Fancy healthy lupins

Barbara Rias-Bucher's new compact guide brings healthy variety to vegetarian cooking with "Lupins" . 46 delicious recipes for breakfast, main courses and sweets as well as snacks and drinks tempt you to enjoy. Tips from the lupin kitchen on products and preparation as well as a short history of lupins round off the nutritional guide.

Sweet lupine has been cultivated since ancient times

While flower lupins decorate many gardens and provide a colorful home for bees and butterflies, sweet lupins with their tasty seeds have been cultivated since ancient times. Botanically, they are legumes, just like beans, peas or chickpeas. The high protein content of lupin seeds is unusual, surpassing other legumes and plant-based foods in general: with a protein content of between 36 and 48 percent, the seeds contain all essential amino acids, including lysine, which is otherwise only found in small quantities in plants.

Lupins - a valuable vegetable protein source

"Lupine seeds are extremely nutrient-dense seeds, and with such nutrient-dense foods as the main component of our diet, we reduce health risks," says the author of numerous cookbooks for wholesome and vegetarian diets. As a plant-based protein source, lupines can play an important role in regulating the acid-base balance. Lupine seeds also contain around 15 percent fiber and considerable amounts of bioactive substances, thus supporting the natural immune system.

Numerous lupin recipes in a compact guide

With a little lupin knowledge and recipes for "snacks, soups, salads", "main courses, bread and rolls" and "desserts and sweet pastries", Barbara Rias-Bucher's guide "Lupins" arouses curiosity about the local protein miracle and its diverse preparation options. These include a Mediterranean lupin salad, zucchini and lupin meatballs and a kiwi cake with lupin flour. Growing lupins also makes sense from an ecological point of view: meat consumption is reduced, livestock farming is reduced, emissions are reduced and a number of diet-related diseases are avoided.

Book tip:
Barbara Rias-Bucher: Lupins - The local protein miracle. Mankau Verlag 2018. Paperback, 126 pages, full color, 11.5 x 16.5 cm, 8.99 euros (D) / 9.20 euros (A), ISBN 978-3-86374-446-5.

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