Anthony Constantinou | Anthony Constantinou CEO CWM FX says, Athletes requires high amount of protein, fat, low glycemic carbohydrates constituents in its daily meal that should also be supercharged with spices and plant sterols. Now let’s discuss about essential vegan meals and list of ingredients to use for making recipes:
1.) Lentil and Veggie Mix
This recipe requires 1 cup of spinach, 1/4 cup of fresh basil, 1 cup of carrots, 1 tomato,2 cups of cauliflower,2 cups of lentils and added spices include 1/4 teaspoon garlic, turmeric, oregano, and fennel seeds. After putting all the ingredients in your meal add two tablespoon of hempseeds. The hempseeds and lentils provide essential protein to the body.
2.) Black Beans and Pistachios
Recipes of black beans and pistachios needs, 1 cup of fresh basil leaves, 1 cup of red bell peppers, 1 cup of yellow bell peppers, 1 cup of broccoli, 2 cups of black beans with 1/4 teaspoon of cumin, oregano, and ginger. The pistachios and black beans are rich source of nutrients which gives essential nutritional sources and helpful to gain immediate energy from it.
3.) Quinoa and Hempseeds
Quinoa and Hempseeds recipes are easy to prepare, put one cup of quinoa, two tablespoons of hempseeds and two cups of water in a rice cooker. Wait for at least twenty minutes for proper cooking, to enhance its flavor add one teaspoon of turmeric, basil, and oregano. These vegan snacks covers all the essential nutrients, very easy to digest and provides high energy in quick time.
4.) Blueberry Vanilla Pumpkin Pie shakes:
Power shakes good source for immediate energy requirements for athletes. Preparing various shakes consider less time as compare to other recipes. One scoop of vanilla pea protein,
one scoop of sun warrior vanilla protein powder, one tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice, low sugar almond milk, two cups of blueberries and one scoop of mineral powder, shake in a blender for 30 seconds and it would be ready for you to drink.
5.) Vanilla Almond Protein Bar: Homemade protein bars are a great healthy source of energy and you can add various other nutritional sources to increase its power capability. Two scoops of vanilla rice, two tablespoons of almond butter, two tablespoons of ground flaxseed and ¼ cup of water.Put all ingredients in one bowl and blend them until you got consistent thick paste. Make a bar shaped pieces from paste and wrap each bar in tin foil, leave these bar in refrigerator for one- night. The next day you will found delicious bars ready to eat at the time of breakfast. Try to maintain well-balanced diets which consist of high amounts of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
