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Aren’t curries are great. Not only are they bursting with flavour, but in order to achieve that deliciously complex and exotic flavour, therein contains a plethora of health promoting ingredients.

Why not tantalise your taste-buds and give your immune system a high five by cooking my delicious Goan chicken curry tonight!

Goan Chicken Curry

Health Promoting Ingredients

• Garlic- Strengthens the immune system, used to fight coughs and conjestions.
• Turmeric-Anti oxidant, anti- inflamatory
• Ginger- Eliviates throat and sinus infections
• South Indian garam masala

Garam Masala contains:

• black and white peppercorns– Reduces nasal and sinus problems.
• cloves– Anti fungal and anti bacterial.
• cinnamon– Coughing and sore throats
• black and white cumin seeds– http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cumin/ Anti inflammatory and great for digestion.
• black, brown, and green cardamom pods Antioxidant and disease promoting.

Paleo Chicken Curry

RECIPE

Ingredients

For the Curry

• 6 boneless chicken thighs
• 3 cloves of garlic (chopped)
• 1 dessert spoon of garam masala
• 1 dessert spoon of turmeric
• 1 red chilli
• 1/2 bar of organic creamed coconut
• 1/2 pint of water
• 1/2 carton of organic chopped tomoatoes
• 1 Aubergine (diced)
• 1 Courgette (diced)
• 1 Spanish Onion (chopped)
• Coconut oil
• Thumb of ginger (chopped)
• Juice of a lemon and lime

Cauliflower Rice

For the Cauliflower Rice

• 1  large cauliflower
• 3 spring onions
• 1 handful of chopped coriander
• Knob of grass-fed butter

Method

1. Chop the chicken thighs into small pieces and marinate overnight, or anything up to 8 hours for optimum flavour. Don’t worry if you don’t have time to marinate…. It will still taste great if you add the spices and chicken at step 2.
2. In a pan, add a teaspoon of coconut oil and heat. Add the Spanish onion and fry, add ginger and garlic, and sweat off for around 5-7 minutes.
3. Add chicken and spices and continue to fry for 5 minutes.
4. Add the creamed coconut and tomatoes.
5. Add half of the chilis (and some extra chili flakes if you like it spicy!)
6. Add the courgettes and the aubergines.
7. Simmer and add water if more liquid is necessary.
8. Allow the dish to simmer for around 30 minutes.
9. Add the juice of lemon and lime.
10. While the dish is simmering, take the cauliflower, and in a mini blender chop the cauliflower. Then in a separate pan, melt the butter and fry the chopped spring onions. Add the cauliflower, mix, stir whiles cooking for around 5 minutes.
11. When ready to serve, throw half of the coriander into the cauliflower, and use the remainder to garnish your curry. Garnish with fresh lime and red chili.

Serve and enjoy

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Paleo Polly

Great tasting food has always been my passion. Obsessed with cookbooks from a young ages I have enjoyed exploring the world of food, recipe by recipe. 2004, aged 20, I was reading Law at University; money was tight, and meals were often made up of vegetables and starchy carbohydrates, washed down with ample alcoholic beverages of choice. Always made from scratch, taste championed calorie content; many delicious creamy pastas and carb-loaded rice and pitta dishes were consumed.Being in my early twenties, I was quite capable of getting away with my not exactly nutritious diet, however following Law School I noticed that I’d put on a few pounds. Being a food lover, I became extremely interested in the power of food; its nutritional value, its healing, health benefits. I read pages and pages of nutritional information; I followed fitness blogs, and read health cookbooks. I then made the decision to turn paleo; I really tightened up my diet and saw amazing result. Most importantly however, eating the right food made me feel great. For the first time, I did not feel bloated, I felt energized, health issues cleared up. My skin was the best ever, I slept well at night. The Paleo Diet involves eating mainly vegetables and protein, with small amounts of fruit, nuts and seeds. Eating Paleo is in essence eating the foods your body was designed to eat. The Paleo Diet mimics the diet that our hunter-gather ancestors ate; pre-agricultural revolution. My love of paleo, has brought me to my new found hobby; CrossFit and a combination of exercise and diet are an unbeatable solution. Paleo Polly is a blog dedicated to my journey. Although I am not a qualified nutritionist, my personal journey has enabled me to make great changes to my life and to my well-being. I would like to share my journey, and my life experiences and guide and assist anyone wanting to make a positive change.