Food plays a vital part of any event as it attracts and satisfies the guests. In an event like birthday parties or get together functions, people from various age groups will be present. The best option is to serve the guests with healthy food yet delicious ones! This will make sure your guests enjoy a healthy yet satisfying meal.

Some healthy food recipes you could consider including in your event are as follows:

Vegetable Clear Soup

Serve your guests with a healthy starter. A vegetable clear soup will just take 15 to 20 minutes to prepare and contains many nutritious ingredients. This soup includes mixed vegetables such as carrots, beans, cauliflower, and capsicum.

Heat ½ teaspoon of oil in a saucepan and add ginger, garlic and finely chopped onions, the white part of spring onions and saute for a min. Add the chopped veggies and keep stirring with water till the veggies are cooked well. To make it flavorful, add a little salt, pepper and cornflour water and mix it well. It will thicken the soup. Finally, add the green part of the spring onions and stir it. Vegetable clear soup is now ready to serve hot!

Antioxidant salad

After a soup, a salad would be ideal for a perfect meal! Antioxidant salads provide a delicious blend of broccoli, zucchini, purple cabbage and lettuce leaves. This salad will definitely help maintain your health as well as please your taste buds!

Break the broccoli florets and zucchini into pieces and place them in the pan of hot water and drain it after some time. Remove the moisture from the salad leaves by squeezing it. Place the drained broccoli and zucchini on top of the salad leaves. Add chopped cabbage. Make the dressing by adding lemon juice into a small bowl, adding garlic, salt, and pepper and mixing it.  Now pour the dressing over this and toss gently till all the ingredients are coated with the dressing. Add roasted flax and sunflower seeds and enjoy your healthy antioxidant salad!

Oats upma

Upma is one of South India’s easy to make recipes.  This can be made healthy by using oats in it. Oats upma definitely has an excellent taste with fresh vegetables which is loaded up with a lot of healthy fibers!

Heat oil in the pan and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Once they start sputtering, add chopped onions, green chilies, and curry leaves. After stirring the mixture well, add chopped tomatoes, and cook for 3-5 minutes. Finally, add the oatmeal and cook only for a minute or two as you wouldn't want the oats to overcook. Serve right away!

Bajra mooli rotis

For the main course, usually rice items are served. Along with it, Bajra mooli rotis are one of the best options for a healthy dish. Even though rotis are the usual north Indian food but still it can be made delicious by using grated raddish in bajra flour.

Mix together grated radish, radish leaves, carom seeds (ajwain), red chili powder, green chilies and salt in a bowl. Add millet flour and warm water as required and knead into a dough. Make the roti and cook till both sides are equally gold and crisp. Serve hot!

Vegan ice cream

How much ever you eat, you cannot miss eating ice cream after any meal! Especially while conducting any event, ice creams are a perfect diary-rich dessert. Vegan ice creams are actually better than any other ice cream.

Use a blender and add frozen bananas, 2 spoons of peanut butter, ¾ teaspoon of cocoa powder and few drops of vanilla essence. Keep blending till all the ingredients have smoothly mixed. Take out into a serving dish and sprinkle chopped nuts on top. That’s it! Your vegan ice cream is ready to eat!

You can definitely ensure each and every food item in your meal is delicious and healthy. If you like to serve your guests with healthy foods like these, approach Health Food Caterers!