30 Plants A Week is a challenge I am so down to do. The benefits of a healthy gut has a domino effect of goodness that radiates out through your whole body. These Filipino recipes will get you over that 30 mark in no time!
During the summer my daughter and I started a new thing. Eating at least 30 different plants a week. It's been so fun eating our meals together and counting how many different fruits, vegetables, beans and grains we have been eating.
If you want to know more about the 30 Plants a week challenge Zoe explains it well.
1. Pancit Salad Bowl
This veggie forward Pancit Salad Bowl will give you 7!!!! Plants in just one meal.
It has green beans, tofu, tomato, red cabbage, carrots, peppers and Mangoes.
2. Kare Kare Salad
This has plants in the sauce and in the body of the Kare Kare Salad.
It has bok choy, egg plant, califlower, green beans, peanuts, radicchio and tofu. 7 different plants all in one bowl!
3. Green Mango Salad
This salad has green mango, tomatoes, shallots, chives and watercress.
4. Mushroom Sisig
Traditional Sisig is made with lots of different pig parts. This one is made with two different types of mushrooms mixed with picked onions, chives and calamansi juice.
5. Panzanella with Pandesal
Use a different kind of green leaves for this salad like a bitter radicchio and different colored tomatoes. The pesto adds more plants with the addition of malunggay and cashews.
6. Ginataang Bilo Bilo
This lighter version of Bilo Bilo has fresh fruit like persimmon, kiwi, blueberries and strawberries. With the addition of chia seeds and coconut milk, you have 6 plants in just one bowl!
7. Ginataang Adlai
Okay this is just a whole bowl of plant goodness here. Adlai, saba, langka, chia and coconut. You can even add some mint as well!
8. Halo Halo
If you replace the preserved fruit and beans with fresh ones, Halo Halo can be oh so good for you. This healthier version has fresh strawberries, grapes and mangoes.
9. Ginataang Sitaw and Kalabasa Quiche
You can have so much fun with your food doing this 30 plants a week challenge. Like this Quiche. Using ready made puff pastry and filling it with a coconut cream base and topping it with kalabasa and sitaw and a variety of herbs and edible flowers.
10. Patani on Toast
This was from my Bahay Kubo Cooking Series. I actually made many recipes using the vegetables in the song. So you should check that out.
One of them was this beans on toast recipe. So simple, yet so good and filling.
I hope this list of pant packed recipes inspires you to join the 30 plants a week movement! Studies show that it improves high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
So tell me how many different plants made it on to your list?
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