Just Before Halloween, Great Healthy Pumpkin Stews: 1 - With Chicken, 2 - Vegetarian

Pumpkin Chicken Stew

The Ingredients:

Vegetarian Dishes

2 chopped onions
2 tablespoons of olive oil
2 cups of water
4 potatoes cut into halves
2.2 pounds (1 kilo) of peeled diced pumpkin
1 tablespoon of sweet paprika
2 tablespoons of tomato paste
3-4 pieces of chicken (for those in diet you can remove the skin)
1 teaspoon of salt

Preparation:

Saute the onions in olive oil until they turn golden. Add the paprika and tomato paste with a quarter of a cup of water. Add the pumpkin and potato, stir and cook for a quarter of an hour. Add the chicken and bring to a boil. Season with a little salt and lower the temperature of the stove. Cook for 1 hour.

Pumpkin Stew - Vegetarian

The ingredients:

2 chopped onions
2 tablespoons of olive oil
Half a cup of water
4 potatoes cut into halves
2.2 pounds (1 kilo) of peeled diced pumpkin
1 tablespoon of sweet paprika
1 tablespoons of tomato paste
1 cup of chickpeas (It is possible to use dry chickpeas and soak them in water for the night. Then cook them until they soften. It is otherwise possible to use an assortment of frozen chickpeas).
1 teaspoon of salt

Preparation:

Saute the onions in olive oil until they turn golden. Add the paprika and tomato paste with a half of a cup of water. Add the pumpkin and potato, stir and cook for a quarter of an hour. Add the chickpeas and bring to a boil. Season with a little salt and lower the temperature of the stove. Cook for 40-60 minutes, until the pumpkin softens. It is recommended to serve these dishes with whole rice. Prepare for a happy gathering and a healthy and delicious meal.

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Just Before Halloween, Great Healthy Pumpkin Stews: 1 - With Chicken, 2 - Vegetarian

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Considering Vegetarian Dieting? - Five Things To Know Before You Dish Out The Green

Vegetarian Dieting is often shrouded in confusion and misconceptions. In this article I will address five things you must know before you go Green.

1.Being on a vegetarian diet automatically guarantees you will be healthy and be at a healthy weight.

Vegetarian Dishes

This is not really the case. While it's true that obesity is lower among vegetarians there is more to look out for in this matter. Vegetarians like everyone else in our fast pace world crave convenience and that goes for their food dishes too. The problem here is that many so called convenience vegetarian dishes are often times higher in calories and fat than even traditional meat dishes. Vegetarian fast foods are just as unhealthy as traditional fast foods. Be careful and read these labels as you would any other.

2. It's too complicated to prepare Vegetarian meals.

This is so far from the truth. Remember if you are willing to read labels you will find healthy convenience vegetarian entrees just waiting for you. Also keep in mind that nothing prevents you from using canned vegetables store bought fruits in your vegetarian meal plans. There are so many delicious vegetarian recipes on the net that are easy to implement. Just go to your favorite browser and search away.

3. Vegetarians are the healthiest people because they've given up Meat.

This is not really true. See the problem here is that giving up Meat simply allows you to reduce certain diseases that are associated with consuming meats. However this would mean little to nothing to vegetarians if the vegetarian diets being implemented were not balanced and healthy themselves. An unbalanced meal plan is an unbalanced meal plan no matter what.

4. Vegetarian diets are automatically low in fat.

Again not quite true. As a rule it's true that vegetarian diets are usually lower in saturated fats but this is not saying that this is a low fat diet. Just remember that most vegetarian diet ingredients like seeds, nuts for example are high in vegetable fats. Not to mention the oils used are 100% fatty oils. Fat intake is still a concern even for vegetarians.

5. Vegetarian Diets lack adequate Proteins and are thus unhealthy.

So not ture. The problem here is that most meat eaters are so accustom to equating meat with protein that they automatically forget that protein can be found in legumes, grains and soy. Vegetarian diets when balanced and followed correctly provides more than enough proteins on a daily basis.

Considering Vegetarian Dieting? - Five Things To Know Before You Dish Out The Green

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