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SPINACH PASTA WITH SUN-DRIED TOMATOES AND WALNUTS

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Spinach Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Walnuts

Hey guys, so here’s a fast, easy, super delicious pasta recipe 🙆🏼.

What you’ll be getting from this recipe:

• ah-mazing flavors

• 93 mg of vitamin C

• 478 mg of Calcium

• 17 g of Iron

• 29237 IU of vitamin A

• 43 g of Protein

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SPINACH PASTA WITH SUN-DRIED TOMATOES AND WALNUTS
 
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Recipe type: Pasta, Fast, Easy
Cuisine: Vegetarian, Vegan
Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 200 g whole wheat pasta (uncooked)
  • 300 g fresh baby spinach
  • 5-6 sun-dried tomatoes, cut in smaller bits
  • 100 ml cooking cream or vegan cooking cream
  • 30 g walnuts, chopped and toasted
  • 2 garlic cloves, pressed
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. Cook pasta following directions on package.
  2. Toast walnuts on a dry pan for 3-5 minutes, tossing. Set aside.
  3. Add olive oil to pan and cook pressed garlic for 1 minute on low-medium heat, stirring.
  4. Add spinach and cook for another minute.
  5. Add sun-dried tomatoes and cooking cream and cook for 3-5 minutes on low-medium heat, stirring, until the cream is bubbly.
  6. Add pasta to spinach sauce and mix.
  7. Add toasted walnuts.
  8. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 580 Fat: 24 g Carbohydrates: 73 g Fiber: 6 g Protein: 28 g Cholesterol: 43 g

 

AUBERGINE AND SULTANAS PASTA SALAD

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Meet this flavorful, healthy, delicious recipe, ready in 20 minutes! Come on guys, can it get any better?

Makes a perfect main, but works great a side too. Not only you get a satisfying and packed with flavor dish, but you also get 11 grams of fiber, 10.5 grams of protein, 1758 IU of vitamin A, 67 mg of vitamin C, 60 mg of Calcium, and 216 mg of magnesium, per portion. Not bad at all for a 20 minute meal. You’ll be dealing with some whole wheat pasta, preferably small sized, some tasty, slightly cooked veggies, and a few condiments. One pan and no fuss at all. âś…

It’s a perfect recipe if you want something substantial, yet easy and fast to prepare. 💯 Full recipe and  nutritional info ⤵️

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Aubergine and Sultanas Pasta Salad
 
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Meet this flavorful, healthy, delicious recipe, ready in 20 minutes!
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Recipe type: Salad, Main
Serves: 3
Ingredients
  • 1 small aubergine, diced
  • 150 gr/ 1 ½ cups whole wheat small shaped pasta, such as pipe rigate, elbow or rotelle
  • 1 medium red onion, sliced
  • 70 g/ ½ cup sultanas
  • 3 sweet kapia peppers, or other similar such as bell pepper or piquillo, aprox 200 g/ 1 ÂĽ cups, sliced
  • ½ handful fresh parsley, or more if preferred
  • ½ tsp dried chili flakes
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. Cook pasta following directions on package.
  2. Slice red onion and peppers. Dice aubergine.
  3. Place pan on medium heat fire, add 1 tbsp of olive oil and wait a few seconds before adding the red onion and the peppers. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season with salt and pepper and move to bowl.
  4. In the same pan, add 1 tbsp olive oil and aubergine. Cook for 2 minutes and add garlic and sultanas. Cook for another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, and season with dried chili flakes, salt and pepper.
  5. In a bowl, mix pasta, red onion, peppers, aubergine, sultanas, and add fresh parsley to taste.
  6. Serve or refrigerate.
  7. Optionally, serve with fresh red or spring onion, finely chopped and sprinkled.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 393 Fat: 10 g Saturated fat: 1.5 g Unsaturated fat: 8.3 g Carbohydrates: 72 g Sodium: 12.8 g Fiber: 11 g Protein: 10.5 g Cholesterol: 0 mg

 

 

VEGGIE RICE SALAD

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Veggie Rice Salad with Beans, Corn, and Cherry Tomatoes

Look at all these pretty colooorsss. I mean, cooome ooon.

