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Eating Healthy Dried Beans
Cooking healthy food can provide you with a healthier, more enjoyable lifestyle. Cooking your own food at home is more economical and gives you the freedom to select good quality ingredients to maintain adequate nutrition and recommended vitamins and minerals.
Dried beans are high in fiber, high in protein and low in fat and calories. Start cooking healthy food today and enjoy making this delicious recipe using dried beans.
Broccoli Bean Bake
1 1/2 cup cooked dried northern beans
6 cups broccoli florets
1 small onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
3 Tablespoons butter or margarine
1 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 cups [8 oz] shredded cheddar cheese
3 Tablespoons dry bread crumbs
Cook dried northern beans according to directions; then drain.
Place broccoli in a saucepan in 1 inch of water. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for 5-8 minutes or until crisp-tender.
In a skillet, saute onion and garlic in 1 Tablespoon butter. Spread in a greased 11 x 7 x 2 baking dish.
Drain broccoli and place over onion mixture.
Top with beans. Sprinkle with oregano, salt, pepper, cheese and bread crumbs.
Melt remaining butter and pour over the top.
Bake uncovered at 375 degrees for 20 minutes or until heated through.
Makes 8 servings
A Great Summer Healthy Food
Organic kidney beans are a great summer healthy food. They can be used in salads using different kinds of beans or just one kind of beans. Kidney beans, pinto beans and red beans can be used interchangeably in casserole and salad recipes.
Try this easy organic kidney bean salad.
Organic Kidney Bean & Egg Salad
1/2 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing
3 tablespoons shredded Cheddar cheese
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
A few drops of Worcestershire sauce
1 cup cooked organic kidney beans
1 small stalk celery, chopped [about 1/4 cup]
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
3 dill or sweet pickles, chopped
1 small onion, finely chopped [about 1/4]
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 hard-cooked eggs, each cut into fourths
1/2 shredded Cheddar cheese
Salad greens
Mix mayonnaise, 3 tablespoons cheese, mustard and Worcestershire sauce.
Cover and refrigerate until chilled.
Mix beans, celery, sliced eggs, pickles, onion, salt and pepper; stir in mayonnaise mixture. Garnish with quartered eggs and 1/2 cup cheese.
Serve on salad greens. Makes 4 servings.
Friendly Flax Seeds
Flax seeds are a healthy food which are packed with fiber and omega-3 essential fatty acids. Flax seeds are helpful in regulating digestion and elimination. They also lower blood cholesterol and boost heart health.
Flax seeds can be ground by using a food processor or coffee grinder.
They make a delicious nutritious addition to apple sauce, hot cereals, yogurt, smoothies and salads.
If your make your own salad dressings and want to cut down the fat content, a spoonful of ground flax seed can help thicken your dressings and also add a flavorful nutty taste.
Lets start eating nutritious flax seeds. They are a very healthy food.
Growing Sprouting Seeds
Sprouting Seeds In Sprouting Jars
Make sure the seeds are sproutable, which means they are not chemically treated. The seeds should be washed thoroughly and then soaked overnight in a sprouting jar with a mesh cover.
The duration of soaking depends on the size of the seed. Small seeds are soaked for 5 hours, medium size for eight hours and beans and grains for 10 to 12 hours.
On the following morning, the seeds should be rinsed and the water drained off. Make sure that not more than one-fourth of the jar is filled with the sprouting seeds. They will expand about eight times their original size.
The seeds should be rinsed and water drained off three times a day until ready to eat. Use 1 tsp. of citric acid to 1 quart of water to rinse the seeds to prevent spoilage.
The seeds will germinate and become sprouts in 2 or 3 days. Be sure that the sprouts do not lie in water. They should be kept well drained. Sprouts are at their optimum and ready to use when tiny leaves appear at the tips.
Their nutritional value is also optimum.
Sprouts should be kept in the refrigerator when they have reached this optimum level and can be kept for several days.
Happy Sprouting!
Healthy Nutritious Sprouting Seeds
Sprouting seeds
grow healthy nutritious food. They are the freshest and most nutritious of all vegetables available. By the process of natural transmutation, sprouted food acquires vastly improved digestibility and nutritional qualities when compared to non-sprouted embryo from which it derives.
Alfalfa is the king of all sprouts. Apart from minerals, alfalfa is also a rich source of vitamins A, B, C, E and K and amino acids. Flaxseed sprouts are an excellent source of nutrition as well as the radish sprouts.
Growing sprouts from sprouting seeds are an inexpensive method of obtaining a concentration of vitamins, minerals and enzymes. They have all the constituent nutrients of fruits and vegetables and are ‘live foods’. Eating sprouts is the safest and best way of getting the advantage of both fruits and vegetables without the contamination and harmful insecticides.