Registered dietitian, Kristen Carli, MS, RD is back to share with us recipes highlighting pistachios and pomegranate juice for National Nutrition Month. For more information visit www.wonderfulpistachios.com and www.pomwonderful.com
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00:00 - The following portion of the Arizona Daily Mix
00:04 is sponsored on behalf of The Wonderful Company
00:07 by Camelback Nutrition and Wellness.
00:09 - March is National Nutrition Month,
00:13 and who better to make sure we are having a wonderful time
00:16 being healthy than registered dietitian, Kristen Carley,
00:19 and The Wonderful Company,
00:21 because they have some wonderful things that I love to eat.
00:24 - Absolutely. - But we are making
00:25 a little combining of pistachios and pomegranate.
00:28 - Yes, we are. - So, I love it.
00:30 - Thank you so much for having me.
00:31 I'm excited to partner with The Wonderful Company
00:33 with this segment.
00:34 We've got a lot to talk about.
00:36 March is National Nutrition Month.
00:38 - Yes. - And we're gonna have
00:39 pistachios and pomegranate juice
00:40 help support our nutrition goals.
00:42 - I love it.
00:43 Okay, so let's start down here, of course,
00:44 with the pistachios. - Yes.
00:45 So we got some lovely pistachios.
00:47 Pistachios are great because they actually have
00:49 a trio of nutrients.
00:51 They've got the healthy, unsaturated fats, fiber,
00:54 and they also are a complete plant-based protein,
00:57 which is a little unheard of when you think
00:59 of plant-based protein to be complete.
01:01 And what that means is they contain
01:03 all of the essential amino acids.
01:05 - Ooh, I like that.
01:06 And you can do so much with them, which is really neat.
01:08 And even what I love is that you have the shelled ones
01:11 and then the unshelled. - Yes, exactly.
01:12 - I will say the unshelled are dangerous in my house.
01:16 I'm just gonna let you know right now.
01:17 - I love that they come in the no-shell variety
01:20 because they just make it easy to throw into things.
01:23 We've made this lemony beet hummus
01:26 that actually uses some of these lightly salted,
01:29 no-shell pistachios blended into the hummus.
01:33 So it contributes to that creamy texture
01:35 and the beets contribute to that really beautiful color.
01:38 - And when I thought, when I saw this at first,
01:41 Alexi was saying, "Oh, she must've made it with pomegranate."
01:43 But no, that's actually beets.
01:44 - Right, also.
01:45 - Could you put a little pomegranate in there?
01:46 - You totally could if you wanted, yeah.
01:48 Contributing to that color, I love that.
01:50 - I like it, okay.
01:50 All right, let's get down to salads
01:52 'cause this is very important where you can get
01:53 all the nutritions in just one salad.
01:56 - Absolutely, so we've got a kale salad here.
01:58 I'm gonna put you to work and have you assemble our salad.
02:02 We've got some white beans.
02:03 - So start with the white beans?
02:04 - Mm-hmm.
02:05 - I know, I've been seeing these a lot.
02:06 Are these better than black beans?
02:07 - You know, beans have much of the same nutrition,
02:10 but I love the white beans in this, they're extra creamy.
02:13 Go ahead and add some of those
02:14 lightly salted, no-shell pistachios.
02:17 - And is that about enough to put in there?
02:18 - Yep, that's about a quarter cup.
02:19 I like the pistachios for that crunch.
02:21 I'm always looking for a crunch factor in my salads.
02:24 I'm gonna have you use some of those hemp seeds there as well.
02:27 - How much do we--
02:28 - Pour 'em all in, yeah.
02:29 - Oh, pour 'em all in?
02:30 - A quarter cup, yep.
02:30 - All right.
02:31 - Those are great.
02:32 And then go ahead and use your spoon
02:34 and scoop out the avocado there.
02:36 - Okay.
02:37 - And pour that right in.
02:38 - Okay, this is so important,
02:39 scooping out an avocado the right way.
02:40 - Yeah, there you go.
02:41 I like to dice it right in the actual avocado rind
02:46 so that it comes out like that.
