The 8 Best Blue Zones Recipes | 8 Easy Plant-Based Recipes for weeknight dinners - What's in the fridge?
The Blue Zones are places where people live 90 to 100 years, and are free of disease.So the recipes from there are valuable. They give us an insight into what people eat there. What they eat is only part of the story. Their way of life is a big key, too.Living a long, healthy life sounded good to me. So, for a full year I cooked a Blue Zone recipe each week. I found which ones were tasty and easy to make. And found others that just didn’t work out (cornmeal pancakes ????) or were not enjoyable. After all that research I want to share my favorite Blue Zones recipes so you don’t have to go through the same disappointments I did. The recipes I choose are easy to prepare, plant-based and delicious.These recipes are adaptations from the bluezones.com website or Blue Zones Cookbook. See my version of the recipes by clicking on the links below. Enjoy!1. Five-Ingredient Okinawan BowlThis recipe is made with buckwheat soba noodles. I hadn’t really worked with soba noodles before, but they are amaz...