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Recipes with green vegetables, garden vegetables and mushrooms.

Healthy ideas for juices and smoothies

Juices and vegetable drinks are probably the fastest way to replenish your stamina. They are an ideal complement to any diet. When lunch time is short and energy low, a delicious smoothie will satisfy those hunger pangs, supercharge those energy levels, without risk of putting on weight. The vitamins and nutrients from natural juices get to their target much faster than those of an ordinary meal.

Everyone has a favorite fruit or vegetable drink; here there are some more ideas to add to your repertoire. Quantities estimated for four servings.

Onions

With their sharp pungent flavor that mellows to slight sweetness when cooked, onions are an essential condiment essential in every cuisine.

Olives & olive oil

Olives, with their characteristic, slightly acidic flavor, are used as appetizers, in salads, pasta sauces,  pizzas, in robust meat and chicken dishes, with vegetables such as eggplant, tomatoes. Olive oil is used in cooking, salad  dressings and sauces.

Mushrooms and fungi

Mild, delicate flavor. Used in western and oriental cuisines; many  varieties with different flavors in sauces, stuffing, soups. As a  vegetables they are used in Orient with fish, meat and poultry; also as  a side dish in western cuisines. Dried, they are used as seasoning  rather than vegetable.

Baba ghanoush

Baba ganoush is a traditional dip originating in the eastern Mediterranean that is made from eggplant, olive, garlic and lemon juiceIt is popular in Egypt and the Middle East. Baba ghanoush can appear as an Egyptian appetizer or as part of Lebanese mezze.

Ajo blanco

Ajo blanco comes from Malaga and it is one of the many gazpacho soups found in Spain. If you feel you would like to try preparing it in the traditional way, do everything in the same order, but use mortar and pestle. Put the paste in a big bowl before adding water. This chilled soup is a natural source of E vitamin from the olive oil and almonds.

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