cook and eat hot foods. With a spiralizer, you can make quick and easy meals that are healthy and refreshing.
Tip Four:
Try exotic fruits like dragon fruit, jackfruit, and passion fruit. While you may not find specialty fruit at a typical grocery store, you often can find them at the local international market.
Now to the recipes! Although I enjoy cooking and finding ways to be creative in the kitchen, I believe in quick, easy, and delicious meals.
Healthy summer recipes:
Very Berry Salad
Ingredients
- Fresh strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, champagne grapes, and blueberries
- 2 tablespoons of agave nectar
- ¼ cup of fresh-squeezed orange juice
Directions
- Rinse fruit and place in a nice-sized party bowl.
- Stir agave nectar into orange juice.
- Pour agave and juice mixture over the fruit.
- Chill in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes and serve!
READ: Summer Lights: Low-Fat & Sugar-Free Desserts
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Not Your Ordinary Salad
Ingredients
- 3 chopped Roma tomatoes
- ½ red, green, and yellow bell pepper
- 1 chopped head of romaine lettuce
- ½ cup chopped cilantro
- 2 avocados chopped
- Grated parmesan (optional)
- Dressing: drizzle of ranch or cilantro dressing
Directions
- In a large salad bowl add all the above ingredients and mix well. Enjoy as a side salad or main dish. Can be served alone or with chopped chicken.
Mediterranean Veggie Wrap
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber thinly sliced
- 1 large firm tomato chopped
- Arugula
- 1 red onion chopped
- Cilantro jalapeño hummus
- Pack of pita wraps
Directions
Generously spread hummus on pita wraps. Place cucumber, red onions, and tomatoes evenly over the hummus. Last, add arugula and roll each wrap.
For the rest of this summer, I challenge you to be the balance and bring a healthy dish to your next cookout.
Very Berry Salad and Not Your Ordinary Salad are taken from Heels in the Kitchen: Fashionably Edible cookbook.
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Elissa Mirsky, known to most as Elle, is a published author and former editor-in-chief of Bold Magazine. She believes food shouldn’t be boring and every meal should be fashionably edible. Follow her on Instagram @mylifebeingelle where she is documenting her journey to eat well, live life, and love self.
