For those of you who haven’t had time to cook, maybe this is the right time for you to deepen your cooking skills. Yes, as long as the implementation of Lockdown and Corona makes us afraid to go out, cooking is the best choice. If you are looking for healthy food recipes creations, let’s watch this article to the end.
Healthy Food Recipes
Many people think that making healthy food is difficult, even though you can create it using simple ingredients in the kitchen. Don’t believe it, try some of the following healthy food recipes:
1. Simple fruit salad
The ingredients you will need to make a fruit salad are:
- 1 dragon fruit
- 1 apple
- 1 pear
- 1 orange
- 5 grapes
- nata de coco to taste
- 6 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons of yogurt
- 2 sachets of sweetened condensed milk
How to make:
First, clean all the fruit first. Then peel all the fruit skin, then cut into small pieces and set aside. Prepare a bowl, make a salad dressing by mixing mayonnaise, yogurt, and sweetened condensed milk. Stir in the whisk. If you feel less sweet, you can add sweetened condensed milk to your taste.
Next, prepare a serving bowl, fill it with nata de coco which has been separated with water. Add the fruit pieces. Pour the salad dressing over it, add grated cheddar cheese to taste. A simple fruit salad is ready to be enjoyed.
2. Chicken soup
Chicken soup is the best food choice during cold weather like the rainy season like now. How to make it is not difficult. To make chicken soup, prepare the following ingredients:
- 400 grams of chicken, wash
- 3 spring onions
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 potatoes
- 8 green beans
- 2 carrots
- 3 cabbage leaves
- 3 celery stalks
- 2 cm ginger crushed
After all the ingredients are ready, let’s start cooking,
The first step, wash all ingredients first. Cut according to taste. Prepare a pot, heat the water until it boils. Add chicken and boil for three minutes. Once cooked, remove the chicken and discard the water, then set aside.
Bring the water to a boil. Add the chicken and boil it until it boils. Next, add two leeks, two celery sticks, and 2 cm ginger.
Saute all ground spices with a little oil. Once cooked, put it in the chicken stew. In succession, add the potatoes, green beans, carrots, then boil until cooked. Add pepper powder, salt, flavorings. While stirring, taste correction. Then add the tomato slices, the cabbage slices. Once cooked, remove and serve.
3. Vegetable dumplings
The next healthy food recipe is vegetable dumplings. Who doesn’t like this one food, soft texture and warms the stomach. You can make it yourself at home. Make sure you have the following ingredients for making vegetable dumplings.
- 18 pieces of the dumpling skin
- 50 grams of shrimp, finely chopped
- 1 spring onion, finely sliced
- 2 pieces of garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoon flavoring
- 150 grams of skinless chicken fillet, finely ground
- 1 egg
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 50 grams of sago flour
- 1/4 ground white pepper
- 1 egg white for adhesive
Do not forget to also prepare the ingredients for the dumpling sauce, the ingredients include:
- 1.5 liters of water
- 2 celery stalks, sliced
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 cloves of garlic, puree
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2.5 tablespoons of flavoring
- 4 pieces of green mustard, cut into pieces
- 4 shallots, puree
- 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
After all the ingredients are ready, it’s time to be creative in making healthy recipes for vegetable dumplings.
Prepare a container, mix all the ingredients for the dumplings into a dough, except for the dumpling skin and egg white. Then take a piece of the dumpling skin. Place 1 tablespoon of dough in the center. Brush the egg white adhesive around the dumpling skin, fold it into a triangle shape, joining the ends together. Repeat until all the batter is used.
Prepare a pot, boil the water until it boils. Add the dumplings and boil them until they are cooked and float. Once cooked, remove and drain.
Make dumpling sauce by boiling water. Add flavoring and sugar. Stir until well blended. In another skillet, saute the shallots and garlic until fragrant, then add the stir fry to the stew. Stir until blended.
Add the green mustard and celery leaves to the sauce. Stir well. Cook for a few seconds until the mustard greens look soft. Then lift it. Arrange the dumplings in a serving bowl, then pour the sauce over them. Vegetable dumplings are ready to be served.
4. Vegetable omelet
Does your child find it very difficult to eat vegetables? If so, vegetable omelet could be the right choice. How to make it is also quite easy and doesn’t take a long time.
Ingredients for making a vegetable omelet:
- 3 chicken eggs
- 1 carrot, chopped
- cabbage or cabbage, sliced into small pieces
- green onion, sliced
- broccoli, cut into small pieces
- 3 crushed garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
- 2 teaspoons of powdered broth
After all the ingredients are ready, hurry up to cook.
Prepare a skillet, pour a little oil. Saute the crushed garlic until fragrant. Stir in cabbage or cabbage, spring onions, and broccoli. Add salt, pepper powder, and broth powder. Saute until the vegetables are slightly wilted. Remove the sauteed vegetables. Put it in a bowl. Crack three eggs. Beat well.
Heat a frying pan with a little oil, cook the omelet over low heat and cover. Check occasionally, if the top of the omelet has hardened, turn the omelet over with a spatula. Once cooked, remove and place on a serving plate.
5. Corn soup
Corn soup can be healthy food that you enjoy in the afternoon.
Prepare the following ingredients if you are interested in trying this one recipe:
- 1 sweet corn, shelled
- 500 ml of water
- 1 egg, beat off
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch, dissolved in two tablespoons of water
- 2 chopped garlic cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of powdered chicken stock
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- Oil for sauteing
Let’s continue with how to create
Prepare a frying pan, heat the oil. Saute garlic until fragrant.
Add the sweetcorn and saute briefly. Add water and wait for it to boil. Enter the salt, broth, sugar and pepper. Cook until the corn is cooked.
Add the beaten egg a little at a time while continuing to stir until it forms egg fibers. Taste correction. Gradually add the cornstarch until it runs out and the soup thickens slightly. Remove and serve.
If it feels less thickened, add the cornstarch solution to taste. For additional ingredients, you can add carrots, broccoli, or chicken.
That’s a healthy food recipes that you can try to create at home. You can also replace your table salt with sea salt from Nicole’s Natural to make the food taste tastier and healthier.