Healthy meals that help you lose weight

There are many ways to prepare a healthy meal – and then there are the quick recipes for people too busy to cook proper meals for themselves. We usually associate the word “fast food” with unhealthy, greasy and fatty foods that hamper our ability to lose weight, but not any more! Here you will find five quick easy and delicious recipes that can be made quickly and easily. They will give you more energy and help you on your way to a healthier, better looking body.

Hummus

Hummus is an excellent all round food. It can be used as a dip, a spread, as a sauce and a garnish. You could make yourself a quick, healthy meal by cutting a few carrots, some mushrooms, some cherry tomatoes and dipping them in the hummus you have made.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 can of chickpeas
1/4 cup liquid from a can of chickpeas
3-5 tablespoons lemon juice (depending on taste)
1 1/2 tablespoons tahini
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil

Take all the ingredients except for the chickpea liquid, and put it into a blender or food-processor. Once you have combined the ingredients add in the liquid and blend for five minutes on low. Put it into a dish, add olive oil and serve. This hummus is the traditional tahini hummus – which cannot be substituted. However, if you do not appreciate tahini then you may omit it. It can be refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to one month.

Gazpacho

Gazpacho is an easy, quick-to-make cold soup that is rich in vitamins and enzymes. Since there is no cooking involved, all the flavor and goodness that is available in raw vegetables is preserved. You can eat more of this soup than regular soups because there is no oil required
to make it.

 Ingredients:

2 cups tomato juice, preferably freshly juiced 1/2 small cucumber, peeled and chopped 1 tomato, chopped and 1/2 green pepper, chopped.

1 (tsp). Onion
1 (tbsp). Fresh parsley leaves 1 small garlic clove
1 (tbsp). Fresh basil leaves
2 (tsp). Red wine vinegar
1 (tsp). Honey
1 (tbsp). Lime juice
1/2 (tsp). Bragg’s seasoning or sea salt to taste dash of Tabasco sauce (optional)

All you need to do is blend it and presto! You have a lovely cold soup to eat instantly. There are numerous ways to make Gazpacho.  You will have lots of fun in trying different combinations of vegetables to use.

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