Broccoli: Steam it.
Chicken: pan fry it in a touch of oil (your choice but if you use Olive oil use a lower heat so it does not turn rancid) Just cook it enough so it's 85-90% cooked through then transfer to another dish and cover tightly with foil.
Walnut Butter: After you remove the chicken add 4-5 tablespoons of butter to the skillet with about 1/3-1/2 cup chopped walnuts. Cook until brown and the foam stops forming. Then stir in 2 chopped garlic cloves, a few fork fulls of drained capers, and a good squeeze of a quarter of a lemon. Stir for about 30-45 seconds. Stir in parsley flakes/finely chopped parsley and add salt and pepper to taste (but be careful tasting it because it'll be hot as all get out!
Serve: spoon the walnut butter over the chicken and serve with a slice of lemon.
Enjoy!
Clever name, eh? Not really. There is no longer any item on the planet that is truly Paleo because guess what: nature evolves. At any rate, let's go ahead and say that this blog is about CLEAN, non-processed recipes that might sometimes be called Paleo by some people. Enjoy!
Showing posts with label broccoli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broccoli. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Meatballs and "The World's Best Broccoli!"
Meatballs: Free-range, grass fed beef (1lb) mixed with 1-2 Tbs olive oil, 1 large egg, crushed/finely chopped fresh garlic (2 cloves), finely chopped onion (1/4-1/3 cup), Italian seasoning, and freshly chopped oregano. Mix well with hands and roll into 1.5-2 inch (diameter) meatballs. Heat on all sides, until cooked through in a pan with melted butter.
World's Best Broccoli: This is a recipe that was shared with me and so I am sharing it here and I have to say, it is pretty good! Place fresh broccoli florets on a cookie sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, top with crushed/finely chopped garlic cloves (2-4 cloves, we used 3), salt and ground pepper to season. Bake in oven at 400 degrees F for about 15-25 minutes. It's done when the tips of the broccoli appear brownish.
Enjoy!
PS: Leftover meatballs make a great addition to breakfast the next morning! :-)
Monday, August 30, 2010
Honey-Sesame Glazed Salmon and Broccoli
Steam Broccoli. You shouldn't need a recipe for this.
For the salmon: Coat each side in grapeseed oil and season to your liking. I used fresh ground pepper, some seafood seasoning (just a mix of herbs and spices), and some garlic powder. Then grill flesh side down for 4-6 minutes. Then flip. Grill for another 8 minutes, then for the last 2-4 minutes drizzle the top of the flesh with some honey and immediately sprinkle some sesame seeds on there. Quickly close the grill cover. This will help sear the honey into the meat as well as toast the sesame seeds. I'd suggest using a sesame seed dispenser with holes: as you can see I basically ended up with a deluge of seeds on my salmon... it ended up tasting good though. It has a nice sweet touch from the honey, which is intertwined with the savory of the seasoning and the oil. You could also make a sweet honey sauce for this as well by mixing dried mustard (1/4 tsp) with 1 raw egg and 3-4 tbs of oil. Once thick, stir in some old bay seasoning and honey. We did not do that and I don't think it needed it. I think salmon only needs sauce when over cooked and dry.
OK, Enjoy!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Citrus Juniper Chicken with sweet potato and steamed broccoli
The steamed broccoli and sweet potato are easy. For the chicken I marinated the chicken in a concoction of white wine (I used Chardonnay), 1 sliced lemon, 1 sliced lime, ground pepper, 1-2 teaspoons of juniper berries (crushed), and copious amounts of agave nectar. I then poured that whole batch into a hot frying pan and cooked for about 20-30 minutes on medium heat. I flipped each breast three times. I also tossed some uncrushed juniper berries, just a few, in while it was cooking. I served the chicken with some of the sauce spooned over the chicken.
The aromas were amazing and the flavor was great!
Enjoy!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Baked Cod with broccoli soup and root vegetable straws
Baked Cod with Broccoli Soup and Root Vegetable Straws
This recipe was inspired by a trip to IKEA, no seriously. I got to thinking about a cuisine we don't often have: Swedish Food. My wife and I love Sweden, not so much for the food as just it's a gorgeous place, so I figured I would try my hand at it.
I posted the Broccoli Soup recipe previously, so I won't repeat that here. Just know that this soup can be served warm or cold, and the fish could be served either on the side, as we did, or actually in pieces in the soup.
To bake the Cod simply place two large wild caught cod fillets into a glass casserole dish. Season with sea salt, fresh ground pepper, and some seafood seasoning (dried onion, dried garlic, dried lemon peel parsely). Bake at 350F for 35-45 minutes (the fish should flake easy with the push of a fork). Serve with a lemon slice garnish.
