Ingredients:
1 qt. Chicken stock, monemade preferable
1/4 t. or to taste chile pepper flakes
1 t. or to taste ginger, freshly grated (or glenga, if you have access to a thai grocery)
1 can coconut milk, canned
Juice of one lemon or lime
unrefined sea salt to taste
Optional garnishes: cilantro, scallions, garlic chives, thai basil, chocolate mint
Method:
Boil the chicken stock, skim off any foam, and add the coconut milk, chili flakes, ginger, and lemon juice. Simmer for 15 minutes, salt to taste and sprinkle with garnishes. You may want to add pieces of cut up cooked chicken. from Nina Planck's website: http://www.ninaplanck.com/
About Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is highly saturated.
Isn't that unhealthy? One of the few vegetable oils that is highly
saturated, coconut oil has been falsely accused of raising blood
cholesterol and therefore increasing the risk of atherosclerosis and
heart disease. The opposite is true. Coconut oil does not raise blood
cholesterol. Coconut fat is extremely healthful, and in tropical
countries where unrefined coconut oil is eaten liberally, arterial
plaques and heart disease are rare. Coconut milk is rich in lauric
acid, the same highly beneficial fatty acid in breast milk, which gives
babies strong immunity. Lauric acid is a powerful anti-bacterial,
anti-viral, and anti-microbial agent. Coconut oil aids digestion and
metabolism, supports the immune system, and protects and heals the
skin. Because it is stable at high temperatures and does not oxidize
when exposed to heat and light like polyunsaturated vegetable oils
coconut oil is also an excellent cooking fat.
Unrefined sea salt
has a natural gray or pale pink color. Unlike refined salt, it contains
all the natural trace elements and minerals found in the sea. Unrefined
sea salt consists of just 84% sodium chloride. The other 16% is
magnesium, calcium, potassium, iodine, and several dozen other minerals
and trace elements which are essential to every function in the body,
from digestion to adrenal function to blood pressure. All these
beneficial elements are stripped from refined salt even many sea salts
which is 100% sodium chloride.
Chicken broth (with little golden
droplets of chicken fat) is known as the Jewish penicillin for its
ability to fight infections. Poultry fat is a blend of saturated,
monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fats. They are all good for you.
All bone broths (including beef, fish, and veal) contain large amounts
of calcium and other minerals in a form easy to assimilate. Broth also
aids digestion.
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