“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates.
Who has not heard this famous quote from Hippocrates? It is amazing that back in 430 B.C. people were aware of the importance of healthy eating for living a healthy life, and that today in the 21st century the majority seem to have forgotten about it…
With the hectic lives that we lead in today’s society, many people are far from having healthy eating and lifestyle habits. I strongly believe that many of the health conditions that people suffer from can be improved through a healthy diet. And most importantly, many conditions can be avoided by following a healthy diet.
When you think about the many unnecessary ingredients and chemicals that you find on a prepared food label, you realise the importance of preparing a healthy meal at home from scratch.
I believe that a balanced diet such as the Mediterranean diet is the key to live healthy longer and to put you at a lower risk for cancer and other chronic diseases.
With the hope of encouraging many of you to preparing healthy recipes at home, I leave you with the vegan and gluten free recipe I have prepared for you today: a healthy, nutritious and delicious Mediterranean warm cabbage salad. This delicious Mediterranean dish has cabbage as its main ingredient. Cabbage is rich in antioxidants, fibre, folates, vitamins C and K, calcium, magnesium, … yes that is why it is considered a super food!
If you try this tasty and healthy vegan Mediterranean diet recipe, please let me know, leave a comment and rate it. I would love to know what you come up with. Enjoy!
- 3 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Small potato, peeled and thinly diced
- 2 Garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 White cabbage head, thinly sliced
- 250g (1 cup) cooked organic chickpeas
- 1 Teaspoon Pimentón de la Vera (Spanish Paprika)
- Salt
- Have all the vegetables well washed and prepared as indicated in the ingredients description. Rinse the chickpeas well and drain.
- In a large frying pan heat the olive oil over moderate heat, add the potatoes and a pinch of salt and sauté for about 10 minutes until lightly golden. Add then, in the middle of the frying pan, the garlic and sauté for 1 minute. After that add the drained chickpeas and stir all together for 2 more minutes.
- Remove the frying pan from the heat and put its content aside on a dish.
- Using the same frying pan, add a drop of olive oil and the thinly sliced cabbage, sauté over medium heat for about 5 minutes and remove from the heat.
- Finally add to the cabbage the potatoes, chickpeas and garlic mix that you had left aside, a teaspoon of Pimentón de la Vera (Spanish Paprika) and salt to taste, mix it all together. And serve warm.
You can drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the salad right before serving.
Hi
Was a bit confused… Do you add the potatoes first or the cabbage first? Step 2 says add the potatoes but step 5 says “add to the cabbage (implying the cabbage is already cooked) the potatoes (implying they had not been added yet)…”. So which comes first?
Thank you, it looks wonderful!
Hi Bella, you add the potatoes and the other ingredients as it is indicated on step 2. On step 3 you remove the frying pan from the heat and put its content aside on a dish. On step 4 you add the cabbage to the same frying pan and follow the instructions. And finally on step 5 you add to the cabbage the ingredients that you had put aside on step 3 and mix 😉 Enjoy and happy healthy cooking!
Absolutely delicious Margarita, thanks so much for sharing!
Hi Richard, enjoy! Happy healthy cooking and best wishes for 2019!
Tried your recipe tonight, we absolutely loved it. We are looking for healthy recipes, thanks so much for sharing.
Hi Betty & Jim, I’m very happy to know you like my recipe 🙂 You have plenty of healthy and tasty recipes on the blog, enjoy!
Love it!So tasty and healthy.Made it few times already :))
Hi Aga 🙂
I’m glad you like it! 😀 This is one of my favourite dinners for busy weekdays!
See you soon! xx