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Healthy Dinner Recipe Brown Rice Noodle Salad

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Why is brown rice good for you?

Clean Eating Diet loves brown rice, and heres why: during the production of brown rice, only the hull, the outermost layer of the rice kernel, is removed. Doing so least-damages rices nutritional value, keeping most of its vitamins, phosphorus, manganese, iron and essential fatty acids. (Source: Brown Rice, by WHFoods.com)

Difference Between Brown and White Rice

Raw rice has several layers, each containing its own nutritional value. During production, brown rice is milled by removing only its outermost layer while white rice undergoes more rigorous milling, removing other nutritional layers like bran, germ and aleurone. The aleurone layer, which contains rices essential fats and protects rice from oxidation, is removed to extend shelf life. However, removing the aleurone layer also turns rice into refined starch and takes away nutritional values. Consuming white rice, therefore, isnt ideal for the clean eating diet.

Besides difference in color, brown and white rices main difference is that brown rice is much, much, much cleaner and healthier.

And what is Wakame?

Wakame is a type of edible seaweed used most often in Chinese, Japanese and Korean cooking. It can be made into salads, cooked in soups, and stir fried with other ingredients as main dish. Its chewy texture is comparable to that of squids; and its grassy and salty flavor resembles other sea vegetables.

Wakame has high nutritional value in iodine, iron, magnesium, calcium and vitamins. Its low calorie, low fat, low carb and gluten-free.

And yes, its totally clean!

This Brown Rice and Wakame Noodle (see below) was quite a nice find.

I bought mine from a health food store, but you can also find it online at Brown Rice and Wakame Noodle.

It tastes great when eaten alone, but can also be made into sides, salads or main dish.

Obviously, for todays healthy dinner recipe, I chose to make a salad.

Already fresh-tasting, the brown rice and wakame noodle blended nicely with crunchy cucumber and green onion. With potent garlic and savory Tamari (organic) soy sauce, this salad was a delicious way to eat clean for dinner.

It was also easy to make, requiring, after marinading the cucumber, less than 15 minutes to complete.

I enjoyed this clean eating salad, and hope you do as well.

Healthy Dinner Recipe: Brown Rice Noodle Salad

Ingredients:

- 1 tea spoon of sesame oil

- 1 table spoon of olive oil

- 1 tea spoon of agave

- 1 serving of organic brown rice and wakame noodle, cooked

- 5 cloves of garlic

- 1/8 cup of leeks, chopped

- 1/2 cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced

- 1 tea spoon of Tamari soy sauce

- 1 tea spoon of dark vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)

Directions:

1. Marinade cucumber slices with 1 tea spoon of agave, 1 tea spoon of Tamari soy sauce and 1 tea spoon of vinegar. Marinade for at least 1 hour, but better overnight.

2. Heat wok on high over stove top. Add olive oil.

3. When oil becomes hot, add garlic and leeks. Reduce heat to med-high.

4. Let garlic and leeks cook for about 20-30 seconds. Turn off heat and set aside.

5. In a mixing bowl, add cooked brown rice noodle. Then pour in cooked garlic and leeks, along with a few drizzles of olive oil (that was already in the wok).

6. Add marinaded cucumber slices. Then drizzle sesame oil all over.

7. Mix well and chill in fridge for about 1/2 hour.

8. Enjoy!

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Todays Article Source(s):

Brown Rice | The Worlds Healthiest Foods | WHFoods.com

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The Skinny Taste Cookbook: Light on Calories, Big on Flavor (from here)

By Gina Homolka

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Gina Homolka is America’s most trusted home cook when it comes to easy, flavorful recipes that are miraculously low-calorie and made from all-natural, easy-to-find ingredients. Her blog, Skinnytaste is the number one go-to site for slimmed down recipes that you’d swear are anything but. It only takes one look to see why people go crazy for Gina’s food: cheesy, creamy Fettuccini Alfredo with Chicken and Broccoli with only 420 calories per serving, breakfast dishes like Make-Ahead Western Omelet "Muffins" that truly fill you up until lunchtime, and sweets such as Double Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies that are low in sugar and butter-free but still totally indulgent.

The Skinnytaste Cookbook features 150 amazing recipes: 125 all-new dishes and 25 must-have favorites. As a busy mother of two, Gina started Skinnytaste when she wanted to lose a few pounds herself. She turned to Weight Watchers for help and liked the program but struggled to find enough tempting recipes to help her stay on track. Instead, she started “skinny-fying” her favorite meals so that she could eat happily while losing weight.

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Portobello “Steaks”

These last few warm days with the tease of the toasty summer to come has me itching to get out the grill. And by get out the grill I mean make sweet puppy dog eyes until the fella drags the grill out of the garage and does his manly imperative above the open flame. The grill is his territory and Im happy to let him keep it.

