Week 2 Ponzu Pasta


Ingredients:
·      Pasta 
·      Sea Salt
·      Black Pepper
·      Chili Ponzu Sauce
·      Dry Chili
·      Olive Oil
·      Broccoli

Steps:
1.    Put pasta and broccoli into different pots and boil them, add salt.
2.    Use a strainer to transfer boiled pasta and broccoli to a hot frypan with hot olive oil and chopped dry chili.
3.    Transfer the pan to a serving plate.
4.    Add Chili Ponzu Sause, add black pepper and sea salt.



Reflection: I made ponzu pasta this week. This is a meal that contains low-calorie ingredients, low-fat sauce, grain, and vegetables. This is one of my favorite recipes during school days when I do not have a lot of time for cooking. This recipe does not fit into the Harvard healthy eating plate because I didn’t include any fruits into my plate. Not because I don’t want to add fruits, but because I didn’t have time for grocery shopping this weekend, so I currently don’t have any fruits in my refrigerator. I will definitely add fruits as healthy dessert plates before or after the meal, and I will add more protein into my plate, such as nuts and chicken breasts.

Three similarities: 1. All the plates include vegetables, grains, protein, and fruits; 2. Vegetable has the biggest portion in every plate; 3. Fruits have a smaller portion compare to others in every plate.
Three differences: 1. Suggested beverages in three plates are different, there are water, dairy, water/unsweetened beverages; 2. Oils and fats are in placed differently in each plate, one does not include the ingredients; 3. My Food As Medicine Plate includes starchy vegetables with grains into a healthy plate.
Things are surprising: protein actually don’t have the biggest portion in a healthy meal, vegetables do.
Things I agree/disagree: I agree with that in order to stay healthy, we should have vegetables, grains, proteins, and fruits in our meal, and we should drink less sweetened beverages. I disagree with limiting milk/dairy in Harvard healthy eating plate. I do think drinking milk/dairy provide us healthy fat and protein.

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