Clean Eating with Vegetables: The Cleanest Way to Eat
Clean Eating with vegetables makes up a large part of the HOLISTIC NUTRITION. Vegetables contain important substances, that our good intestinal bacterias need. Ideally the vegetables are from biodynamic cultivation, grown naturally in the sun and on good soil, freshly harvested and fair traded and distributed.
Vegetables are ideal for purifying, detoxifying and losing weight. Veggies are rich in minerals, vitamins and fiber and bioactive substances, which magically stimulate our metabolism. For easy digestibility, the vegetables should be cooked or sautéed in ghee or in good vegetable oil with little rock salt and spices until soft boiled.
Clean Eating with vegetables also includes avoiding nightshades such as tomatoes, spinach, chard and potatoes. They contain solanine, an acid that, according to the holistic teachings of Ayurveda, can irritate the body. Clean Eating also means, not to add anything, which is heavy to digest like cheese.
Clean Eating with VeGetables: Cauliflower rice
Do you want to lose weight or just feel like cleansing and detoxifying? Then clean eating with vegetables is just right for you. It’s best to completely avoid carbohydrates and starches, especially rice, and replace it with cauliflower. Cut it into very small pieces, so that it looks like rice. This decreases the cooking time which preserves vitamins, especially the B-Vitamins. Cook the cauliflower with Ghee, a small amount of rocksalt and water for about 40 minutes. Add some jeera seeds and curcuma to it.
Serve it to currys of your choice or to meat, fish, eggs and vegan products without cereals. This could be millet, quinoa or chickpeas in form of falafel or hummus. Use chutneys and pesto as dips: Best are selfmade dips.
Clean Eating with Vegetables: Spicy edamame
These green beans are well known as a side dish in Asia. If you like to loose weight or cleanse yourself this may be also a very tasty main dish for you. It contains almost no calories but is rich in nutrients and minerals. Edamame are young soybeans which are cooked in their shells. Mostly you get them frozen. Steam or boil a handful of them until the beans inside get soft. Then take a pan and fry.
First add
- 2 tablesspoon of Ghee
- 2-3 cloves of a finely chopped garlic
- a finely chopped piece of ginger (size of a thumbnail)
- 1 teaspoon red chilly powder
- a pinch of salt
- little coconut sugar
heat briefly to create a spice mixture.
Then add the boiled edamame to it and fry them in the masala. Serve them in a bowl and eat them hot.
Clean Eating with Vegetables: Sweet potatoes sticks
If you like to loose weight or cleanse yourself with yummy food fried red potatoe from South America is just right for you. It is very rich in fibers and saturating. Same time it has little calories. It also delays the rise in blood sugar levels. You can boil or fry them. My favorite are spicy sticks like French fries. Wash one big or two small sweet potatoes and chop them into sticks with the peel. Then prepare a spice oil or ghee.
For this take a pan and fry
- 2 tablespoon of ghee or sesame oil
- 2 cloves of a finely chopped garlic
- 1 teaspoon of red chilly powder or two teaspoons of hot curry powder
- a pinch of salt
- little coconut sugar
Add the sticks and fry them in the spice ghee/oil. Serve them in a bowl and eat them hot. You can add any chutney or pesto to it.
Clean Eating with Vegetables: Sour Pickles
In some countries like Turkey or India you will find vegetables, which are pickled in vinegar or other sour food items for preservation. These sour vegetables are also great for digestion. Don’t take too much because of acidity. There are also mild forms available.
Clean Eating with Vegetables: Artichokes
Artichokes are extremely good for the liver. The bitter substances like Cynarin, Flavonoides and Polyphenole are stimulating the production of bile in the liver. This way the liver is cleansed and the digestion is activated. Just cut the stem and boil it with Ghee, salt and water. The tip of the leaf gets very soft. You can eat it with vegan dips like vegan Aioli. You see, Clean Eating with Vegetables are very easy to prepare.
Clean Eating with Beetroot
With Beetroot you can also create fantastic veggie dishes. Simply take pre-cooked beetroot and grate them. Fry mustard seeds in a small pan with sesame oil and add them to the beetroot. Add chopped dates, lots of fresh rocket salad and herbs like Dill or Koriander and pieces of walnuts – if you like. This typical ayurvedic vegetable dish contains lots of iron and is perfect for detox and weight loss. It tastes perfect with hummus, which you mix with a little olive oil and water. If you like, you can also add tahini.
