Masa Soup (Vegetable Lentil & Pea Soup) Recipe
Recipe Ingredients
1 medium onion
3 cloves garlic
1 cup split peas
1/2 cup lentils (any color)
2 1/2 cup edible hibuscus leaves,
1 spinach, kale, collard or
1 mustard
1 greens, etc., cut or torn in
2 inch pieces
1/2 cup zucchini, chopped
1 cup carrots, diced
1/2 cup celery, diced
1/2 cup eggplant, diced (optional)
3 large fresh basil leaves (or 1/2
1 tsp dried)
1 pinch (1/4 teaspoon) thyme
1/2 tsp salt (or 2 tablespoons
1 bragg's liquid amino)
1/2 tsp fresh ground black pepper
1 chili peppers or hot sauce
1 to taste (opt)
Recipe Preparation
This is the good part. Saute onions and garlic in water till starting
to turn yellow, add all other ingredients in a large pot with 2 1/2
cups of water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, simmer an hour (or
until peas are tender) and then puree in a blender. That's it!
Serve as a main meal with whole wheat pita bread. For a variation,
sprinkle fresh ripe diced tomato on top of soup (or this can be
blended in earlier). For those who remember the days when pea soup
used to have h*m or b*c*n in it, soy baco-bits, sprinkled in just
before serving, brings back that aura.
Makes 6 - 12 ounce servings. Each: 259 calories, Fat 0.645 grams (2%
calories from fat), Carbohydrate 47.84 grams, Protein 16.95 grams.
Sodium 219 mg.
Posted by Neal Pinckney to the Fatfree Digest
[Volume 11 Issue 26], Oct. 26, 1994. FATFREE Recipe collections
copyrighted by Michelle Dick 1994. Used with permission. Formatted by
Sue Smith, S.Smith34, [email protected] using MMCONV.
Servings: 6
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* You can create really good smoothies with reduced carbohydrate yogurt. Admittedly, its not technically cooking, but if you must have smoothies you can make them with reduced carbohydrate yogurt and your favorite fruit. Clearly, you will need to make sure you use fruit that is low in carbohydrates and make use of the whole fruit as the fiber is beneficial.
Flavonoid rich foods
(inlcudes onion, spinach, kidney bean & thyme)
The nutrients called 'flavonoids' which exist in these fruits and vegetables are believed to have properties in fighting cancer.
Experts studying the nutritional effects of flavonoids think that they may well also have many other benefits to our wellbeing, amongst them, anti-candida and antitumor properties.
The majority of these are low in calories, so should be included in your weight loss regime.
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