Once you have any lifestyle disorder like cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure or any other health condition it becomes very tough to eat something that you actually like and moreover foods that taste good. Everything seems to be bland, tasteless and boring. So as a daily routine you just keep on searching for cholesterol friendly recipes
Below is one of the cholesterol friendly recipes for a cold sauce that helps you manage / reduce cholesterol and this can be consumed as a side dish with any snack.
Ingredients
- 50 gm coriander
- 20 gm mint
- Green chillies (as required)
- 8-10 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp flax seeds
- 1 tsp Indian plantago / isabgol
- Salt (as per taste)
- 1 tsp jeera
- 10 ml lemon juice
- Water as needed
Procedure:
- Chop coriander leaves and mint
- Separate the garlic cloves
- Mix all the above ingredients
- Blend to make it a paste
- Serve
What do these ingredients do to your body?
Garlic
- Lowers cholesterol
- Helps in blood thinning
- Lowers blood pressure
Indian Plantago / Isabgol
- Regulates bowel movement
- Reduces the LDL
- Reduces food intake
- Helps to manage weight
- Helps you to manage blood sugar
- Reduces LDL and Triglyceride levels
- Improves HDL
- Reduces inflammation
- Helps in stabilising blood sugar levels
Coriander & mint
- Rich in chlorophyll
- Helps in digestion
- Supplies fibre
- Helps you in lowering cholesterol
