Steamed Vegetables are Healthy, but
But, they are boring!
Many diets will instruct you to steam your vegetables so they retain the most nutrients and that is fine. The problem is, when you serve them it’s necessary to load them up with butter or margarine to make them taste good.
This defeats all the good you have done by steaming them.
Here’s an approach that will give you the nutrients from steaming, but also eliminate the tendency to load them up with fats and oils at the table…
Roasted Carrots
Don’t let the simplicity of this recipe fool you. Carrots and olive oil; that’s it. But something happens when you roast carrots in the oven for a while. They get so sweet, just a little color from roasting.
I always make these whenever I roast chicken or beef. The oven is running anyway. Might as well take full advantage of it.
Green Beans w/Mushrooms and Shallots
Sometimes it’s amazing how three simple ingredients, put together, can become an elegant dish.
Everything is cooked in one pan, but two seperate steps. Very simple and takes only 15 minutes to get it to the table.