Today’s lunch encompassed my favourite mealtime elements: this warm salad is anti-inflammatory, anti-histamine and prebiotic. I’m not devoting as much time as I should to getting the “perfect” shot of my off the cuff rummages through the fridge that are usually the result of either having forgot to go food shopping, or my uber healthy man getting to the veggies before I do! So I hope you’ll bear with me as I work out the kinks in my lunch-time photo shoots.
So here’s the salad breakdown: watercress has been show to have potent anti-histaminic activity, red chicory is both anti-histaminic and a prebiotic, which could help those of use with histamine intolerance or mastocytosis replenish our friendly bacteria supply without raising our histamine levels. Fennel is both a antihistamine and anti-inflammatory. This recipe is also high in Vitamin K which is our key ally in the fight against inflammation.
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The Recipe:
BRAISED RED CHICORY & FENNEL SALAD W/WATERCRESS
180 calories (less if you omit the oil)
Serves 1
10 mins prep
INGREDIENTS:
2 red chicory, cut into quarters
2 fennel bulbs, halved and sliced
1/2 cup watercress
1-2 cloves garlic
argan/almond oil (or your choice – olive works wonderfully)
2 tbsp almonds, lightly crushed
lemon (or lemon thyme), squeeze
PREP:
In a pan, heat a little argan oil. Sauté the garlic till fragrant, add in the chicory and fennel.
Squeeze in a little lemon (or some lemon thyme leaves).
If you have time…
Add in enough home made stock to halfway cover the food.
Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover and let the vegetables finish cooking until tender. I like my veggies a little crunchy, but everyone is different. Once they’re good to go, remove the lid and raise the heat to high to boil away the rest of the liquid. Make sure to toss the veggies quite a bit, till you have a bit of a sauce. Garnish with thyme, watercress and almonds.
You can also serve this salad with warm goat’s cheese.
Non-low histamine modification:
Instead of almonds, warm up 1/2 cup of walnuts under the grill.
Add their choice of cheese.
Serve with the veggies.
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———REFERENCES——–
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151653/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10746164
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661899904747
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15351109
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151653/
