heat olive oil.

2. Add peas, sauce, tomato, onion, garlic, hot sauce to the vessel and steam.

3. Pre-heat the oven to 350o F.

4. Separately steam the cabbage leaves.

5. Once the mixture and cabbage is steamed, take each cabbage leaf and place some of the pea mixture in its center.

6. Roll it up and place each roll, thus prepared, in a baking dish.

7. Bake for not more than 20 minutes.

8. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Best Vegetable Curry Recipe Ever

If you are catering for vegetarians, it can be difficult to know what to make. Grilled vegetables are a great option and a vegetarian would love the juicy, succulent texture and aromatic flavor of grilled fresh vegetables but what about if the weather is not good or you do not have a grill?

The following recipe for vegetable curry is well worth making. It is a one-pot meal and it is incredibly flavorful. You can buy readymade curries but they lack the flavor and freshness you get when making your own.

This recipe is one of the healthiest vegetarian curries you are likely to find. Apart from the vegetables and beans, it contains raisins, spices, broth and garlic, as well as a little oil. The flavor comes from the vegetables themselves and also from the spices. Yogurt is nice to serve alongside this curry, rather than cream which is more fattening. You can alter the spices if you prefer it stronger or milder.

Using Grilled Vegetables in This Recipe

If you had your heart set on a grilled vegetables recipe but you also fancy making this curry, what about grilling some of the veggies before you make it? You can grill the carrots, potato, garlic, cauliflower, onions, bell pepper, zucchini, and eggplant in large pieces, to give them a smoky flavor, and then chop them before adding them to the curry. This would make the recipe even more flavorful and unusual.

The following recipe serves eight people and the potato adds starch, which means that you do not have to serve this with rice or bread unless you want to.

What you will need:

2 tablespoons curry powder
2 sliced carrots
16 oz can navy beans, drained and rinsed
1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
2 cups diced potato
3/4 cup vegetable broth
2 minced cloves garlic
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups cauliflower florets
2 cups chopped onions
1 peeled, cubed eggplant
1 sliced green bell pepper
1 teaspoon cumin
8 tablespoons plain yogurt
1/4 cup raisins
2 cups peeled, chopped tomatoes with their liquid
2 sliced zucchini

How to make it:

Put the eggplant in a colander and sprinkle the salt over it. Leave it for half an hour. Heat a tablespoon of the oil in a skillet, then saute the eggplant for five minutes, stirring it often. Transfer the eggplant to a dish.

Heat the rest of the oil in the skillet and add the garlic, pepper, cumin, and curry powder. Stir in the broth and cook the mixture for a couple of minutes. Add the potatoes, carrots, onions, cauliflower, and bell pepper and cover the pot.

Simmer the mixture for six minutes. Put the eggplant back in the pan and add the tomatoes, zucchini, beans and raisins. Cover the pot and simmer for ten minutes. Serve the curry with yogurt.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Points to Consider When Becoming a Vegetarian

Going Vegetarian

Parents often recoil in horror when their teen announces that they "want to be a veggie". However, if done correctly it can be a healthy life choice. Careful planning must be carried out to ensure that your offspring is getting the necessary nutrients to support their growing body.

It's not a free license to survive on chips and chocolate!

So out go the burgers and chicken along with a variety of sweets! They hadn't accounted for that - many sweets especially the soft variety contain gelatin so are now a no-no.

Suggested foods for a healthy vegetarian diet:

Meat is one of the most common sources of protein and as a vegetarian that option is not available. So, the question is how do we fill that gap?

Beans, nuts, lentils and other pulses along with eggs, soya, textured vegetable protein and Quorn are all excellent sources of protein.

Combine these foods with foods rich in carbohydrates, fibre and iron to ensure that a healthy and balanced diet is maintained. This means eating a variety of fruit and vegetable - broccoli and spinach are particularly nutritious. Wholegrain breads, bananas and wholemeal pasta provide slow release carbohydrates that will provide a release of energy that lasts all day.

Be creative - being a vegetarian doesn't mean that food has to be boring. You will find a huge selection of recipes on the internet and in book shops. If there is an ingredient in the recipe that you don't like or are allergic to then substitute it with something else. Mix it up and make it your dish.

Before long you'll soon be an expert at rustling up quick, delicious and nutritious vegetarian meals and may even decide to become a vegetarian yourself.

When asked the reasons for wanting to be a vegetarian, a huge 49% stated that it was because of animal cruelty. They felt compassion towards animals suffering unnecessarily to supplement our diet.

Going vegetarian is also a great excuse to leap into the land of kitchen gardening. It's simple to set up some pots on your windowsill and grow a variety of lettuces, herbs and tomatoes that will provide a constant supply of fresh veggies and save a stack of cash. There are many starter kits on the market and if you enjoy it you might become so hooked that before you know it, you have turned your garden into a full blown allotment!

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Technology Is Making Vegetarianism Easier

When I first went vegetarian in my suburban town, I had to spend hours at the supermarket reading all those labels and trying to make sense of the ingredients. Of course, this was the era before Smartphones. Now, there exists an app for just about everything - including helping vegetarians do their grocery shopping.

Apps for Veg Shopping

I recently came across an article about free vegetarian apps for your iPhone. Since I don't have an iPhone (being glued to my laptop is even digitization for me, thank you!), the existence of these vegetarian apps came as a shock to me. Most of the apps listed in the article were purely for recipes. However, there are some cool ones which can make vegetarian shopping much easier. I did a bit of searching and here are the best ones:

Veg Scan app: This is by far the coolest vegetarian app. You just hold your phone up to the ingredients and it will scan them, letting you know if the product is vegetarian or vegan.

Vegan Yum Yum app: Has an ingredients checklist, but no product checklist

Whole Foods Market Recipes app: You can use the app to find vegetarian or vegan products in the Whole Foods store

Animal Free app: Gives you a searchable list of ingredients and their origins

Cruelty Free app: This vegetarian app isn't for food, but rather lets you know whether cosmetics, cleaning products, and personal care items are cruelty free.

VeganXPress app: This app lets you know what is vegan and vegetarian at popular fast food chains and restaurants (costs $1.99)

As much as I don't like how technology-dependent we've become, it seems like these apps can really help people go vegetarian. Now, people won't have to spend hours in the supermarket reading labels just to see if a product contains gelatin or an animal-sourced dye. However, I do worry that this may take away one of the benefits of vegetarianism: product awareness.

Because vegetarians have to constantly read the ingredients in manufactured foods before eating them, they tend to be more aware about how unhealthy processed foods are. This causes them to choose healthier foods which are minimally processed and have fewer additives. So, hopefully vegetarians won't get too dependent on their apps and will still take the time to read ingredients on what they eat -- even if the app says it is okay!