Vegetarian Weight Loss Recipes
This blog is all about giving you some delicious recipes, which you can use to make great food at home. Some of these will be pure vegetarian, and some lacto-ovo vegetarian. Choose the meals you want to make and enjoy making them. You can have lots of fun building on these recipes and experimenting with them.
Vegetarian Lunches
Lunch is important to get you through the day and stop you wanting to grab snacks. Many of these lunches can be taken to work so that you can eat a healthy meal in the middle of the day and stick to your diet.
Tofu Peanut Wrap
Serves 1.
Time to make: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
• 8” whole wheat flour tortilla • 2oz baked seasoned tofu (sliced thinly)
• ¼ cup red bell pepper (sliced)
• 1 tablespoon Thai peanut sauce
• 8 snow peas (thinly sliced)
Method:
1) Spread the peanut sauce on the tortilla.
2) Place the rest of the ingredients in the middle, fold the sides over and roll up
Grapefruit and Cranberry Mixed Green Salad
Serves 12.
Time to make: 25 minutes
Ingredients:
• 2 red grapefruit • 6 cups baby spinach • 8 cups torn butter lettuce • 14oz can heart of palm (drained and cut into 1” chunks)
• Third of a cup each of toasted pine nuts and dried cranberries
• 2 tablespoons minced scallion
• 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
• ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
• Salt / pepper to taste
Method:
1) Carefully remove the skin and pith from each grapefruit.
2) Holding the whole grapefruit over a bowl, cut the segments out and then cut them in half. Put these in a large salad bowl.
3) Squeeze what is left of the grapefruit (peel / pith) over a bowl to get about a quarter of a cup of grapefruit juice.
4) Whisk the scallions, vinegar and oil into the bowl with the grapefruit juice and season to taste.
5) Add the spinach, hearts of palm and lettuce to the salad bowl containing the grapefruit segments.
6) Prior to serving, toss the salad in the dressing to coat well and sprinkle the pine nuts and cranberries on top.
