Pomegranate juice and seeds is packed with antioxidants and nutrients, which offers some impressive health benefits, including reducing “bad” LDL cholesterol, and keeping blood pressure in check.

It’s one of the super healthy foods you can add to your smoothies if you’re wanting to improve your heart health in particular.

The tiny little seeds are highly nutritious so you’ll probably want to use these in your pomegranate smoothies as much as possible.

The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between 5 and 10 m tall.
Young pomegranate in Side, Turkey

The pomegranate originated in the region extending from Iran to northern India, and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout the Mediterranean region. It was introduced into Spanish America in the late 16th century and into California by Spanish settlers in 1769.

The fruit is typically in season in the Northern Hemisphere from September to February, and in the Southern Hemisphere from March to May. As intact sarcotestas or juice, pomegranates are used in baking, cooking, juice blends, meal garnishes, smoothies, and alcoholic beverages, such as cocktails and wine.

Ingredients

• 1 cup pears, diced
• 1 large banana, (3/4 cup sliced)
• 1/4 cup pomegranate
• 2 cups frozen strawberries
• 2 teaspoons minced ginger
• 1 cup ice
• 1 cup pomegranate juice

Instructions

Step 1

Add all ingredients in a blender.

Step 2

Blend for about 90 seconds or until the mixture is smooth.

Step 3

Add more pomegranate juice or ice as needed to achieve a thick and creamy consistency.

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The pinto bean is a variety of common bean, in Spanish they are called frijol pinto [fri.ˈxol ˈpin.to], literally “speckled bean” (compare pinto horse). It is the most popular bean in Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States, and is most often eaten whole (sometimes in broth), or mashed and then refried. Either way, it is a common filling for burritos in Mexican cuisine, or as a side dish in New Mexican cuisine.

In South America, it is known as the poroto frutilla, literally “strawberry bean”. In Portuguese, the Brazilian name is feijão carioca (literally “carioca bean”; contrary to popular belief, the beans were not named after Rio de Janeiro, but after a pig breed that has the same color as the legume), which differs from the name in Portugal: feijão catarino. Additionally, the young immature pods may be harvested and cooked as green pinto beans. There are a number of different varieties of pinto bean, notably some originating from Northern Spain, where an annual fair is dedicated to the bean.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 poblano chiles, seeded and diced
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon cumin
• 5 cups vegetable stock
• 340 gr red or Yukon gold potatoes, cut into ½-in. pieces (about 2½ cups)
• 425 gr cans pinto beans, drained, rinsed, and lightly mashed
• 1½ teaspoons kitchen salt
• ¼ cup fresh parsley

Instructions

Step 1

Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high.

Step 2

Add chilies and onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables start to soften, about 5 minutes.

Step 3

Add cumin and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add stock and potatoes; bring to a boil.

Step 4

Reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender, 12 to 15 minutes. Stir in beans and salt.

Step 5

Cover and simmer until warmed through, about 5 minutes.

Serve chili topped with radishes, cilantro, and a dash of hot sauce.

Notes

Hot sauce, for serving.

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Cheesecake is a sweet dessert consisting of one or more layers. The main, and thickest layer, consists of a mixture of soft, fresh cheese (typically cream cheese or ricotta), eggs, and sugar. If there is a bottom layer, it often consists of a crust or base made from crushed cookies (or digestive biscuits), graham crackers, pastry, or sometimes sponge cake. It may be baked or unbaked (usually refrigerated).

Cheesecake is usually sweetened with sugar and may be flavored in many different ways. It may be flavored by adding vanilla, spices, lemon, chocolate, pumpkin, or other flavors to the cheese layer. Additional flavors and visual appeal may be added by topping the finished pie with fruit, whipped cream, nuts, cookies, fruit sauce, chocolate syrup, or other toppings.

