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TFW your food tastes good and does good! Cooking with Thrive® Algae Oil brings goodness to your kitchen and your life with a delicious taste and 90% monounsaturated fats.
1. Grilled Pears With Cinnamon Maple Pecans
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This delectable recipe from Healthy Grocery Girl is so delicious and so simple. It's the perfect little autumnal treat that swaps sugar with natural maple syrup and Thrive® Algae Oil in place of traditional cooking oils. Plus, it looks impressive as heck, and the mixtures of flavors and textures are a sweet symphony in your mouth.
2. Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Salad
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Quinoa is one of those grains that is so versatile, delicious, and filling. Once you try this colorful concoction from The Roasted Root, your eyes will be open to all that quinoa can offer. Root veggies like carrot, squash, parsnips, and sweet potatoes are sautéed in the light Thrive® Algae Oil and mixed in with walnuts and parsley, making this dish one you'll be constantly rooting for.
3. Brussels Sprouts Flatbread
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If you're a big fan of Brussels sprouts, then this flatbread recipe from Kale Me Maybe is an absolute must-try. This flatbread is like a mini vacation in your mouth, calling upon goat cheese and a balsamic vinaigrette as your supporting tour guides. This recipe uses Thrive® Algae Oil, which is a light cooking oil with a high smoke point, making it a great go-to for giving your sprouts a little crisp while still delivering softness to their center.
4. Pumpkin Spice Bread
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If you're all aboard the pumpkin spice train, this recipe from the Minnie Chef will amaze your pumpkin-loving brain. In this recipe, coconut sugar replaces granulated sugar, chia "eggs" are swapped for eggs, almond milk for dairy milk, and Thrive® Algae Oil for traditional oils. It's the perfect dessert for fall and one you'll immediately fall in love with.
5. Cheesy Twice-Baked Potatoes
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Baked potatoes are good. Wonky Wonderful's cheesy twice-baked potatoes are twice as good. These twice-baked potatoes are everything you like about the Thanksgiving classic and then some. Coating the potato skins in Thrive® Algae Oil and baking them twice makes the skins super crispy and sensational.
6. Creamy Curry Butternut Squash Soup With Coconut Milk
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This soup from Daisy Beet serves traditional fall colors and unusual flavors and offers a fresh take on butternut squash soup that will make your stomach sing. Butternut squash, curry powder, and coconut milk combine together for a welcome soup to warm you during winter. Thrive® Algae Oil is used here for its neutral taste so you can focus on all the other amazing flavors.
7. Fudgy Sweet Potato Brownies
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These sweet potato brownies from Simply Taylor don't look healthy, and they certainly don't taste healthy, which is exactly why you should make them! Mashed sweet potatoes are subbed for traditional ingredients like flour, sugar, and baking powder, and Thrive® Algae Oil is swapped in to deliver all those good monounsaturated fatty acids.
8. Cauliflower Rice Unstuffing
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If you love holiday foods but don't love all the carbs, then The Real Food Dietitians' unstuffing recipe is for you. This recipe swaps bread crumbs for cauliflower rice roasted in Thrive® Algae Oil, so it has that stuffing-like crunch without the starch.
9. Spiced Baked Apples, Pears, and Mandarins
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If you're looking to kickstart your New Year's health goals, might we suggest satisfying your sweet-tooth cravings with roasted fruits? Wonky Wonderful's recipe calls on the flavors of scrumptious fruits like apples, pears, and mandarins to tantalize your taste buds. All the ingredients are roasted in one pan with Thrive® Algae Oil so there's little-to-no cleanup, giving you more time to savor the fruity flavors.
10. Roast Pork Loin With Apple Chutney
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In this recipe by Kitchen Confidante, roast pork loin is given a seasonal splash of flavor with a yummy apple chutney on top. The pork is covered in Thrive® Algae Oil (because of its high smoke point) and is first cooked at a high temperature before the temp is brought down for the remainder of the roast so that it retains all those great juices.
11. Hasselback Butternut Squash With Maple Pecan Drizzle
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Merely looking at the photos of this scrumptious recipe Jessica in the Kitchen created is enough to make your mouth water. This dish tastes as great as it looks and taps the high smoke point of Thrive® Algae Oil to roast the squash just right. This dish is versatile and could just as easily pass as a side or a dessert.