Comforting Recipes with Fat Dissolving Vegetables

Are you still keeping your New Year Resolutions? Did you try to change some of your eating habits and incorporate more weight loss recipes into your menu plan?

In order to lose some weight, we need to speed up our metabolism by adding more fiber rich foods, cleansing spices, cleansing herbs and fat dissolving vegetables, such as onions, green onions, celery, shitake mushrooms, horseradish, turnip, turmeric, etc. into our diet.

Here are some recipes for you to try:

*Warm Black Bean, Arugula and Goat Cheese Salad

Ingredients:

1 cup of cooked black beans (soaked overnight and cooked till tender)

2 cups arugula

2 carrots, grated

1 /2 cup grated goat cheese

2 onions, chopped

1/2 tsp turmeric

1/6 tsp cayenne pepper

2 tbsp green onions chopped

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp ghee

1 tsp horseradish, grated

Immunity Boosting Spices Mix

1 tbsp parsley, chopped, per serving

Directions:

Saute onions and carrots in olive oil for 10 min., add turmeric, cayenne pepper, salt, ghee, stir thoroughly. Mix with arugula, top with grated goat cheese. Garnish with parsley.

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*Comforting Vegetable Soup

Ingredients:

2 onions chopped

2 carrots chopped

1 turnip cubed

1 small potato, chopped

1 cup shitake mushrooms soaked

1 celery stock chopped

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp ghee

sour cream

salt and pepper to taste

1 tbsp dill, minced (per serving)

Immunity Boosting Spices Mix

Directions:

For vegetable broth: mix ½ onion, a carrot, a celery stack, a potato, a turnip, in 4 cups of water approximately for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, sauté the rest of onions and carrots in olive oil, for 5 minutes, add shitake mushrooms, chopped and cook for 5 more minutes; add ghee and set aside. When vegetable broth is ready, add sautéed vegetables, salt and pepper to taste. Serve with sour cream and chopped dill on top.

Bon Appetit!

Breathe, smile and be happy

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Expert

NaturalCounselor.com

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