According to the name of this dessert, we can see that the main ingredient of the cake is cheese. Cheesecake is a kind of sweet dessert that consists of more than one layer. The cheesecake is cooked in two ways, the baked cheesecake and the no baked cheesecake. With this, the no-bake cheesecake recipe makes the most delicious, simple dessert you’ll ever eat!

Ingredients

• 1 and 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
• 680 gr cream cheese softened
• 1 and 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
• 1 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup cold heavy whipping cream

Instructions

Step 1

In a medium bowl, combine the cookie crumbs and melted butter. Mix until crumbs are well coated with butter.

Step 2
Pat the mixture into the bottom of a springform pan, covering the pan seam and extending up the sides 1 to 2 inches.

Step 3

with a handheld electric mixer, beat the cream cheese on medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 3 minutes.

Step 4

Add the confectioners  sugar and mix on low speed until the sugar is moistened. Then turn the speed up to medium and continue mixing until well combined, about 2 minutes.

Step 5

Add the vanilla, and salt. Mix on medium speed until well incorporated, about 1 minute.

Step 6

Add the heavy cream. Beat on low speed until the cream is well mixed in.

Step 7
Pour the filling over the prepared crust and spread to the edges of the pan. Refrigerate for at least 8 hours.

A hamburger (also burger for short) is a sandwich consisting of one or more cooked patties of ground meat, usually beef, placed inside a sliced bread roll or bun. The patty may be pan fried, grilled, smoked or flame broiled. Hamburgers are often served with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, bacon, or chiles; condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, relish, or “special sauce”; and are frequently placed on sesame seed buns. A hamburger topped with cheese is called a cheeseburger.

The term “burger” can also be applied to the meat patty on its own, especially in the United Kingdom, where the term “patty” is rarely used, or the term can even refer simply to ground beef. Since the term hamburger usually implies beef, for clarity “burger” may be prefixed with the type of meat or meat substitute used, as in beef burger, turkey burger, bison burger, or veggie burger.

Hamburgers are sold at fast-food restaurants, diners, and specialty and high-end restaurants (where burgers may sell for several times the cost of a fast-food burger, but may be one of the cheaper options on the menu). There are many international and regional variations of the hamburger.

Ingredients

• 1 kg ground beef
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3/4 cup dry bread crumbs
• 3 tablespoons evaporated milk
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 2 cloves garlic, minced

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat grill for high heat.

Step 2

In a large bowl, mix the ground beef, egg, bread crumbs, evaporated milk, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne pepper, and garlic using your hands. Form the mixture into 8 hamburger patties.

Step 3

Lightly oil the grill grate. Grill patties 5 minutes per side, or until well done.

Notes

Aluminum foil can be used to keep food moist, cook it evenly, and make clean-up easier.

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A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that originated in the United States and features chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient. Circa 1938, Ruth Graves Wakefield added chopped up bits from a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie.

The traditional recipe starts with a dough composed of butter and both brown and white sugar, semi-sweet chocolate chips and vanilla. Variations on the recipe may add other types of chocolate, as well as additional ingredients such as nuts or oatmeal. There are also vegan versions with the necessary ingredient substitutions, such as vegan chocolate chips, vegan margarine, egg substitute, and so forth. A chocolate chocolate chip cookie uses a dough flavored with chocolate or cocoa powder, before chocolate chips are mixed in. These variations of the recipe are often referred to as ‘double’ or ‘triple’ chocolate chip cookies, depending on the combination of dough and chocolate types.

Ingredients

• 1 cup salted butter
• 1 cup white (granulated) sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar packed
• 2 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• ½ tablespoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon sea salt
• 2 cups chopped chocolate

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.

Step 2

In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder. Set aside.

Step 3

Cream together butter and sugars until combined.

Step 4

Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy.

Step 5

Mix in the dry ingredients until combined.

Step 6

Add 12 oz (336gr) package of chocolate chips and mix well.

Step 7

Use a small cookie scoop to make your cookies.

Step 8

Bake in preheated oven for approximately 8-10 minutes. Take them out when they are just barely starting to turn brown.

