Immune Toning Coconut Curry

Inflammation? Auto-immunity? Allergies? This is a recipe that supports immune health across its many different potential manifestations.

Chicken broth is superbly nourishing for the gut, which is an absolutely essential foundation for immune health – over 70% of the immune system is located in the gut! We love this recipe for chicken broth.

Turmeric and ginger are superbly anti-inflammatory and help calm inappropriate immune actions. Cumin and coriander are excellent for digestion.

Not only that, but a good curry is so warming, comforting and soul-nourishing.Take-away versions often fall short of that, and can often leave your stomach feeling bloated and upset.

Make your own and enjoy a healing meal!

This recipe originally appeared on Nourishing Therapies. Check out their site here.

Immune Toning Coconut Curry

Course Main Dish

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp coconut oil
• 1 Onion diced
• 2 garlic cloves crushed
• 1 thumb size piece of ginger finely grated
• 1/2 tbsp Ground turmeric
• 1/2 tbsp ground cumin
• 1 tbsp ground coriander
• 1 stalk lemongrass lower third finely chopped (or you can just hit the stalk a few times with the back of a knife to release the essential oil and put it whole in your pot. Just remove it at the end of the cooking .)
• 1 Lime juice and zest
• 6 6 boneless chicken thighs or about 500grams white fish, cut in bite size pieces
• 1 sweet potato peeled, chopped into cubes
• 1 red capsicum thinly sliced
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 can full fat coconut milk or coconut cream
• 1 bunch coriander

Instructions

1. Heat oil in large skillet on medium heat.
2. Add onion and cook until onions are translucent.
3. Add garlic, ginger, turmeric, cumin, coriander, lemongrass, zest and lime juice and chicken and more oil, if needed. Mix to coat onions and chicken and then add sweet potatoes.
4. Add 1 cup of chicken broth and a teaspoon of salt and bring to boil. Let cook until sweet potatoes are soft.
5. Add capsicum and cook for a few minutes.
6. Add coconut milk. Let simmer to mix flavours.
7. Top with fresh coriander and serve with cauliflower rice.

Recipe Notes

* If you do not react well to onions and garlic, omit those and use 1 tsp of garlic oil instead.