April 11, 2008
Eat Healthy! Issue #024 11 April 2008
The regular newsletter from Healthy Eating Made Easy, sent to confirmed subscribers only.
Healthy Eating Guidelines
This handy page of Healthy Eating Guidelines is packed with tips on switching to healthy eating, cooking healthily and shopping wisely.
Food Colour Ban
Which food colours does the UK Food Standards Agency want manufacturers to remove from cakes, sweets and other goodies - because these additives may cause hyperactivity in some children? Find out which ones you should be avoiding: Food Colours and Hyperactivity.
Thai Red Curry with Fish
Delicious! That was the verdict when I cooked up this fragrant, coconutty curry for friends this week. It's a light, easy recipe and very tasty. If you're cooking for kids, be careful how much red curry paste you add, as it's quite hot.
Ingredients
a little oil
1 onion, peeled and chopped
2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1-2 tbsp Thai red curry paste
350ml (1.5 cups) vegetable or fish stock
125ml (2/3rds cup) coconut milk (use canned milk, or grate 75g (3 oz) cream of coconut into 125ml boiling water and stir to dissolve)
1 medium sweet potato, peeled and diced
1 handful fine green beans, topped and tailed and halved
12 cherry tomatoes
2-3 slices salmon fillet, or firm white fish such as hoki, or fish pie mix - skinned and cut into chunks
juice of 1 lime
1 tbsp Thai fish sauce
medium bunch fresh coriander, washed and chopped
Serves 4
- Soften the onion in the oil for a couple of minutes, then add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the curry paste, stir well to mix and cook for 1 minute.
- Pour in the stock, coconut milk and sweet potato. Bring to simmering, and cook gently for about 15 minutes until the potato is nearly cooked.
- Stir in the beans, tomatoes and fish and cook for 5-8 minutes until the fish is opaque.
- Stir through the lime juice and fish sauce. Serve on plain boiled rice and finish with a generous scattering of chopped coriander.
Do you have comments, suggestions, recipes to share? I'd love to hear them, so do get in touch.
Happy Healthy Eating!