Step 9

Let them sit on the baking pan for 2 minutes before removing to cooling rack.

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The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as the beet, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet. It is one of several cultivated varieties of Beta vulgaris grown for their edible taproots and leaves (called beet greens); they have been classified as B. vulgaris subsp. vulgaris ‘Conditiva’ Group.

Besides being used as a food, beets have uses as a food colouring and as a medicinal plant. Many beet products are made from other Beta vulgaris varieties, particularly sugar beet.

Persian street food in Iran comes with many options. Steamed beets are Delicious street food in Iran during fall and winter. In this article, we are going to teach you the best way to cook beets step by step.

Beetroot contains a lot of sugar found in all vegetables but has low calories and low cholesterol levels. By adding beetroot to your daily diet, you can enjoy many benefits and maintain a healthy body.

Ingredients

• 5 medium-size beets
• 4 tablespoons sugar

Instructions

Step 1

First, wash the beetroots without peeling them. Leave the skins on the beet. Just cut off small roots with a knife.

Step 2
Now pour in a large saucepan of 4 to 5 cups of water and put the beets in it and close the lid to cook.

Step 3
After 2 to 3 hours, the beets are cooked and the water is reduced.

Step 4

Remove the beets from the saucepan and peel.

Step 5

Chop beets and mix the sugar with the remaining water in the pot.

Step 6

Then pour the beet rings into the pot and heat again until the juice is thickening.

Step 7

After about an hour, the water was drawn out. Now we can serve our delicious beets.

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A smoothie is a drink made from pureed raw fruit, vegetables, and sometimes dairy products (milk, yogurt, ice-cream or cottage cheese), typically using a blender. Smoothies may be made using other ingredients, such as water, crushed ice, fruit juice, sweeteners (e.g. honey, sugar, stevia, or syrup), whey powder, plant milk, nuts, nut butter, seeds, tea, chocolate, herbal supplements, or nutritional supplements. A smoothie containing dairy products is similar to a milkshake, though the latter typically contains less fruit and often uses ice cream or frozen yogurt.

Kiwi and Banana Smoothie s a kind of healthy smoothie. You can make this smoothie in two ways with milk or yogurt or without yogurt and milk so you can taste fruity drinks.

Ingredients

• 1.5 Ripe Kiwifruits
• 1 Ripe Banana
• 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup Orange Juice or Almond Milk
• 1/2 tablespoon Honey

Instructions

Step 1

Peel and cut banana and kiwi fruits into medium pieces.

Step 2
Pour orange juice in the jar of a blender.

Step 3
Add chopped banana, kiwi and honey.

Step 4

Blend them until smooth. Kiwi banana smoothie is ready; pour it into a serving glass and serve.

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Chocolate puddings are a class of desserts with chocolate flavors. There are two main types: a boiled then chilled dessert, texturally a custard set with starch, commonly eaten in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Sweden, Poland, and East and South East Asia; and a steamed/baked version, texturally similar to cake, popular in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany and New Zealand.

Chocolate Pudding : Australian version

In Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, chocolate pudding is similar in preparation to the Daily Do[clarification needed] versions in early 20th century United States. It is a steamed dessert which consists of flour, baking powder, sugar, whole eggs, vanilla aroma, and cocoa powder or chocolate mixed together to make a batter and steamed or baked similar to Christmas pudding. Texturally it is similar to chocolate cake, but denser courtesy of being steamed or baked with boiling water poured over the pudding batter.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons corn starch
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 cocoa powder
• 2 cups of milk
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 3 egg yolks
• Vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon

Instructions

Step 1

In a pot add milk, egg yolk, cocoa powder, sugar, and corn starch. Put in on the heat, allow it to gently heat up and stir to dissolve corn and cocoa.

Step 2

Then continue to stir on the heat until the mixture thickens and boils.

Step 3

Lower heat to and stir for another 30 seconds. Turn off the heat and add the chocolate chips, vanilla and butter and continue stirring until they melt.