Its been a crazy week and our cooking schedule has been thrown into a tizzy so I settled for the next best thing to the grill on such a tight schedule. We got out the grill pan and tossed some marinated portobellos on it and reveled in the meaty herby smells filling the kitchen. These couldnt be easier and I always do at least a double batch because they taste so good I can guarantee each of us will want to eat more than one. And until the nice weather is here to stay that grill pan is going to be getting a lot of use.

Portobello “Steaks”

2 large portobello mushrooms, stems removed
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup dry red drinking wine
1/4 cup oil
1-1/2 tsp. dried thyme
2 tsp. dried basil
1 tsp. dried parsley
1 tsp. Montreal or Chicago-style steak spice
salt and pepper, to taste

The day or morning before you plan on serving these, mix together all ingredients but the mushrooms in a large glass or ceramic casserole dish with a lid. Lightly score the tops of the mushrooms in a criss-cross pattern. Place the mushrooms top-up on the marinade and swish around so the liquid fills some of the spaces in the underside, then flip over and lay them down with the tops in the marinade. Cover and let marinate until evening, or at least 4 hours, flipping the “steaks” over occasionally.

Preheat a cast-iron frypan or griddle; spray lightly with oil spray. Sear the mushrooms on each side quickly, then pour the marinade over mushrooms and sauté for a few minutes so that the marinade cooks and the steaks absorb the flavors, about 2 minutes on each side. Remove to serving dishes and spoon more marinade over top.

Original recipe from Diet Desserts and Dogs Blog.

Clean Eating Weight Loss Meal Plan 209

Breakfast

Scrambled Eggs with Natural Colby Jack Cheese, Whole Wheat Toast and Apple Slices

Mid Morning Snack

Grape Tomatoes

Lunch

Tuna Melt with Whole Wheat Bread and Mixed Vegetables

Afternoon Snack

Apple Slices

Dinner

Apple and Avocado Salad Over Mixed Greens with Feta Cheese and Organic Poppyseed Dressing

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Clean Eating Recipe Lobster Cucumber Avocado Salad

Ingredients:

2 cups of cooked lobster tail, chopped (we recommend: wild caught Longostino lobster tails)
2 cups of ripe avocado, peeled, de-cored and cubed
1 cup of cucumber, peeled and diced
1/2 table spoon of extra virgin olive oil
2 tea spoons of fresh cilantro leaves
1 table spoon of freshly-squeezed lemon juice
1 dash of sea salt or kosher salt
1 dash of ground black pepper

Instructions:

Add all ingredients above into a mixing bowl.
Toss and mix well.

Enjoy!

Clean Eating Recipe Tomato Cream Sauce

Clean Eating Recipe: Tomato Cream Sauce

Ingredients:

1 cup of grape tomatoes, cut into halves
1 - 2 cloves of garlic, crushed and chopped
1 table spoon of real butter
1 cup of organic heavy cream
1 pinch of sea salt or kosher salt
1 pinch of fresh ground black pepper

Directions:

Heat sauce pan on high over stove top.
Add butter and let it melt.
Add garlic and tomato halves into melted butter, and let cook for one minute.
When tomatoes and garlic turn brown, reduce heat to medium, and let simmer for about 2 – 3 minutes. Stir occasionally.
Slowly stir in heavy cream.
Add a sea salt and pepper.
Let simmer for another 2 minutes while stirring often.
Pour sauce over pasta or cooked meat, like todays baked chicken breast.

Enjoy!

Healthy Dinner Recipe Salmon with Avocado Cucumber Topping

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Clean Eating loves salmon!

Protein is essential in the clean eating diet, but its also hard to find easy-to-do protein meals besides chicken and turkey. Not todays salmon though, which takes less than 30 minutes, and is as delicious as the more common protein choices.

Salmon is one of the healthiest forms of protein.

Because in addition to protein, its rich in omega-3, vitamins, phosphorus, selenium, iodine and potassium, and helps improve cardiovascular health, mood and cognition, joint protection and sight. Eaten with healthy vegetables and organic cheeses, like in todays clean eating recipe, this salmon meal is even healthier.

Plus its tender in texture and full in flavor--a great alternative to chicken and turkey.

I hope you like todays salmon recipe (scroll on down).

Its a fantastic idea for clean eating dinner.

Healthy Dinner Recipe: Salmon with Avocado Cucumber Topping

Ingredients:

- 1 avocado, de-cored, peeled and diced
- 1 cucumber, peeled and cubed
- 1 tea spoon of dill
- 2 table spoons of soft cheese (either organic cream cheese or organic cream cheese)
- 1 table spoon of crumbed feta cheese
- 4 ounce Atlantic salmon
- Sea salt
- Ground black pepper
- 1 tea spoon of lemon juice
- 1 table spoon of extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tea spoons of white wine or mirin
- Olive oil cooking spray

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 F.
2. In a mixing bowl, add salmon.
3. rub sea salt, pepper, olive oil and wine all over salmon on both sides. Mix well.
4. Put salmon on baking sheet and bake for 20 min, or until salmons thoroughly cooked.
5. While salmons cooking, add avocado, cucumber, dill, soft cheese and feta in another mixing bowl. Mix well with spoon.
6. When salmons finished, transfer it to a plate and top with the topping mixture you just made.

