Are you still keeping up on your New Year Resolutions? Did you try to change some of your eating habits and incorporate more weight loss recipes into your diet and menu plan?

In order to lose weight, try to speed up your metabolism by adding more fiber rich foods, cleansing spices, cleansing herbs and fat dissolving vegetables, such as onions, green onions, celery, shitake mushrooms, horseradish, turnip, turmeric, etc. in your diet.

Here are two recipes for you to try to keep your New Year Resolution:

Warm Black Bean, Arugula and Goat Cheese Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of cooked black beans (soaked overnight and cooked till tender)
• 2 cups arugula
• 2 carrots, grated
• 1 /2 cup grated goat cheese
• 2 onions, chopped
• 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1/6 tsp cayenne pepper
• 2 tbsp green onions chopped
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 1 tsp horseradish, grated
• Immunity Boosting Spices Mix
• 1 tbsp parsley, chopped, per serving

Directions:

Saute onions and carrots in olive oil for 10 min., add turmeric, cayenne pepper, salt, ghee, stir thoroughly. Mix with arugula, top with grated goat cheese. Garnish with parsley.

Comforting and Healthy Homemade Vegetable Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 onions chopped
• 2 carrots chopped
• 1 turnip cubed
• 1 small potato, chopped
• 1 cup shitake mushrooms soaked
• 1 celery stock chopped
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp ghee
• sour cream
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tbsp dill, minced (per serving)
• Immunity Boosting Spices Mix

Directions:

For vegetable broth: mix ½ onion, a carrot, a celery stack, a potato, a turnip, in 4 cups of water approximately for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, sauté the rest of onions and carrots in olive oil, for 5 minutes, add shitake mushrooms, chopped and cook for 5 more minutes; add ghee and set aside. When vegetable broth is ready, add sautéed vegetables, salt and pepper to taste. Serve with sour cream and chopped dill on top.

Bon Appetit!

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© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Expert

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