Low carb menu for those who have promised to lose weight in the new year

The new year is a time for promises. And one of the most common is diet. “Next year I’ll start eating well and going to the gym!”, many people say on New Year’s Eve. If you also hope to enter the a healthy lifestyle in 2024, the Cooking Guide helps you with options with few carbohydrates to start the day and the year right!

It’s much easier to start a diet when you have delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes available. After all, no one likes bland food! And yes, healthy food can be much more than that. Therefore, these options with few carbohydrates demonstrate that you can eat well by following a balanced diet.

Let’s select 5 low carb recipes Perfect to include in breakfast. This way, your most important meal of the day is already among your New Year’s resolutions! Check it out below:

In the Zucchini Omelette

Time: 30 minutes

Performance: 2 servings

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons light margarine
• 2 crushed garlic cloves
• 1 chopped courgette
• 1 seedless tomato chopped
• 200g chopped turkey breast
• Salt and chopped green chilli to taste
• 2 beaten eggs
• 3 egg whites, beaten
• Light margarine spread

Sauce

• 1 jar of low-fat natural yogurt (170 g)
• 1/2 cup chopped mint
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• Salt and black pepper to taste

Preparation method:

1. For the sauce, mix the yogurt, mint, olive oil, salt and pepper until smooth and set aside in the refrigerator.
2. Meanwhile, heat a pan with margarine over medium heat and brown the garlic and courgettes for 3 minutes.
3. Add the tomato, turkey breast, salt, green chilies and fry for another 2 minutes
4. Turn off, let cool and place in a bowl
5. Add the eggs, egg whites and mix
6. Heat a medium skillet with margarine over medium heat and fry half the mixture until golden brown on both sides.
7. Then remove and set aside
8. Repeat the operation with the remaining mixture until golden brown on both sides.
9. Transfer to a plate and serve with the sauce, if desired, garnished with mint leaves.

Natural yogurt

Time: 1h (+8h rest)

Performance: 6 servings

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 liter of fresh type A or B milk
• 1 pot of natural yogurt (170 g)

Preparation method:

1. Pour the milk into a milk jug and heat over low heat.
2. Once it boils, turn off the heat and let the milk come to room temperature.
3. Pour into a refractory dish, place in a polystyrene or in a thermal bag and leave to rest for 8 hours or until obtaining a creamy consistency
4. Remove from plate and serve, if desired, accompanied by granola.

Avocado energy cream

Time: 10 minutes

Performance: 6 servings

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• Pulp of 2 ripe avocados
• 1 cup milk (tea)
• 1/2 cup (tea) honey
• 1 lemon juice
• 2 cups of granola
• Honey to taste for seasoning

Preparation method:

1. In a blender, blend all the ingredients except the granola
2. In a bowl, add layers of avocado cream and granola
3. Finish with the granola, then drizzle with honey and serve immediately.

Spinach omelette

Time: 20 minutes

Performance: 2 servings

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 tablespoons chopped onion
• 1 cup chopped spinach
• 2 tablespoons cream cheese
• Salt and black pepper to taste
• 3 eggs

Preparation method:

1. In a pan, over medium heat, melt half the butter and sauté the onion until softened.
2. Add the spinach and sauté for 3 minutes
3. Then add curd, salt, pepper and set aside.
4. In the meantime, beat the eggs with salt and pepper
5. Grease a medium nonstick pan with the remaining butter and place over medium heat.
6. Fry the egg mixture until golden brown on both sides
7. Spread the spinach filling, then fold it in half
8. If desired, serve with cream cheese.

Fruit salad

Time: 10 minutes

Performance: 4 servings

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 liter of water
• 2 bags of strawberry tea
• 2 bags of white tea
• 1 bag of mint tea
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 cup chopped cantaloupe
• 1 cup chopped mango
• 1 cup chopped strawberries (tea)
• 1 cup papaya (pawpaw)
• 12 mint leaves chopped

Preparation method:

1. Put the water in a saucepan and wait for it to boil together with the herbal teas and honey.
2. Once it reaches the boil, lower the heat, remove the sachets and let it boil until reduced, for about 15 minutes.
3. Wait for the syrup to cool
4. Then, in deep plates, place the chopped fruit and the reduced tea
5. Decorate with mint leaves and then serve!

Source: Terra

Ben

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