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SPINACH WITH BUTTER BEANS

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Spinach with butter beans

This recipe for spinach and butter beans is seriously good, you guys. Butter beans, lima beans, sieva beans, however you choose to call them, they’re delicious and healthy.

Broadly, the term “butter bean” is used for a large, flat, and white or yellow variation of lima bean.

Along with being a healthy carbohydrate and an excellent source for fiber and protein intake, butter beans are a great source of magnesium, iron and zinc. If you follow a meat-free diet, this makes them excellent alternative to meat. Butter beans are a great source of B vitamins, such as folate, thiamin and riboflavin. B vitamins are required when carbohydrates turn into energy.

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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

 

SPINACH, AVOCADO AND RED BEANS SALAD

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Spinach, Avocado and Red Beans Salad

Check out these pretty colors having a party in my bowl🌻 🙆🏼

We’ve got baby spinach, red beans, avocado, carrots, cherry tomatoes and spring onions topped with seeds, lime juice and balsamic vinegar. It’s a fast, healthy, delicious salad recipe, ready in 10 minutes.

We’ve also got 253 grams of Calcium going on, 17 grams of fiber, 67 mgrams of vitamin C, 6 mgrams of iron, 6 mgrams of vitamin C, and 186 mgrams of Magnesium.

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SPINACH, AVOCADO AND RED BEANS SALAD
 
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Recipe type: Salad
Cuisine: Vegan, Vegetarian
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • ½ ripe avocado, sliced
  • 1 small carrot, grated
  • 100 g/ ½ cup baby spinach
  • 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 100 g/ 1½ cups red beans
  • 1 spring onion, chopped
  • 1 tsp sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp sunflower seeds
  • 1 tsp poppy seeds
  • 1 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • salt
  • pepper
Instructions
  1. Rinse spinach and place in a large bowl.
  2. Cut tomatoes in half, grate carrot, slice avocado, rinse beans, chop spring onion, and add them all on top of spinach.
  3. Top off with seeds, lime juice and balsamic vinegar.
  4. Season with salt and pepper.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 353 Fat: 18 g Carbohydrates: 41 g Sugar: 9 g Sodium: 370 mg Fiber: 17 g Protein: 14 g Cholesterol: 0 g