Enjoy!

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Healthy Dinner Recipe Shrimp Avocado Quinoa Bowl

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Healthy Dinner Recipe: Shrimp Avocado Quinoa Bowl

Ingredients:

- 1 cup of medium cooked shrimp

- 2 roma tomatoes, diced

- 1 haas avocado, peeled, de-cored and chopped

- 1 cup of steamed Brussels sprouts

- 1/2 cup of organic quinoa

- 1 table spoon of extra virgin olive oil

- Sea salt

- Ground black pepper

- 1 tea spoon of dry thyme

- 1/2 tea spoon of lime juice

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients to a mixing bowl.

2. Mix well with spoon and toss 5 - 6 times.

Enjoy!

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Sushi Bowls

Since Ive had the money to develop a taste for it sushi has been both my comfort food and the meal Im most likely to splurge on for a special occasion. It was definitely the food I was most worried about losing to the French diet, necessitating a pricey sushi binge the day before the diet began. Fortunately weve been making so many meals that have either been so delicious or so odd I havent had much time to lust after sushi. Much.

This next best thing for next time the overwhelming urge for sushi appears and made totally diet friendly by substituting brown rice for the traditional sticky white and using only good low carb fats and veggies Its also good for sushi when youre feeling lazy and cheap because the ingredients are readily available and there is no rolling or Japanese food artistry necessary.

Im not a big fan of the texture of tofu however so we substituted a nice firm tasty tempah for tofu which made preparing this even easier. And the fella dislikes avocado with a passion so he used cucumber on his portion. Overall he just wasnt that into this faux sushi experience, the real thing isnt his favorite but its a sign of his niftyness that he acquiesced to a meal he would never eat on his own just for my love of sushi. It was glorious, I may eat nothing but this when the fella goes out of town in May.

Sushi Bowls

2 cups short-grain brown rice
3 1/2 cups water
2 teaspoons fine grain sea salt
2 (4-inch) square sheets nori seaweed
6 ounces extra-firm tofu

grated zest and juice of one orange
grated zest and juice of 1/2 lemon
2 teaspoons fructose
2 tablespoons shoyu sauce (or soy sauce)
2 tablespoons (brown) rice vinegar

4 green onions, chopped
1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and thinly sliced
3 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted

Rinse and drain the rice two or three times. Combine the rice, water, and salt in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat, cover, and simmer gently until the water is absorbed, about 45 minutes.

Toast the nori in a preheated 300F degree oven or a medium-hot skillet for a few minutes. Crumble or chop coarsely.

Drain the tofu and pat it dry. Cut the block of tofu lengthwise through the middle to make four 1/4-to 1/2-inch thick sheets of tofu. Two at a time, cook in a dry skillet or well-seasoned skillet over medium-high for a few minutes until browned on one side. Flip gently, then continue cooking for another minute or so, until the tofu is firm, golden, and bouncy. Let cool, enough to handle, then cut crosswise into matchsticks. Repeat with the remaining sheets.

To make the dressing, combine the orange juice, lemon juice, and fructose in a small saucepan and bring to a gentle boil. Cook for 1 or 2 minute, the add the shoyu and vinegar. Return to a gentle boil and cook another 1 or 2 minutes, until slightly thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in the zests.

When the rice is done, stir in 1/3 cup of the dressing and add more to taste. Scoop the rice into individual bowls and top with the toasted nori, green onions, tofu, avocado slices, and a sprinkling of sesame seeds.

Original recipe from 101 Cookbooks Blog.

Healthy Dinner Recipe Egg and Cabbage Stir Fry

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Healthy Dinner Recipe: Egg and Cabbage Stir Fry

Ingredients:

- 1/2 head of cabbage, thinly sliced
- 1 cup of green onion, sliced
- 2 eggs, scrambled
- 1/2 table spoon of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 pinch of sea salt
- 1 pinch of white pepper powder
- 1 tea spoon of onion powder
- 1 tea spoon of light Tamari organci soy sauce
- 1 table spoon of water

Directions:

1. Heat wok on high. Add oil.
2. When oil becomes warm, add green onion and let cook for 1/2 minute.
3. Add cabbage and stir for 1/2 minute.
4. Add sea salt, pepper, onion powder and soy sauce, and stir for another 1/2 minute.
5. Reduce heat to medium and add water. Let cook for 5 minutes, or until cabbage slices are soft and chewy. During cooking, stir occasionally (about every 20 seconds).
6. Add eggs and stir for another 1/2 minute.
7. Turn heat up to high, and continue stirring for another 1/2 minute to 1 minute.

Done! Transfer to plate and serve with organic brown rice or quinoa.