02:46 - Can you put both of 'em in there?
02:48 - You can put both of 'em in there.
02:50 So this salad is great because it combines
02:53 both the pistachios and the pomegranate.
02:55 So I actually made a pomegranate juice dressing
02:59 that is really, really good.
03:01 So we've got a little bit of honey in here,
03:02 some olive oil, some pomegranate juice, some Dijon.
03:06 - Do I mix this all up a little bit before?
03:07 - Yeah, you can mix this up.
03:07 - Or do you wanna put the dressing in?
03:09 - Doesn't matter.
03:10 - Okay, all right, and then you said the dressing, so.
03:12 - Yeah, so the dressing has this pomegranate juice.
03:14 I'm gonna shake it up a little bit.
03:16 The pomegranate juice is awesome
03:18 because it's filled with antioxidants
03:20 and these are the things that fight free radicals
03:23 in the body.
03:24 So free radicals are kind of,
03:25 they cause body damage over time.
03:27 So we want to constantly be eating antioxidants
03:30 in order to prevent that and fight that.
03:33 In 700 milligrams of, in eight ounces of a pomegranate juice
03:37 you actually have 700 milligrams of polyphenol antioxidants.
03:41 - Look at my salad, I'm already at lunch.
03:43 I'm all set to go.
03:44 - Yes!
03:45 - Okay, now we want a little dessert,
03:47 but we wanna make sure we're doing a little healthy
03:50 for us, so what do you got there for us?
03:51 - So we have some sugar cookies.
03:53 These have a pomegranate juice icing.
03:57 So what's really unique about this is you can,
03:59 I've never made an icing before with pomegranate juice,
04:02 but it contributes to that beautiful color
04:04 and you're healthifying your cookies, right?
04:06 Still getting some antioxidants in your cookies as well.
04:09 - So, oh my gosh, this is so great.
04:11 And then of course you can drink this,
04:12 just a little glass, or how much should you have of this?
04:14 - Yeah, so pomegranate juice is just rich
04:16 in those antioxidants, like I said.
04:18 So in eight ounces, you have 700 milligrams
04:20 of the polyphenol antioxidants.
04:22 This is 48 ounces.
04:24 So you're getting a lot of nutrition.
04:25 You can use this however you'd like,
04:27 maybe in a mocktail, in a cocktail.
04:29 - In a cocktail, can we?
04:31 I might be taking that and giving it a little try there.
04:33 You know, we have this drink we gotta make
04:34 called the Phoenix, so I don't know if we still
04:36 have time for it, but this is great.
04:38 So I love that we have all these little snack things
04:40 that you need to have, especially as we start
04:42 to get for spring break and stuff,
04:43 looking for things around the house
04:44 for the kids to nibble on.
04:45 And so again, the pistachios, either with the shells.
04:49 And the shells are pretty good.
04:50 People like that because it keeps them busy, kind of.
04:52 - Keeps them busy.
04:53 Pistachios are also one of the lowest fat
04:55 and lowest calorie nuts, so if you are watching
04:58 your fat and calorie intake, pistachios
05:00 are a great way to do it.
05:01 When it comes back to pomegranate juice,
05:03 I like Palm Wonderful because they're whole-pressed.
05:06 They actually press the entire pomegranate,
05:08 so you get the antioxidants out of the rind,
05:11 the pith, and those arils inside.
05:14 - I like it, there it is.
05:15 All right, any other quick, we got really quick,
05:17 I know we're wrapping up.
05:18 Any other quick tips you have for us
05:19 for this Nutrition Month?
05:20 - Just enjoy your Nutrition Month.
05:22 Try to focus on adding instead of restricting.
05:25 I like to focus on addition.
05:26 - There it is, and of course, you want more information
05:28 about Kristen Carley and what we talked about,
05:30 you can head over to azdailymix.com.
05:34 So thank you.
05:34 - Thank you.
05:35 - The preceding portion of the Arizona Daily Mix
05:39 was sponsored on behalf of The Wonderful Company
05:41 by Camelback Nutrition and Wellness.
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