Slim Recipes - Blueberry Smoothie Low Carb GI!

Blueberry Smoothie - a perfect energy kick and a slim Low Carb GI recipe! says Pixi today having a slight hangover from last night. But this smoothie is guaranteed to make you brisk and bright! Blueberries are full of vitamin C and good for your eyesight, but if you can't get hold of any blueberries, replace them with strawberries, raspberries or any type of berries you'll like.
For 2 persons you'll need:

2 dl frozen blueberries (or strawberries, raspberries)
1 small box of cottage cheese, natural
3 dl low fat milk or soybean milk
1/2 avocado, chopped
1 tbsp of linseeds
2 eggs
2 tbsp of lemon juice
3 tbsp of fruit sugar

Put all the ingredients in a mixer and mix until smooth. Serve in big glasses. Easy as a pie!

Salmon Fillets with Spinach

Salmon fillet with spinach, pesto, sun dried tomatoes and pine kernels (if you want). Tasty! says Pixi. And a slim GI South Beach diet recipe. For 4 persons you'll need:

4 fillets of salmon à 150 gr
a pinch of salt
a pinch of black pepper, freshly ground
300 gr small spinach leaves, coarsely chopped
2 tbsp ready-made pesto
1 tbsp sun dried tomatoes, chopped
(1 tbsp pine kernels, chopped)

1. Heat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
2. Make a cut in the center of all 4 salmon fillets - through approx two thirds of the fillets. Spice them with salt and pepper.
3. Mix spinach, pesto, tomatoes (and the pine kernels) in a bowl. Portion out the mixture on the fillets and press it in, in the cuts.
4. Place the fillets on a oven sheet covered with oven paper and bake them in the oven for 8 - 10 minutes or until the spinach is hot.

Serve the salmon fillets with oven baked vegetables and a salad.
And this is a recipe from phase 2 of the South Beach diet.

You'll find more tasty Low-Carb recipes in the book South Beach Diet - the Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Health Loss by Dr Arthur Agaston, certifies Pixi. And here, at lowcarbdiets.about.com you can read more about the similarities and differences between the South Beach and the Atkins Diet. Interesting reading, INDEED! says Pixi!

Recipe: GI South Beach - Chicken Ginger & Ricotta

• Chicken, marinated in ginger, lemon and garlic
• Oriental coleslaw with sesame
• Steamed peas
  
• Dessert: Ricotta Chocolate
  

Tonight I cooked my first South Beach GI meal! Pixi announces proudly. A Phase 1 meal. The two first weeks of the diet you kick-start, being very straight to yourself. And that's what Phase 1 is about.

I give the Chicken Ginger a 9 out of 10, Pixi continues. The coleslaw was super. And I like sesame and the peas was very good. The chicken? Fresh and tasty from the lemon. But in the recipe there was no salt, salt is a no-no during the diet, and that I missed.
The Ricotta gets 5 of 10. Ricotta is absolutely tasteless! I didn't want to add the sugar so it didn't taste very much ... at all!


GI South Beach Phase 1:

Marinated Chicken Fillets with Ginger and Garlic

1 tbs fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 tsp fresh, grounded ginger
1/2 tsp black pepper
2 cloves of garlic
4 chicken fillets
olive oil

1. Prepare the marinade: mix lemon juice, ginger, pepper and garlic in a cup.
2. Place the chicken fillets in a bowl and add the marinade. Cover the bowl and put the fillets in the fridge for an hour.
3. Heat a pan to medium heat, add the olive oil and fry the chicken fillets for approx 4 minutes on each side or until they are well done.
This is a recipe for 4 persons.


Oriental Coleslaw

1/2 small head of cabbage, shredded
3 spring onions, chopped
2 tbs dark sesame oil
2 tbs (rice)vinegar
2 tbs sesame seeds, roasted

Mix cabbage, onions, oil and vinegar in a bowl and put it in the fridge. Before serving, add the roasted sesame seeds. Mix well.
Serves 4 persons.


Steamed Peas

If you don't have the means to steam the peas, cook them as normal.

Ricotta Cream with Chocolate

100 gr ricotta cheese
1/4 tbs vanilla
sugar substitute to your taste
1 tsp chopped, dark chocolate

Mix the ingredients in a bowl. Serve the Ricotta Cream well chilled.

Recipe: GI Low Carb - Salad Lyon with poached egg

A low carb GI salad with poached eggs and slices of smoked pork. Tasty! Based on a recipe from Lyon, France.

I wanted to find a new way to prepare the eggs now at Easter, says Pixi. We normally boil our Easter eggs here in Sweden, a bit boring in the long run. And I found this recipe with poached eggs.

I never thought it would be that easy to poach the eggs! And it is very, very tasty with the smoked pork, instead of bacon.
This is a recipe serving 4 persons:

French Low Carb GI Salad from Lyon

approx 250 gr mixed, green salad
250 gr smoked pork
4 eggs, poached or hard boiled
4 slices of whole meal bread in cubes, making croutons
a clove of garlic

Dressing:
2 tbs olive oil
1/2 tbs vinegar
1 tsp French mustard
salt

1. Shred and fry the pork.
2. Make the croutons: Rub a pan with the clove of garlic, cut in two. Add a dash of olive oil and heat it up. Fry the bread cubes until they are crisp and have a nice colour.
3. Poach the eggs: Break the eggs, each in a cup. Boil the water with two tablespoons of vinegar. Take the pan from the heat and let the eggs gently slide into the water. Let the eggs boil on low heat for 4 minutes. Trim the "edges" of the eggs.
4. Put the salad and the pork on the plates. Add the dressing and mix. Then you add the bread cubes, the croutons, and at last the poached eggs.

This is a super GI Low Carb lunch or a starter. At Easter.

Here is another recipe of Salade Lyonnaise with a detailed instruction of how to poach the eggs.

And Pixi says that she actually came to Lyon once. To visit the fantastic Museum of Textiles and Decorative Arts. And silk. But, the museum was closed and she didn't even get a Salade Lyonnaise that very day she visited the town of Lyon, in France ...

Low Carb GI Recipe - Peppers stuffed with Minced Meat and Feta Cheese

Peppers stuffed with Minced Meat and Feta Cheese! A real favourite when I started my Low-Carb GI Quick Start Diet, says Pixi. Easy to prepare, low GI and sooo tasty!
A recipe for 4 persons:

4 peppers - 2 red, 2 yellow
1 small onion
1 clove of garlic
150 gr feta cheese
300 gr minced meat
8 - 10 champignons
1 tsk oregano
salt&pepper
butter

1. Heat the oven to 250 degrees Celsius.
2. Cut off the top of the peppers and take out the seeds.
3. Peel and chop the garlic and the onion finely.
4. Slice the champignons.
5. Cut the feta cheese in cubes.
6. Melt the butter in a frying pan, sauté the garlic and the onion, add the sliced champignons, the minced meat, the feta cheese and flavour with the salt & pepper and the oregano. Mix and let it fry slightly a minute or so.
7. Fill the peppers with the minced meat mixture, put some feta cheese on the top and place them in a buttered ovenproof tin or pan.
8. Place the pan in the center of the oven and bake the peppers in 250 degrees Celsius for about 20-25 minutes, until the minced meat is well done.
Decorate with parsley and serve!