Healthy Diet Recipes - How To Prepare Pasta with Prawns Lime and Lemon

Healthy food recipes - Going into the kitchen with the mind set to lose weight is one of the best step anyone that wants to lose weight and cutting of those junk foods that have put you in the current situation you find yourself now. Going into the kitchen will help you choose the right foods, ingredients and quantity your body needs to help you stay healthy.

When you prepare your food, you know the content and understand that there are know salts, sugars, artificial colors, preservatives and fat. To have a great taste you can add lemon juice and herbs to most foods so you won’t need any salt for taste. Everything will be in moderation.

It’s great to eat more throughout the day than eating a huge amount of food all at once, so it’s better to prepare small portion of food.

Below are some healthy food recipe you can prepare in your kitchen and it fast and easy to get them ready.

Pasta with Prawns, lime and lemon:

Ingredient:

500g large prawns (peeled)

Black pepper to taste

1 tablespoon of Olive oil

500g pasta (chilli pasta will do)

Oil for frying

250g broccoli cut into florets

Juice of 1 lemon and 1 lime

50g basil leaves

4 heads pak choi

1 teaspoon of ground coriander

Preparation:

Add the olive oil to the prawns, pepper and coriander.

Boil a large pan of salted water and add the pasta and cook till dente

Heat the prawns in a hot frying pan with a little oil for 1 minute on both sides

Then toss them into the pasta and add the broccoli, pak choi and basil.

Pour the lemon and lime juice and serve.

This will take fifteen minutes to prepare and will serve four people with above quantity. So here you have learned how to prepare a healthy food so you don’t have to take those junk fast foods that are not healthy to your body.

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Green Bok Choy - How To Prepare Green Bok Choy

One of the best ways to stay and live healthy is preparing your meals from home. Research carried out by experts showed that foods prepared at home are more rich and healthy compared to fast foods due to the excess seasoning and other factors. Having said that, most food outlets still have great and rich meals in their list of foods. In this article, we will learn how to prepare Green Bok Choy juice.

Green bok choy juice is a juice with the color green from bok choy which is a vegetable in Chinese cuisines mostly used as stuffing in spring rolls.

While most people loves it is because it does not taste bitter and it's kind of tasteless and the the interesting part is that you flavor the juice to suit your taste.

Bok choy is gradually gaining popularity in the Europe's culinary world and most especially in England because of the amount of Chinese citizens there since it was originated from China.

Most people like the Chinese cabbage because of its fresh leaves and crunchy stems. You can detect when a bok choy is not fresh by the dead leaves and watery stems. The best way to keep it fresh and dry condition is to refrigerate it and its best if you want to keep it for a long time, you don't wash it but if you still want to wash and keep it in the refrigerator then wrap it with paper to absorb all the water.

Why Bok Choy is Healthy for the Body?

It's rich with Vitamin C, beta-carotene, folic acid (vitamin B9)and calcium. It is also rich in vitamin B2, B6, magnesium and iron. Lets see the benefits of having the above elements in our body.

Folic acid - They are healthy for pregnant women, the acid also helps prevent obesity and diabetes type 2.

Beta-carotene - Helps reduce the risk of getting some type of cancer like cataract.

Taking a cup of bok choy will provide up to 15% of the daily recommended calcium the body needs.

Like every other vegetables, bok choy is great source of fiber.

Now that we know what is bok choy, lets see how to prepare a green bok choy so that we can get all the great elements this vegetable provide for the body.

Ingredients:

1. 150 gram of pear

2. 70 grams of bok choy (Chinese cabbage)

3. 1 250 ml of ready to drink soursop juice

Preparation:

1. Wash the vegetable and the pear with warm water, then cut off the bottom part of the stem then peel the pear and cut them into pieces.

2. Cut bok choy into pieces and add all the ingredients into a blender and blend it very well till smooth.

3. Pour the juice content into a glass and refrigerate it for sometime if you want it cold.

Nutrition facts per serving:

- Carbohydrate: 21 gram

- Fiber: 3 gram

- Energy: 88 calories

- Fat: 0 gram

- Protein: 1 gram

- Vitamin C: 20 mg

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