People are often advised, by the nutritionists and the dieticians, to have a heavy breakfast, just like a king does, have a lighter lunch, just like a prince and a dinner just like a pauper, in order to lead a healthy lifestyle. Night is the time when the metabolism rate of human beings is the slowest and thus the food takes a long time to digest. So, you must have your dinner two hours you go to bed. One is also advised to take the lightest possible food in his or her dinner. Otherwise, your stomach disorders can give you sleepless nights. So, you must indulge in gorging on optimum amount of low oil, low fat, low carbohydrate, light food for your dinner.
You can prepare many of the light food for your dinner very quickly too. If you are short on time for preparing your dinner, then you can opt for preparing three of the foods mentioned below, which take less time to prepare, than the other foods. The recipes of the foods are also provided, so that whenever a few guests drop in your house suddenly, on a Sunday evening, for dinner and you have got to prepare a quick food spread for them, you know where to refer to, enabling you to spend more time with your guests chitchatting.
The three healthy food recipes for dinner are as follows:
1) Citrus Chicken Breasts: Take three chicken breasts for serving three guests, which has the skin on it. Slice and place an orange, lime and lemon under the skin of the chicken breasts. The citrus fruits must be in contact with the meat of the chicken breasts. You need to press and pour extra citrus juice all over the chicken breasts. Add pepper and salt to the setup. The arrangement must be baked in 300 degrees over slow oven for an hour. Check whether the chicken is cooked and the juiciness of the chicken is retained.
The food can be enjoyed best with hot brown rice and crispy green salad. The salad dressing can include one-fourth cup olive oil, pepper, salt and half cup of citrus juice.
2) Spring Vegetables Pasta: Spring is one of the best times, when fresh vegetables are available. Add a lot of fresh vegetables, such as fresh peas, baby carrots, asparagus and cherry tomatoes to the pasta preparation. But, four minutes before that let your pasta be cooked over steady heat, until it is almost done. Check whether the vegetables are crisp and then remove the preparation from the flame and twist the pan from side to side. Add considerable amount of herbs, such as parsley and basil, as toppings. Before you serve the food, add virgin olive oil to each of the servings. Also serve some crunchy bread along with the simple but healthy preparation.
3) Vegetables grilled: Each dinner serving should contain one and a half pounds of vegetables. You can include veggies such as eggplant, carrots, zucchini, celery, red onions, yams and portabella mushrooms in your healthy dinner preparations. The vegetables need to be rinsed and scrubbed with clean water. One does not need to peel the vegetable skin. Cut the vegetables in inch chunks. Marinate the veggies in balsamic vinegar, in which crushed garlic, fresh herbs and pepper need to be added. The vegetables are needed to be grilled on a grill. You may also thread the vegetable chunks onto the skewers. Grill the veggies as vegetable kabobs.
The three healthy recipes for your dinner need to be followed strictly, as far as retaining the healthiness of the food is concerned. You must not be tempted to add extra amount of oil in the foods, during their preparation. Always remember, a healthy dinner helps you to start the following day with a smile.