A healthy dinner in 20 minutes!

Most people think that you have to spend a lot of time to cook a healthy food. But this is not true. I usually spend 20-30 minutes to cook dinner. Of course, sometimes you have to do some preparations but it is not the reason to eat something unhealthy.

For example, sometimes I boil beet and keep it in a fridge till next day. While the beet is boiling you can do some housework if you want. Also I always have some defrosted ready-to-cook fish in my fridge.

So yesterday I cooked salmon steak. I used multi-cooker and added some olive oil. As for spices, I used some salt, dried mint, a little bit of rosemary and juice of fresh lemon. Because of multi-cooker I cooked it really fast – in 10 minutes. You can also stew the fish in a frying pan with an olive oil and some water for 15 minutes.

I also cooked vegetable salad with lettuce, cherry tomatoes, fresh cucumber and sweet pepper. As for dressing, I used my favorite balsamic vinegar, some olive oil and black pepper. To diversify my meal I grated some beet and added olive oil, balsamic vinegar and some sesame.

Bon appetite! :)

 

Carbohydrate lunch in 20 minutes: pasta with salmon in a coconut milk

Today I have carbohydrate day and I eat cereals, rice noodles, rice and/or buckwheat crisp breads and bananas. But no other fruits, and no fat.

I cooked rice pasta with salmon in a coconut milk for lunch! I stewed the salmon in multi cooker for 10 minutes.  At the same time I put noodles in boiling water. You need only three minutes to cook rice noodle! Then I stewed the noodle with olive oil for couple of minutes and added finely cutted salmon with five spoons of coconut milk. I love coconut milk; it adds a zest to any dish! In Russian supermarkets a bottle of such milk costs 100-120 rubles. That's enough for a week of everyday use.

Today I cooked not just regular rice noodles but with moroheiya added. I've never tried to find it in Russia but I brought it from Vietnam. I was delivered from Thailand by a Californian shipping company. Moroheiya has been grown in Egypt since ancient times. Few people know that it contains vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber more than five times that of other herbs and vegetables. If somebody finds moroheiya noodles in Russia, please leave a comment :)

Anyway instead of moroheiya you can use rice or glass noodles to cook this nutritious and delicious lunch!