not everyone likes to eat vegetables in its traditional form with roti or rice. Excluding them from the diet could increase the risk of nutritional deficiencies, obesity and even chronic diseases. Vegetables, especially green leafy ones, are rich in soluble and insoluble fiber, vitamins, minerals, calcium, iron, folate, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium. They also help with constipation and support bone health. People with diabetes and cardiovascular conditions are advised to eat them in large quantities to manage their condition. (Also read: Delicious Ways to Include Leafy Greens in Your Diet This Winter)
But what if you don’t like to eat vegetables at all? There are many ways to include them in your diet. Nutritionist Pooja Makhija in her recent Instagram video suggests 5 easy ways to eat your vegetables in a way that will make you fall in love with them.
VEGETABLE JUICE
One way to reap the benefits of all those glorious antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals in vegetables is to juice them. The good thing is that you can include more than one vegetable in your juice, although you would still be missing out on fiber.
“Take any of the three colors, make a juice and enjoy all the goodness of antioxidants,” says Pooja Makhija.
DELICIOUS SOUP
If chewing vegetables is not your thing, you can make soups with vegetables. Whether it’s spinach, fenugreek, carrot, peas, tomato, chop these vegetables, add some flavors, herbs, a little bit of broth, chicken broth, anything that allows you to have fiber and fiber.
TASTY PARATAS
Grate the vegetables and knead them into parathas, Makhija suggests. The nutritionist says that instead of making vegetable parathas, one can knead them into the dough and “no one would know you’re eating fiber and your vegetables.”
PIZZA
Take vegetables, be it carrots, spinach or whatever is available. Put two tablespoons of any flour (whole wheat flour, ragi flour) and then make a pizza base with it. Add some marina sauce, some pasta sauce, pizza sauce, cheese and voila.
DELICIOUS PASTA
Makhija says that a delicious paste can also be prepared with the help of vegetables. Grate the pumpkin or carrots and make a sauce with them. You can add this sauce to your pasta and this way you can eat your vegetables and enjoy them.
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