Light & Fresh Veggie Lime and White Beans Traybake

Transitioning between seasons it’s hard. Our body needs to adapt to new temperatures, rhythm, and energies.
This light and fresh recipe is perfect for those spring days when you feel the weather very slightly warming up. It will help you to feel balanced and enter the new season with the right foot.
The beans are perfect to drain any stagnation, the basil to move energy and the lime helps to detox and ease anxiety.

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TCM Benefits

• Clear heat and cool the body

• Balances and moves qi

• Stabilize liver yin and can regulate upbearing liver yang.

• Moisten dryness

• Transform phlegm

• Improves digestion

• Balances body fluids

• Nourishes the stomach and the spleen (contributes to a strong digestive system)

Nutricional Properties and Benefits

• Vitamins: A, B1, B2, B6, C, D, E, K

• Minerals: calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, magnesium, essential amino acids, dietary fiber, purine

• Helps with weigh-control

TCM Flavour: Sweet, Bitter, Sour

Energetics/TCM Thermal Nature: Cooling–neutral

Organ-Meridian: Liver, Stomach, Spleen, Lung

Season: Late Summer, Fall

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Total Time: 30 minutes

Serves: 2

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Meal Type: Mains

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Ingredients:

• 1 small can of white beans

• 1 onion

• 1 big portobello mushroom

• 1 medium courgette 

• 1 teaspoon of Himalayan salt/ sea salt

• a pinch of Black pepper

• 1 tbsp of dried basil

• 1/4 of a lime juice

• 1 tsp of lime zest

• Olive oil

• 1 tbsp of light tamari 

• Coriander 

Directions:

1. Pre-heat the oven at 180ºC.

2. Cut all the veggies in chunks.

3. Drain the beans (wash them with water if necessary) and spread it on the tray, alongside with the veggies.

4. Add the olive oil, the salt, the pepper, the tamari, dried basil, lime juice. Mix everything.

5. Let it roast for 20–25 minutes until tender.

6. Remove the tray from the oven. Taste to check the seasoning and adjust as needed.

7. Add the fresh coriander and lime zest on top.

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Themes and Variations

You can swap the lime for lemon.

Contra Indications

Contra- indicated for people suffering from gout due to high purine concentration in the mushrooms.