So you’ll be getting here:

• An amazingly delicious, fast and easy salad recipe

• Tons of flavors

• Great nutrients

• 19 g Fiber

• 21 g Protein

• 118 mg vitamin C

• 122 mg Calcium

• 4697 IU vitamin A

• 206 mg Magnesium

• 3,4 mg Zinc

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VEGGIE RICE SALAD
 
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Recipe type: Salad, Easy
Cuisine: Light, Vegan, Vegetarian
Ingredients
  • 80 gr cooked brown rice
  • 100 gr red beans or other kinds of beans (kidney beans, roman beans, white beans)
  • 50 gr sweet corn
  • 5 cherry tomatoes, halved (or 1 medium/big tomato)
  • ½ bell pepper
  • 100 gr baby spinach
  • 1 spring onion
  • ½ tsp black cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp pumpkin seeds
  • 2 tbsp radish sprouts
  • 2 tbsp fresh parsley, optionally
  • lemon juice, to taste, optionally
  • salt
  • pepper
Instructions
  1. Cook brown rice following directions on package.
  2. Mix brown rice with radish sprouts, baby spinach, beans, sweet corn, peppers, tomatoes, spring onion, black cumin seeds, pumpkin seeds, and parsley.
  3. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Optionally, add soy sauce, hoisin sauce, or BBQ sauce to taste.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 415 Fat: 5 g Saturated fat: 0.5 g Unsaturated fat: 4.5 g Carbohydrates: 77 g Sodium: 150 mg Fiber: 19 g Protein: 21 g Cholesterol: 0 g

 

SWEET POTATO SALAD

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Baked Sweet Potato Salad

Heeyya! So we have this deliciousness happening here.

It’s a salad. With baked sweet potatoes. And spinach. It’s everything.

What you’ll be getting from it:

• Great flavors

• Healthy & satisfying dish

• 268 mg vitamin C

• 310 mg Calcium

• 8.5 mg Iron

• 7.5 mg vitamin E

• 215 mg Magnesium

• 49520 IU vitamin A

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SWEET POTATO SALAD
 
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Recipe type: Salad, Light
Cuisine: Vegetarian, Vegan
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 150 g sweet potato, baked
  • 150 g baby spinach, rinsed
  • 100 g peppers (bell pepper, kapia)
  • 100 g broccoli, steamed
  • 1 tbsp red onion, chopped
  • 1 tsp black cumin seeds
  • 1-2 tsp sesame seeds
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • ½ peperoncino flakes, optional
  • Sriracha, optional
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven at 350 degrees F/ 180 degreen C.
  2. Cut sweet potato into dice sized cubes. In a bowl, mix sweet potatoes with olive oil, peperoncino flakes, and season with salt and pepper.
  3. Bake for 10-15 minutes, toss, and bake for another 10-15 minutes, or until golden.
  4. Steam broccoli and set aside.
  5. Toast sesame seeds on dry pan for 2 minutes.
  6. Cut peppers and onion.
  7. Mix baby spinach, peppers, broccoli, sweet potatoes, red onion, black cumin seeds, sesame seeds. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve with Sriracha or preferred dressing.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 398 Fat: 27 g Carbohydrates: 54 g Sugar: 23 g Sodium: 562 mg Fiber: 15 g Protein: 12 g Cholesterol: 0 mg

MUSHROOM BRUSCHETTA

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Mushroom Bruschetta

Sooo these bruchettas are totally delicious!

They’re cooked in hoisin sauce and lime juice so the flavors are ah-mazing.🙆

What you’ll be getting here is:

• A fast, fast, fast but satisfying snack, appetizer, breakfast, or whatever you want it to be

• Delicious flavors

• 15 grams of Protein

• 83 mg Calcium

• 8 grams of Fiber

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MUSHROOM BRUSCHETTA
 
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Recipe type: Appetizer, Snack, Breakfast
Cuisine: Vegetarian, Vegan
Serves: 3 slices
Ingredients
  • 150 gr mushrooms (button, oyster), sliced
  • 1 tbsp hoisin sauce
  • 2-3 tbsp lime juice
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 tsp olive oil
  • ⅔ slices of preferred bread, toasted
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Optionally, 3-4 cherry tomatoes and fresh parsley, cilantro or spring onion.
Instructions
  1. Heat up a non-stick pan on medium heat.
  2. Slice mushrooms and add them to the pan. Cook for 2 minutes on medium heat and add hoisin sauce and lime juice. Cook for another 2-3 minutes, or until the sauce has reduced.
  3. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Add olive oil to grill and grill bread slices for 1-2 minutes on each side, or until golden.
  5. Cut the clove of garlic length wise and stick a fork into half of the clove, leaving the cut side open, then rub the garlic on the bread on 1 side.
  6. Add mushrooms on top of each slice and serve.
  7. Optionally, you can add sliced cherry tomatoes on bruschetta, fresh parsley or cilantro.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 243 Fat: 7 g Carbohydrates: 43 g Sodium: 515 mg Fiber: 8 g Protein: 15 g Cholesterol: 0.5 g

 

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