Dec. 08 2011

Variety and Soup

Coconut Fish and Kale Stew

Vari­ety is the spice of life, right?

We are try­ing to add more vari­ety in our diets. There is a whole world of meats that we can eat and we barely scratch the surface.

I’m learn­ing that the key to this Paleo life is to step out of the com­fort zone. It’s not easy! The thought of eat­ing liver is enough to send run­ning and scream­ing to the near­est veg­e­tar­ian sup­port group. The sight of fish heads brings hor­ri­ble mem­o­ries from child­hood and eat­ing any­thing that is fer­mented is not on my bucket list. But truth be told, and I credit this with actu­ally enjoy­ing food since remov­ing all grains, gluten, etc. I actu­ally enjoy food now and want to try every­thing. In fact, since Sep­tem­ber I have come to like cab­bage (at least raw cab­bage), zuc­chini, and wait for it red meat! These are all things that I would never eat before but of which I am now a fan.

So in my quest for vari­ety, I decided to make a Coconut Fish Stew with Kale. It looks good doesn’t it? Well, the pic­ture isn’t very good but it tastes so good. I need to stop tak­ing pic­tures with my phone.

Coconut Fish and Kale Soup

Prep Time: 10 min­utes

Cook Time: 30 min­utes

Total Time: 40 min­utes

Serv­ing Size: 6

Ingre­di­ents

  • 3 Large Cod Filets cut into bite-sized cubes
  • 1 can of coconut milk (or 1.5 cups of home­made coconut milk, or 1 cup of Heavy Cream)
  • 3 tbs Coconut Oil
  • 1 cup of fine coconut flakes (I put coconut in a food proces­sor and pulsed until fine)
  • 1 small red onion (optional but I liked the flavor)
  • 1 bunch of green onions
  • 1/2 green pepper
  • 1/2 tomato
  • 2 bulbs of garlic
  • 1 palm of sea salt
  • 1 palm of dry cilantro
  • 1 palm of dry oregano
  • 1 palm of ground pepper
  • 1 palm to 2 palms of Old Bay
  • 1 cup of Fish Bone Broth to cover (you can also use chicken stock)
  • 2 cups of kale washed and torn into bit-sized pieces.

Instruc­tions

  1. Heat a large ceramic soup pot and had coconut oil.
  2. Sauté onions until brown.
  3. Add pep­pers, and tomato.
  4. Add dry herbs start­ing with the salt and end­ing with the Old Bay.
  5. Add fish and stir slightly to coat with seasoning.
  6. Let cook for about 2 min­utes and then remove (yep, scoop them out)
  7. Add broth scrap­ing the bot­tom of the pan to get all the sauteed good­ness. Bring to a boil.
  8. Add coconut milk and coconut flakes. Stir and bring to an almost boil.
  9. Add fish and cook for 5 minutes.
  10. Turn pot off and add kale. Cover again and let kale soften.
  11. Enjoy!
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