What to Eat: Cleansers
With post-holiday pounds on your waistline, it’s time to get serious about getting your figure back—but that doesn’t mean resigning yourself to a winter of food discontents.
Dorling Kindersley
Carrot and Orange Saladby Victoria Blashford-Snell and Brigitte Hafner
With this recipe from an international cooking duo, you can skip your morning multi-vitamin.
Salad is obviously a great place to start when thinking about eating light, and if you can get in a handful of your daily dose of vitamins, even better. Oranges, of course, are chock full of Vitamin C, and carrots come with a hat trick of Vitamins A, B, and C. Peppery watercress, which forms the green base of this salad, is also a Vitamin C powerhouse.
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Clear-Steamed Chicken Soup with Gingerby Nina Simonds
You’ll gladly trade in that bucket of fried wings for this delicious but far less fattening dish from a James Beard Book Award winner for health.
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Nina Simonds explains that “clear-steaming, otherwise known as double-boiling, is a simple technique used by Chinese cooks, where a food is cooked slowly within a closed container. The result is a very clear, intense broth.” This soup makes you feel purified just thinking about it.
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Soba Noodles with Broccoli Sauceby Judith Finlayson
Satiate your desire for carbs the nutritious way with this recipe from the master and author of The Healthy Slow Cooker.
Everyone knows whole grains are the healthiest of carbohydrates. But let’s face it: Whole-wheat spaghetti tastes more like cardboard than pasta. Soba noodles, on the other hand, which are made out of buckwheat, are deeply flavorful. Covered in a vitamin-packed broccoli sauce, this might be the healthiest noodle dish one can find.
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Halibut Steamed with Fresh Gingerby Nancie McDermott
A fish dish with antioxidants galore will help you get back your swimmer’s build.
Light and filling, fish is a great way to reverse the damage of December. This halibut is steamed, which means all the natural healthy fats and oils remain intact, so you don’t have to add oil or other fatty sauces to get the rich flavor you want. Ginger is a terrific antioxidant, too, and adds a delicate flavor without additional calories.
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Clementines with Balsamic Vinegar and Pepper by Mario Batali
The legendary Italian chef keeps the cooking simple—and your diet on track—with this sweet and fruity finisher.
Just because we’re trying to slim down doesn’t mean we want to skip dessert. Clementines are the tiniest, sweetest tangerines—their sweetness comes from natural sugars—and are a perfect healthy way end to a meal. Leave it to Mario Batali to fancy up tangerines by adding rich balsamic vinegar and lots of fresh ground black pepper for what he calls “an adult take on simplicity.”
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