Healing Foods Event - Spinach

'Healing Foods Event' aims at focusing one food item, every month by highlighting their health benefits and challenging you to come up with recipes in their most 'healthy form'. It was started by Siri and this month I am guest hosting the event with the theme Spinach. No one can disagree that spinach is an important healing food. It is a storehouse of nutrients and can be cooked in several great ways.

"Spinach belongs to the same family as beets and chard. This broad, leafy vegetable is cooling and is jade green in color. It has the slight bitter taste of its sister, beet greens and the slightly salty flavor of chard.

Spinach has always been known for its fine cleansing, building and nourishing properties for the digestive tract, intestines and colon. When properly prepared, spinach is highly beneficial in correcting many common ailments.

Spinach is one of the most nutrient-packed vegetables and its raw juice is an excellent source of chlorophyll. It is also a superb source of vitamins A, B complex, C, E, K, carotenes, folate, manganese, calcium, iron, iodine, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, some trace elements and many valuable amino acids."

Knowing all these benefits lets go ahead and start cooking a bunch of fresh spinach in any form!

Guidelines for the event:

1. Create any dish using Spinach and post the same in your blog. You could use any variety of spinach. Non-Bloggers can send their recipes with the details mentioned below to the same email address.

2. Please link this announcement in your posts. Also link to Siri's blog.Usage of the logo is optional.

3. Multiple entries are more than welcome - more the merrier!

4. Send your details - Name, Recipe URL and Photo (any size, optional) to divyablogs(at)gmail(dot)com before March 31st 2010, midnight.

5. You can send previously blogged entries, provided they are re-posted!

Happy Cooking!

Also do check out the tried and Tasted event going on this month at Dil Se..