Wednesday, July 8, 2009

easy beans, greens, and seeds

This is a high-protein meal, good for building muscles (if you exercise), and easy for me because it uses garden produce.

Ingredients for 2 servings:
about 5 oz chopped collard greens or other greens (kale, chard, mustard, bok choy)
1 leek or onion
1 16 oz can tomatoes
another veggie if you have one: e.g., zucchini, eggplant, mushrooms, about 1 cup chopped.
various herbs (today I had chives, dill, tarragon, basil, parsley from the garden)
1 cup cooked or canned beans
1 Tbsp each sunflower, pumpkin, hemp seeds (or any combination, all sunflower, whatever you have), grind in coffee grinder

Collards and kale take the longest to cook. Cook them and the leek/onion on stove top for 20 minutes or pressure cooker for 2 minutes (get a pressure cooker!). Then add everything else, cook for a little longer (5 minutes on stove, 30 sec in pressure cooker).

This was even better at dinner. Maybe it was the herbs. They added a nice flavor, especially the dill.

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