Step 4

Then transfer the pudding to the bowl and cover it and leave in the fridge for 4 hours.

French toast is a dish made of sliced bread soaked in eggs and typically milk, then fried. Alternative names and variants include “eggy bread”, “Bombay toast”, “German toast”, “gypsy toast”,and “poor knights” (of Windsor).

When French toast is served as a sweet dish, milk, sugar, vanilla or cinnamon are also commonly added before pan-frying, and then it may be topped with sugar (often powdered sugar), butter, fruit, or syrup. When it is a savory dish, it is generally fried with a pinch of salt and/or pepper, and can then be served with a sauce such as ketchup or mayonnaise.

Ingredients

• 4 pieces toast (thickly sliced)
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk – I used evaporated milk (unsweetened condensed milk)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4-5 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 – 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder
• Butter – for frying

Instructions

Step 1
Cut away the edges of each toast and then cut each piece into sticks about an inch thick.

Step 2

In a bowl, whisk together the milk, eggs and salt.

Step 3

In a plate, combine the sugar and cinnamon powder.

Step 4

Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large pan over medium-high heat.

Step 5

Roll a piece of stick on the egg-milk mixture making sure all sides are covered, shake off excess.

Step 6

Place in pan and repeat with the other sticks until the pan is filled but the pieces are not touching each other. Turn the sticks until all sides are golden.

Step 7

Transfer them to the plate with the cinnamon sugar and roll to coat all sides.

Step 8

Transfer to a serving plate, then repeat the process for the next batch.

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The chocolate marble cake or two-color cake after the plain sponge cake is probably the most popular and most used cake. Homemade chocolate marble cake is easy and simple to make and the ingredients are not hard to find.  Here’s a chocolate marble cake recipe, Hope you make it and enjoy it.

History of Marble Cake

A marble cake is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance (like marble) achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. It can be a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake, in which case it is mainly vanilla, with streaks of chocolate. Other possibilities are strawberry or other fruit flavors, or (particularly in marbled coffee cakes) cinnamon or other spices.

The first print references to marble cake begin appearing in the last quarter of the 19th century. One popular variation of this recipe during Victorian times was “Harlequin cake,” which was baked with checkerboard patterns. Early recipes used molasses and spices to achieve the dark-colored batter.

The world’s largest marble cake was made for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, for an episode on Turkmenistan’s authoritarian president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. It was 600 square feet (56 m2) and featured an edible image of Berdimuhamedow falling off a horse, with a marble-textured frame and red trimmings. According to Oliver, Guinness World Records, which was criticized in the episode for its relations with authoritarian regimes, refused to certify the record unless the show signed a contract prohibiting it from criticizing the company. The cake was presented on 11 August 2019 and shared with the show’s audience, with the remains going to City Harvest.

Ingredients

• Melted butter, to grease
• 1¼ cups self-raising flour, plus extra to dust
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 125 gr butter, at room temperature
• 2 eggs
• 1½ tablespoon vanilla essence or extract
• ⅓ cup milk
• 2 tablespoon cocoa powder, sifted
• 1½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 2½ tablespoon milk, extra

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 170ºC. Brush a 22 cm, 2 liter fluted ring cake tin with the melted butter to grease well, then dust lightly with extra flour, tapping out any excess.

Step 2

Place the flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and milk in a large mixing bowl and use electric beaters to beat on low until combined. Increase the speed to high and beat for 3-4 minutes or until paler in color and silky smooth in texture.

Step 3

Transfer half the mixture to a separate bowl. Mix the cocoa powder, cinnamon and extra milk to a smooth paste. Add to one portion of the batter and use a spatula or wooden spoon to mix until well combined.

Step 4

Drop alternate spoonfuls of the vanilla and chocolate cake batters into the greased tin and  use a butter knife or palette knife to swirl together to make a marbled effect.

Step 5

Bake for 55-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Stand the cake in the tin for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely (about 1½ hours).

Notes

This cake will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.