Healthy And Light Dinner - For a flat tummy

 

Boiled eggs, Stir-fried mushrooms, Steamed veggies, Brown bread slice toasted and lightly buttered and a slice of raw tomatoes

                    Bubbly batter cod fish, steamed broccoli, boiled eggs and steamed carrots

                                                                    Air-fried sardines

Sardine fish pan-fried in sesame oil, steamed veggies, stir-fried mushrooms and steamed garlic cloves

                          

An assortment of vegetables in vibrant colours, stir-fried mushrooms and a couple of fried fish fillets or a boiled egg to go with them, has the culinary potential to be a favourite choice for a complete and healthy dinner.

Rather than boiling veggies, they are steamed here to keep their natural goodness intact.  Also, mushrooms are stir-fried lightly in soy sauce so that they enhance the taste of this platter.

I have introduced garlic into this, because of its invaluable health benefits as a cholesterol buster and a purifier of the whole system of internal organs.

Vegetables suitable for Steaming:

Carrots

Beetroots

Broccoli and Cauliflower

Green Beans

Mushrooms

Garlic cloves

Cabbage

Prepare the veggies

• Cut the vegetables into any shape you prefer
• Do not peel the garlic cloves. Steam them with the husk to retain the goodness of them
• Broccoli, Cauliflower, Green beans, Carrots, Peas, Okra, Cabbage or any other of your favourite vegetable must be cut into bite-size pieces
• Place all the veggies and garlic cloves in the steamer and steam until the veggies are soft and their original colours are intact. This might take about 10mins 
• Heat a wide pan and drop a tiny blob of butter and let it melt
• Toss the veggies in butter, season them with salt and pepper
• Done!

Prepare the mushrooms 

• Slice up the mushrooms into chunks
• Heat up a little bit of olive oil in a wok
• Toss the mushrooms until they are soft
• Sprinkle some soy sauce and stir fry a little more
• The mushrooms are done!

Prepare the fish

Air-fried sardines - drizzled with soy sauce 

1)    You can choose mackerel, sardines or trout fish for this.  All are  healthy, oily fish.

2)    Remove all the small bones except the spinal bone

3)    Heat a pan and add a little bit of sesame oil

4)    Place the fish once the oil is hot

5)    Let one side fries properly before turning.  If you try to turn                 early, the fish can break into several places

6)    Flip over and fry both sides properly

7)    Toss a couple of green chillies

8)    Pour a little soy sauce on top

9)    Fry both sides in quick turns

Done!

Serve:

• Now arrange all veggies, eggs, fish or chicken and mushrooms on a wide plate 
• Serve immediately!