Category: Kidneys

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Champion Chicken with Goji Berries

A hearty healing dish that strengthens weakness due to Illness or Surgery. I recommend that the ingredients below should be fresh and organic is possible. “When you buy products from organic farmers your purchase is like a donation to a healthier world!”.

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 3 cloves Garlic, peeled and minced
  • 1 (2cm) piece Fresh Ginger, peeled and minced
  • 1 roasting Chicken, skinned and cut up OR 2Kilos skinless legs and/or breasts
  • 2 medium sized Green Onions, chopped into (1.5 CM) pieces, roots and tough tips discarded
  • 3-4 tbsp Rice Wine or Dry Sherry
  • 2 tbsp Soy Sauce
  • 2 tbsp Goji Berries
  • 350ml Water or Vegetable Stock
  • 1 tsp Dark Sesame Oil

Directions:

  1. Heat oil in a pan and then add garlic and ginger and cook until garlic is golden (approx. 5 mins)
  2. Place chicken, garlic, ginger, green onions, wine, soy sauce, goji berries and water in a pot
  3. Bring mixture to a boil and cover and lower the heat to a simmer. Cook for about 30
  4. minutes or until the chicken is cooked through
  5. Sprinkle the sesame oil on top as a finishing touch
  6. Serve in a bowl with some of the broth or on top of rice with the broth as gravy

Actions/Indications/Functions. This dish Warms the Stomach, while Tonifies Qi. It Nourishes Blood. A wonderfully nourishing dish that Strengthens Liver and Kidneys

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Steak and Kidney Pie for Life

According to the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the Kidney is the treasure chest of Essence, the vital substance that gave us our first breath and will allow us our last breath after a quality life.

Kidney is one of those powerful foods that is recommended by TCM to nourish the body at a deep level. A delicious steak and kidney pie recipe using puff pastry.

Both steak and kidneys are rich in protein and iron and therefore excellent for sufferers of anaemia, who lack these elements in their body. Aside from that, steak and kidney pie is a delightful dish that should be enjoyed throughout the whole year.

Ingredients

  • 340g (12oz) of shortcrust pastry
  • For the filling
  • 900g (2lb) of rump steak, diced and removed of fat
  • 450g (1lb) of ox kidney, diced
  • 300ml (½ pint) of beef stock
  • 300ml (½ pint) of red wine
  • 225g (8oz) of chestnut or Portobello mushrooms, sliced
  • 85g (3oz) of butter
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 2 tbsp of flour
  • 2 bay leaves
  • thyme
  • rosemary and parsley
  • salt and black pepper
  • To glaze
  • 1 beaten egg

Method

  • Heat ¾ of the butter in a frying pan and gently fry the onion.
  • Coat the steak and the kidney in the flour seasoned with salt and pepper.
  • Remove the onion and set aside and add the meat to the frying pan.
  • You may have to cook the meat in batches. Fry until browned on all sides and transfer to a large casserole dish as you go.
  • When you have finished browning the meat, pour the stock and the wine into the frying pan and bring to the boil. Ensure that all the crusty bits from the side of the pan are included in this mixture.
  • Pour into the casserole dish over the meat.
  • Heat the remainder of the butter in the frying pan and add the mushrooms. Fry gently and then add to the meat and stock together with the bouquet of herbs.
  • Cover the casserole dish with a lid and cook in a preheated oven set at 150°C (300°F) for approximately 2 hours.
  • Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
  • When the filling mixture has cooled, transfer to a pie dish.
  • Roll out the pastry so that it covers the pie dish and add 1 inch (2.5cm).
  • Dampen the edge of the pie dish with water and cut the 1-inch of pastry from the larger piece. Arrange the pastry strip to the edge of the pie dish and gently press down.
  • Arrange the pastry lid on top and press down the edges of the pastry lid onto the edging.
  • Make a small hole in the top of the pastry so that steam will be allowed to escape during cooking.
  • Brush with the beaten egg.
  • Place into a hot oven at 220°C (425°F) and bake for 15 minutes.
  • Reduce the temperature to 170°C (325°F) and continue to bake for a further 45 minutes.

Hoping that you enjoy this exceptionally healthy dish.

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Farmers Lamb Healthy Stew

This exceptional warming recipe is based on Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which believes that winter, with its cold, damp, and inactivity all Yin characteristics. TCM suggests that in order to live in harmony with nature, we should slow down, stay warm, replenish our energy and conserve our strength during the winter season.

The TCM Kidney is associated with winter. Our Kidneys are considered the source of all Qi (energy) in our bodies, especially the deepest type of Qi called Essence. During the winter it is important to nourish and nurture our Kidney Qi by choosing appropriate foods and preparing them in ways that support the Kidneys.

Lamb is world-renowned, flavoursome, tasty and tender. Traditional Chinese medicine considers that lamb has especially good health promoting properties. It is warm in nature, it invigorates Yang, especially the Kidneys to benefit the Qi and warm blood circulation.

Ingredients.

  • 1 tbsp. butter or olive oil
  • 350 grams grass fed lamb stew meat, cubed, seasoned with salt, pepper and cumin
  • 2 onions, peeled and quartered
  • 3 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
  • 1 ginger chopped
  • 4 cups water or stock
  • 1 cup organic red wine
  • 1 tsp. dried rosemary
  • 2 carrots, chopped into 2-3 inch pieces
  • 1 medium potato, chopped into 1-2 inch cubes
  • 1 tsp. sea salt
  • 1/8 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
  • Parsley

Cooking procedure:

  • In a soup pot, sear lamb cubes until lightly browned. Add ginger onions and garlic and cook 2-3 minutes.
  • Add stock, red wine, dried rosemary, and bring to a boil.
  • Cover and reduce heat to medium/low for 45 minutes.
  • Add carrots, potato and cook 20-30 minutes.
  • Add sea salt and black pepper and cook an additional 5 minutes.
  • Season with chopped parsley.

This is very simple and easy to cook and has very positive benefits like

  • Warms Kidney Yang and the Gate of Vitality
  • Warms Qi and Blood circulation
  • Strengthens the lower back and legs
  • Nourishes Blood and increase production of milk after labour

Precautions.

  • Lamb is warm in characteristic so I would suggest to AVOID eating lamb if your body has an infection.
  • The heat from lamb is best AVOIDED when you suffer from high blood pressure.
  • Eat lamb less during the hot summer

I hope you enjoy all the benefits of this deep nourishing recipe.

James O’Sullivan - that's me, a people friendly practitioner and lecturer of Integrated Medicine, serving my patients, my students and the public with the positive benefits of both Conventional Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. It's a wonderful life
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