This side dish screams “Healthy Heart” and for so many reasons!
What we eat plays a very significant role ensuring we have a healthy heart, to help prevent and reduce your risk of heart disease you want to ensure you are choosing the right foods.
This dish incorporates many ingredients that will help reduce blood pressure and cholesterol as well as help with inflammation, all conditions that can pose and create risks for heart disease.
Garlic is a favourite ingredient to add flavour to a dish it also has many therapeutic effects, including helping to reduce blood pressure.
Walnuts are a fantastic source of fiber as well as vitamins and minerals. Research shows that a diet containing walnuts can help protect against heart disease by lowering bad cholesterol and blood pressure, plus decreasing the effects of oxidative stress such as inflammation.
Almonds are also a nutrient dense nut and along with olive oil is a great source of healthy monounsaturated fatty acids that are fantastic for heart health.
As you can see, this dish is full of amazing health benefits with it also being super simple to make…. Not to mention YUM!
