Delicious light food recipes you must try

A healthy diet includes eating light foods that can give you nutritional benefits and are easy to digest at the same time. Some light food items are scallions, eggplant, cucumber, sweet potato, carrot, beetroot, tomato, broccoli, and the list goes on. It is recommended to include light food in your daily diet as it promotes weight loss, keeps you energized, is easy to digest, and provides you with all the needed nutritional benefits. On top of it all, these meals are easy to prepare. Below, we have listed some delicious light food recipes that you must try.

A. FRUIT SALAD

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 3 minutes
Serves: 1

Ingredients

½ cup papaya
½ cup pineapple
1 tbsp cumin seed powder
1 tbsp fennel seed powder
A pinch of salt
¼ cup apple
2 diced prunes
2 tbsp lime juice

Directions

1. Toss all the fruits in the bowl.
2. Add fennel seed powder and cumin seed powder to the bowl. Also, add a pinch of salt and lime juice.
3. Give this light food a good mix.

B. BREAKFAST SMOOTHIE

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 2 minutes
Serves: 1

Ingredients

½ cup celery (chopped)
½ cup peach
1 tbsp honey
A pinch of salt
½ cup spinach

Directions

1. Put spinach, celery, and peach in the blender and give it a spin.
2. Pour the blend into a glass.
3. Add salt and honey to the glass.
4. Give your smoothie a mix and serve.

C. LETTUCE WRAP

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Serves: 2

Ingredients

¼ cup apple (finely chopped)
¼ cup cucumber (chopped)
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt to taste
Cilantro (handful)
¼ red onions (chopped)
½ cup tomatoes (chopped)
6 Jalapenos
½ tsp black pepper
¼ cup shredded chicken breasts
2 crunchy lettuce leaves

Directions

1. Toss pepper, salt, olive oil, jalapenos, cucumber, chicken breast, apple, tomatoes, and red onions in a bowl.
2. Spread two spoons of this mix on the lettuce.
3. Add cilantro leaves on the top.
4. Make a wrap and serve this light food.

D. BROCCOLI CASSEROLE

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 2

Ingredients

1 ½ Broccoli florets
½ cup chopped carrots
¼ cup diced zucchini
½ cup crumbled tofu
3 tbsp olive oil
6 slices of eggplant
Salt to taste
¼ cup peas
½ tbsp dried herbs
2 tbsp lime juice
½ tbsp black pepper

Directions

1. Mix all the vegetables and then add black pepper, salt, lime juice, dried herbs and olive oil.
2. Add the vegetable mix to the casserole pot.
3. Add crumbled tofu on the top.
4. Preheat the oven and bake it for 15 minutes.
5. Now, serve the casserole.

E. THAI PRAWN CURRY

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 2

Indegridients

50g french beans
1 chopped red pepper
1 tbsp thai fish sauce
200 ml chicken stock
3 tbsp lime juice
4-5 basil leaves
4 tbsp olive oil
Cilantro leaves
200g medium-sized prawns
Thai red curry paste

Directions

1. To prepare this light food, take a frying pan and heat olive oil in it. After that, add french beans to the pot and fry them for 2 minutes.
2. Add red pepper to the pot and fry it for half a minute.
3. Now, add herbs, prawns, thai red curry paste, fish sauce and chicken stock to thepot. Cook until the beans are soft.
4. Add lime juice and coconut milk to the mix. Cook for the next 2 minutes over medium heat.