Ramadan series: Yummy Healthy Salad

by Camy

After a whole day of fast, we need a healthy meal that will fill all of our body's needs. Ramadan is as much about purifying our mind and soul than our bodies to me! Anyways, here is a salad I love to make. It's light but also fills you up and is only composed of ingredients that are super good for our bodies and brain! ;D

Ok so here it goes !

Ingredients - and their health benefits!

• Quinoa - Full of protein for the muscles, magnesium to relax your muscles and blood vessels, fiber to ease the elimination, maganese and copper to get rid of dangerous cancer and disease-causing substances.
• Red or black beans - Full of protein and iron (like meat but low in fat and cholesterol-free!) and antioxidant (they have one of the highest antioxidant rating of all foods) to reduce risk of cancer and heart disease
• Corn - Full of fiber and vitamines!
• Tomatoes - Full of anti-oxydant, lycopene to reduce cholesterol and protect the heart, vitamine C to protect you from immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular disease, prenatal health problems, eye disease, and even skin wrinkling, vitamine A to improve vision, vitamine K which is essential in blood clotting and controls bleeding, potassium to maintain nerve health and iron
• Avocado  - Full of fiber, vitamine A, C, E, K, B5 and B6 for your eyes, your imune system, your heart, to prevent inflammations, for blood sugar regulation and to prevent cancer
• Green and/or Yellow and/or Red pepper (I like to put different types to add colours to the salad. In the end I like to put circa 1/4 of a whole peper.) - Full of vitamine A, C and K and antioxydant to prevent cancer and diseases relating to aging, support immune function, reduce inflamations, asthma and arthritis, decrease cholesterol, boost immunity, and reduce the risk of stomach ulcers.
• Garlic (a couple of cloves) - A natural antibiotic
• Onion - For your heart and to fight cancer
• Cilantro (or coriander, however you call it!) - A powerful natural cleansing agent, helps remove heavy metals and other toxic agent from the body, aids stimulate digestion (it also helps relieving stomach gaz... well it helps you stop farting!!)
• Lime or lemon - Full of vitamine C
• Olive oil - Full of anti-inflamatory agents, helps reduce cardio-vascular problems, helps the digestion, supports bone health, improves the cognitive functions, helps prevent cancer.
• Cumin powder - Reduces cholesterol and helps prevent diabet
  
• Salt

 

Step 1:
Put the quinoa to cook: for one cup of quinoa add one and a half cup of water in a pot. Put it to boil, then reduce the flame and let the quinoa cook until there's no water left in the pot. (It takes aproximatively 20 minutes.)


  
Step 2:
While the quinoa is cooking, drain the corn and beans and chop the rest of the veggies and the cilantro. Mix together. Add the cooked quinoa to the salad.

Step 3: The Sauce!
Add the juice of a lime to 4 table spoons of olive oil. Add 2 pinch of salt and a tea spoon of cumin powder. Mix well and add to your salad.

Step 4:
!!!Enjoy!!! :D

Of course you can add things up or remove ingredients you don't like and change the recipe to your liking! :D

Eat with a variety of other fruits and veggies for an even more balanced diet! :)

Tuna pasta salad

By Reem

The steps are illustrated in the pictures. Pretty simple . Enjoy :)  

Ingredients: 

Pasta, half a tin of tuna, 2 egg, olives, quarter of 1 red onion, half a tin of kidney beans, half a green pepper and half a red pepper, sweet corn, mayo ♥, salt, black pepper, olive oil and if u have caeser salad dressing it will be buff.

This is how it's made:

Boil pasta, boil 2 eggs.
Finely chop: onions, red and green peppers.
Get the remaining ingredients ready.
Rub the chopped onions in lots of salt for 20 secs then rinse it with cold water really well. This makes ur mouth stink waaay less.
Now the thing which rocks in this salad:
Fry the peppers in a wee bit of olive oil for 5 mins and then add the kidney beans. Brings out both of their flavours.
Mash the tuna with mayo and black pepper until smooth.
Cut each egg into 16+ pieces.
Add everything together including the remaining of the ingredients.

Enjoy.

:) 

oh oh, I forgot it had mushrooms but not essential