ANTI-INFLAMMATORY CHICKEN KEBABS WITH CAULIFLOWER RICE
This dish is one of my kid’s favourite meals. It’s incredibly simple to prepare, packs a massive nutritional punch and is off-the-scales delicious.
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
Passive Time: 1 hour hour
Total Time: 1 hour hour 35 minutes minutes
Servings: 2 PERSONS
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 breast chicken
- 1 thumb grated ginger
- 2 fingers fresh turmeric
- 1 tbsp coconut aminos
- 2 lemons juiced
- 1 head cauliflower
- 2 tbsp pomegranate seeds
- 1 handful coriander leaves
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp freshly ground pepper
Make a marinade by placing the ginger, turmeric (if using ground turmeric instead of fresh then use 1 tsp), 1 tbsp of olive oil, and the juice of one lemon as well as the coconut aminos (you can use soya sauce instead) in a bowl and mix together
Cut the chicken breasts into chunks and place in the marinade and give them a good stir so that all the chunks are coated with the marinade. Set aside for one hour.
Place the cauliflower florets in a food processor and pulse a few times so that you have a rice like consistency.
Warm half the olive oil in a pan and add the cauliflower florets and heat through for a few minutes. You may need to add some water/stock to loosen it - no more than a couple of tbsp. Set aside to take down to room temperature.
Mix the room temperature cauliflower rice with the pomegranate and chopped coriander, and stir in the juice of one lemon. Season with salt and pepper and set aside
string the marinated chicken pieces through skewers and cook on a barbeque grill or in an oven grill for about 20 minutes turning half way to ensure even cooking.
Serve with the Cauliflower rice. YUM!
THE SCIENCE BIT
TURMERIC is one of those wonder foods with a vast array of health benefits. It is highly anti-inflammatory and has tremendous mood boosting properties. It helps promote the production of glutathione, one of the body’s most significant antioxidants, and has significant blood sugar balancing properties. A study in 2009, published in Biochemistry and Biophysical Research Communications showed that curcumin in turmeric was 400 times more potent than Metformin – a drug widely used to manage diabetes. GINGER has broad-spectrum antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidant, and anti-parasitic properties, to name just several of its more than 40 pharmacological actions. It is anti-inflammatory, making it valuable for pain relief for joint pain, menstrual pain, headaches, and shows promise for fighting cancer, diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, asthma, bacterial and fungal infections. CAULIFLOWER is loaded with sulforaphane, which has been shown to improve mood and communication skills and is packed with antioxidants including; vitamin C, beta-carotene, kaempferol, quercetin (antihistamine), rutin, and much more. CHICKEN is packed with protein and the amino acid tryptophan making it a natural stress buster. It is a wonderful source of phosphorus to help support bones and teeth as well as selenium to help protect against free radical damage.