Healthy Father’s
You love your Father or Pop Pop. That’s why you should Prepair him a Father’s Day menu that he can use for the rest of the year and that’s as healthy as it is delicious. Here’s a Father’s Day Plan that takes advantage of fresh summer produce and grilling to add flavor without a ton of extra fat and calories. As a result dad is really happy and it’s a healthy father’s day.GoiMRS2000 is here to share some healthy meal tips and tricks for a healthy father’s day and a healthy summer. Be sure to share the tips and the love with your loved ones as we enter summer 2017!
Beggine with a flavor-packed salsa fresca.
Basic Salsa Fresca
My food memories involve salsa in every form with my Latin friends. Hot, not-so-spicy you could not eat it , chunky, cooked, raw, you name it, if it could be made we made it . Nothing is as good as scooping a freshly fried and salted corn chip into pico de gallo, but this salsa isn’t just for snacking. I chopped up the garlic and use it over grilled fish, sprinkle it over kabobs, tuck it inside tacos made with sizzling fajitas, and it’s a fantastic filling for the hollowed out half of an avocado. It is a versatile condiment, one I’m pretty sure I’ve eaten on just about every food imaginable over my lifetime.
- 2 cups chopped and seeded tomatoes
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 to 1 white onion, chopped (amount depends on your personal preference)
- 1-2 jalapenos, finely chopped, seeds are just fine!
- A pinch of sea salt to taste
- A tiny pinch of cumin, optional
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro, loosely packed
Grilled Skirt Steak
Next we have Skirt steak which is red meat that is very lean and great for grilling. This dish gets a lot of low-calorie flavor from a vinegar-y chimichurri sauce. “Meat is high in both protein and iron,” says Stirling-Reed of SR Nutrition and a fellow of the Association for Nutrition. “As a number of groups in the UK have low intakes of iron, red meat can play a beneficial role in reducing the risk of iron deficiency anaemia.” A 2012 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also revealed that eating lean beef actually improved cholesterol levels and reduced the risk of heart disease.
CHIMICHURRI SAUCE
- 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt plus more
- 3-4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced or minced
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 1 Fresno chile or red jalapeño, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup minced fresh cilantro
- 1/4 cup minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh oregano
- 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Put your grill to work and toast baguettes. A excelent choice would be a whole-wheat baguette.
- Grilled baguettes: Brush them with organic extra virgen olive oil, then grill them face down.
A fruit dessert is always a no-brainer when you want to get a little nutrition in with your sweet tooth. Keep the grill going and layer on the fruit. Grilled Watermelon grill wedges and top with jalapeno
- Grilled Watermelon grill wedges and top with jalapeno and cilantro
Turn your coleslaw into a healthy food opption by adding vinaigrette-based dressings, Cabbage is incredibly healthy, offering a dose of cancer-preventing antioxidants.
- Tangy Coleslaw
You can’t go wrong with A vegatable medley ! These grilled vegetables are an excellent side dish, plus leftovers keep well for additions to salads and sandwiches later on.
Grilled Vegetables Medley
- 3 red bell peppers, seeded and halved
- 4 yellow squash (about 1 pound total), sliced lengthwise into 1/2-inch-thick rectangles
- 3 zucchini (about 12 ounces total), sliced lengthwise into 1/2-inch-thick rectangles
- 4 Japanese eggplant (12 ounces total), sliced lengthwise into 1/2-inch-thick rectangles
- 18 cremini mushrooms
- 1 bunch (1-pound) asparagus, trimmed
An Easy, Healthy Father’s Day Menu
- 18 green onions, roots cut off
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh basil leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary leaves
