Dips to Increase Vegetable Intake

If you are struggling to eat more greens and want to increase your vegetable intake, I highly recommend you try some new sauces and dips-they may just change everything!!!

One of my most favorite sauces is Chimichurri and I will pour it over EVERYTHING!  I usually will make it for a flat iron steak meal that we eat but I always make sure to make extra as it’s delicious over scrambled eggs in the morning, on roasted potatoes, or anything else you can think of.  Piri-piri is another sauce I love and will pour over rice and beans or any other rice bowl I make.  

Dips are a great option to help use for dipping your vegetables in, can be poured over rice, meats, potatoes, and even scrambled eggs in the morning.

Definitely give these dips a try to increase your vegetable intake and let me know what you think.  These are two of my favorites that I make often, but I try to make different dips each week to help increase the variety of vegetables and types of fat into my diet while providing my children fun options as well.

Chimchurri

-1 cup parsley
-3/4 cup olive oil
-3 tbsp red wine vinegar
-2 tbsp oregano
-1 clove garlic
-1 tsp crushed red pepper
-1 tsp salt

Mix all ingredients together in a food processor and store in a jar in the refrigerator.

Piri Piri

1/2 lemon, squeezed
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1/2 jalapeno
2 small red or orange sweet peppers
2 garlic cloves
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp salt

Add all of these ingredients into a blender and store in the refrigerator.

This recipe was adapted from the cookbook Skinnytaste Fast and Slow to accommodate my families palate.

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