Root Vegetable Staws: shred and/or finely slice 1 sweet potato and 3 medium parsnips. Season with garlic powder, fresh ground pepper, and season salt. Spread relatively evenly on a cookie sheet and bake at 350F for about 45 minutes. These can go in the oven at the same time the fish is cooking. Bake longer if you like your straws crispy, like we do. I put my straws in the oven about 7-10 minutes before putting in the fish, then they both come out at the same time and the straws are crispy. Great for dipping in the soup!
Enjoy!
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Salmon Burgers, Broccoli Soup, and Jicama-Sw. Potato Fries
Ok tonight i had to pull out the stops, because my mother-in-law is here and I cooked. I made homemade salmon burgers, with. Some broccoli soup, and a side of jicama and sweet potato fries. here's how to do it.
Start with the soup, because the longer it simmers the better it tastes. In a large pot, brown some chopped garlic and onion (with some seasoning, like pepper and cayenne) in olive oil. Once brown, add chopped broccoli, about 2-3 medium sized broccoli crowns per person you are feeding. Add 2-3 cups of water or vegetable broth. Cook until the broccoli is soft, it can be easily mashed with a fork. Once it can be ashes, remove it form the heat and blend it. Once al the broccoli is blended place back in the original pot, stir very well and add any additional seasoning you might like. Serve topped with some fresh chopped spring onions and pine nuts. I make my topping a little nice by mixing the spring onions and pines nuts in olive oil with fresh ground black pepper.
Now, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Slice one large sweet potato and one jicama into think fries. Lightly coat with olive oil and season to. Your liking. I used garlic powder and pepper. Bake in the oven for about 30-45 minutes, or until crispy on the outside. Turn a few times while cooking. i tend to flip and push mine around about every 120 minutes.
Salmon burgers. Ok this was fun. In. Food processor, or a Magic Bullet (which is what I use) blend 6 ounces of wild caught skinless salmon fillet with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and one free range wild fed egg. Then blend the rest of the salmon by itself (without egg or lemon). I used 1.5 pounds of salmon. Mix all the ground salmon together and make into Patties as you Would a beef burger. I made sure my hands were coated in some flaxseed-olive oil mix so that it would not stick to my hands, or the grill. These go last. They take about 5 minutes on each side (6 ounce salmon burger patties). While that's a cooking toss a few slices of Paleo bread in the toaster to get crispy. Also, this is the time to make the Omega-3 Cajun aioli. It's really easy to make the aioli. Blend 1 egg (preferably free range grass fed) with mustard powder, a squeeze of lemon juice (fresh), and some oil. Once the mixture starts to. Thicken up - and you will need to add a lot of oil and blend for a few minutes to make it whipped in texture, add some cajun seasoning. It's a touch spicy and wonderful on the burgers.
Serve with a smearing of the aioli on the toasted Paleo bread slice. We also spread some extra aioli on top of our burgers, soup in a small. Side bowl, and fries on the side. You can serve the fries with a little mustard, homemade ketchup, or dip in the aioli, if you feel the need. I also sprinkled the fries with some parley flakes.
This was a pretty good dinner, if I say so myself. It rounds out a low-carb, high-protein, high fat meal. But, all the fat is good fat, with the mixture of the flaxseed oil & salmon it ales for a good high Omega-3 meal.
My mother-in-law had a great idea. Instead of serving with soup, which was a bit much food, serve with a nice slaw of some sort. Next time i will make either a cole slaw, broccoli slaw, or maybe even try a slaw with some Jicama or radishes.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Buffalo Sliders on Paleo Bun
Pecan, Grape, & Strawberries over Mixed Greens
This was our starter salad. I dressed mine with fresh squeezed lime juice, walnut oil, fresh ground pepper and some cumin. It was really nice.
Buffalo Sliders on Paleo Bun
I've posted the Paleo Bread recipe a million times now, so take that recipe and simply use a muffin tin instead of a bread pan. This makes a muffin-like bread, that when cut in half serves as a perfect burger bun for a slider.
Buffalo Sliders
Buy (or kill your own) fresh, grass fed, free ranges buffalo meat. Add about 1/4 cup of fresh ground almond flour, 1 egg (preferably free range & Omega-3 enriched), garlic powder, and any other seasoning that you like.
Grill about 2-3 minutes on each side. Seriously, these are so lean that they barely need to stay on the grill at all.
We served our sliders with a side of steamed broccoli.
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