'Healthy Living for Summer': Cooking with fresh, seasonal ingredients
How to cook healthy meals with fresh ingredients and seasonal items.
— -- Fresh produce, organic ingredients, and seasonal fruits and vegetables are all elements that contribute to a nutritious meal. For the first episode of ABC News' "Healthy Living for Summer" series, we spent an afternoon cooking with Chef Yasmina Ksikes.
Ksikes, 41, is a chef with Cozymeal in Los Angeles, and has been cooking since she was 6 years old. Ksikes grew up in Morocco and said her favorite place to spend time as a child was in the kitchen.
"We went to the market almost every day before school," Ksikes said. "We'd shop for everything seasonal, that's the only way we ate growing up."
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Quick tips
Ksikes cooked two dishes with us, Moroccan beet salad and saffron salmon over couscous and vegetables.
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Watch ABC News cook a healthy summer meal in the video above.
This weekly health series will continue throughout the summer.