Nutrition
Lettuce Salad
• Lettuce salad
Lettuce is a leafy vegetable usually used in making salads and sandwiches. It can be grouped into four categories known as crisphead, butterhead, loose-leaf and romaine.
Lettuce helps in the prevention of cancer and eases anxiety and stress. It also contains antioxidants which help to bring down inflammation.
Ingredients
Lettuce
1 large tomato (chopped)
1 small cucumber (chopped)
¼ of a small onion (thinly sliced)
1 small carrot (grated)
A pinch of salt
Salad cream (optional)
Preparation
• Rinse and chop some lettuce into a bowl.
• Add the chopped cucumber, onion and grated carrot and mix together.
• Add a pinch of salt and mix well. You can use a fork or spoon to mix it.
• Add salad cream and mix.
• Keep it in the fridge for a little while and serve.
Source: Myrecipe joint
Nutrition
Palm nut soup
Palm nut soup is a Ghanaian dish that can be served with so many foods. It has a rich base of palm nuts combined with tomatoes and various vegetables that makes it very nutritious.
Preparation
Ingredients
– 1 kilogramme of palm nut
– Half kilogramme of beef
-One kilogramme of goat meat
-Three large salmon
-One full tuna
– A handful of turkey berries
-Two large onions
-4 large tomatoes
-3 large garden eggs
– One tin of mackerel
-Ten large peppers
– One large ginger
-2 cloves of garlic
– Four fingers of okro
– Salt to taste
Instructions
-Wash, cook palm nut, turkey berries, and pepper and add salt to it.
-Grind palm nut, turkey berries and pepper with mortar and pestle or mini food processor.
-Wash goat meat, beef, Tuna, salt and put on fire.
– Blend onion, garlic, ginger and tomatoes and pour on the goat meat.
– Add smoked tuna and salmon and okro to the soup.
-Use a spoon or ladle to skim off the surface oil.
-Garnish the soup with the okro or garden eggs as desired.
-Serve with fufu, banku or Omo tuo.
Nutrition
Cucumber and apple smoothie
Ingredients
-Two medium sized cucumber
-Three apples
-Four tablespoonful of honey
-Crushed ice
-Two cups of yoghurt
-One tablespoonful of blended ginger
– One tablespoonful of celery and mint
Preparation
-Wash and slice cucumber, apple into smaller sizes
-Blend until it is smooth
-Add honey and a little water to it
-Add crushed ice and yoghurt
-Blend it till you achieve your desired texture
– Then serve
