Any Time Frittata - Healthy Food Tip and Recipe

healthy food tip and recipe

Today's Recipe If you don't know what to serve for dinner tonight ...
Don't reserve this great frittata for breakfast; it's wonderful for lunch or dinner as well! Zucchini and tomatoes provide excellent sources of health-promoting nutrients to your Healthiest Way of Eating. And you get all of this for only 85 calories!
Any Time Frittata
Prep and Cook Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients:

• 2 whole eggs
• 4 egg whites
• pinch of turmeric
• 1/2 medium onion, chopped fine
• 1 TBS chicken or vegetable broth
• 3 medium cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 cups thinly sliced zucchini
• 1/2 4 oz can diced green chili
• 1 small tomato, chopped with excess pulp removed
• 2 TBS chopped cilantro
• salt and black pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Chop onions and garlic and let sit for at least 5 minutes to enhance their health-promoting properties.
2. Beat together eggs, egg whites, turmeric, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Set aside.
3. Heat 1 TBS broth in 10-12 inch stainless steel skillet. Healthy Sauté onion, garlic, zucchini, and green chili for about 3 minutes stirring frequently.
4. After 3 minutes, add tomato, cilantro, salt, and pepper to zucchini mixture.
5. Pour egg mixture over vegetables. Turn heat to low and cover. Cook for about 10 minutes checking periodically to see if eggs are firm. When done, run a rubber spatula around edge of frittata, cut into four wedges and serve.

Serves 4 Serving Suggestions Serve with

• Romaine & Avocado Salad

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Healthy Food Tip

Is it safe to consume unpasteurized honey?

Under certain circumstances, yes, it is not only safe but also healthy to consume unpasteurized honey. Several studies have found raw, unpasteurized honey to have anti-bacterial properties.
Yet, the unpasteurized honey you purchase needs to be organically produced and carefully collected and packaged with good quality control and sanitary practices. Often, locally produced and seasonally appropriate honey is the most likely to provide the highest quality and safest product. You will also want to make sure that your jar of honey is carefully closed and remains airtight so that moisture from the air will not mix with the honey.
Along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, however, I would make one exception. I would not recommend raw, unpasteurized honey, or even pasteurized honey, for infants under one year of age unless this honey has been certified free of spores. (The spores in this care are spores from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which is responsible for infantile botulism.) This recommendation is simply erring on the side of safety. Pasteurization is not reliable for deactivation of spores nor is filtering, and for newborn infants, I believe such a precaution is worthwhile.