It’s time for a fun, cholesterol-free recipe that will satisfy your cravings for a flavorful, savory dish. Impress your family and friends with easy and delicious egg-free Sweet Potato Latkes. The sweet potatoes add great flavor and make a colorful spin on traditional latkes. Here’s a bonus: adding flax seeds to your diet provides the much needed Omega 3 fatty acids.
Ingredients:
2 large sweet potatoes (yams)
1 large sweet onion
1 tsp. baking powder
3 Tbs. flour
1/3 cup whole flax seeds + 1 cup warm water
salt & pepper (to taste - approx. 1/2 tsp. salt)
Directions:
- Grate the sweet potatoes and onion into a bowl.
- Prepare a flax mixture in a food processor or blender; grind the flax seeds until they are a fine flax meal; slowly add water until the mixture has a thick milk shake-like consistency. Note: this makes an excellent egg replacement!
- Add baking powder, flour, flax mixture, salt & pepper to sweet potatoes and mix well.
- Cover a pan with a thin layer of oil.
- Form cookie size pancakes, fry them up and serve with apple sauce.
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Flax seed supplements were found to significantly reduce cancer growth, according to study reported at an American Society of Clinical Oncology conference. Researchers examined 161 men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Also investigating the role of a low-fat diet (with fat contributing less than 20% of the total energy), the researchers divided the men into 4 groups: placebo control, flax seeds, low-fat diet, and the combination of low-fat diet with flax seeds.
Results indicated that the cancer cells were growing at a significantly slower rate (roughly 30% to 40% slower) in the 2 groups taking flax seed supplements than in the group on placebo or on the low-fat diet alone. The dose was 30 grams a day, which is about 3 round tablespoons, and the flax seeds were ground and mixed with food and drink. One researcher commented "on its own it has a mild nutty taste."
Flax seeds are one of the richest sources of lignan, which has several roles in fighting cancer. Lignan affects metabolism, has antioxidant activity, and is a rich source of omega-3 fatty acids.
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