Sweet Sensational Vegetables

Almost everyone craves sweets, I was most definitely one of them, then I went to find a way to tame it.  Rather than depending on processed sugar, add naturally sweet foods to your daily diet to satisfy your sweet tooth. Sweet vegetables soothe the internal organs of the body and energize the mind. And, because many of these vegetables are root vegetables, they are energetically grounding, which helps to balance out the “spiciness” people often feel after eating other kinds of sweet foods. Adding in sweet vegetables helps to crowd out less healthy foods in the diet. A simple way to cook these vegetables is to follow the recipe on page 4 that we call Sweet Sensation. It has few ingredients and preparation time is minimal.

There are few kind of sweet vegetables that you could try.
Sweet when cooked

• Corn
• Carrots
• Onions
• Beets
• Winter squashes
• Sweet potatoes
• Yams Sweet vegetables

 
Subtly Sweet

• Turnips
• Parsnips
• Rutabagas Semi-sweet vegetables

 
Don’t taste sweet, but have a similar effect on the body in that they maintain blood sugar levels, reduce sweet cravings, and break down animal foods in the body

• Red radishes
• Daikon
• Green cabbage
• Burdock Other vegetables

 
This is a simple recipe to cook your sweet vegetables.  Directions :

1. Chop the hard vegetables, like carrots and beets, into smaller pieces.
2. Cut softer vegetables, like onions and cabbage, into larger chunks.
3. Use a medium-sized pot and add enough water to barely cover the vegetables. You may want to check the water level while cooking, and add more water if needed. Remember, vegetables on the bottom will get cooked more than the ones on the top. Cook until desired softness. The softer the vegetables get, the sweeter they become.
4. Add any of the following ingredients: spices, salt, and/or seaweed. You may also add tofu or beans for extra protein.
5. When the vegetables are cooked to your satisfaction, empty the ingredients into a large bowl, flavour as desired, and eat. The leftover cooking water makes a delicious, sweet sauce, and is a healing, soothing tonic to drink by itself.

 
Other cooking methods include steaming, roasting, and stir-frying. You can also try simmering and puréeing vegetables to create a soup or you can simply eat them raw, grated in a salad.