Digestion
Reishi Mushroom Miso Soup Recipe
Whether it’s made by a Michelin-star restaurant or your local takeout joint, miso soup is always so comforting for both our Heart and digestive system. This miso soup recipe incorporates many different kinds of mushrooms to add extra umami flavor and adaptogenic qualities. The addition of reishi, depending on the variety and form you use, may give this soup a slightly bitter aftertaste. If that bothers you, you can skip it and still make a healing bowl of miso soup.
Pesto Chicken Quinoa Bowl Recipe
This pesto chicken quinoa bowl is packed with herbs from the basil pesto and the Italian spice mix and gets a slight kick of heat from the red pepper. If you enjoy the flavor profile, this dish can also be made with orzo in place of quinoa.
Baked Strawberry French Toast Recipe
Support your Heart with this deliciously decadent breakfast recipe. For a twist, add a mixture of fresh raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries to the batter before baking.
Roast Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe
Healthy chicken and sweet potato recipes are always a delicious and reliable choice for dinner. This low-calorie sheet-pan meal combines chicken thighs and sweet potatoes and cooks up fast in a very hot oven. Serve with a salad of mixed greens, sliced apples and blue cheese.
Summer Jerk Chicken: A Recipe for Better Digestive Health
The DAO Middle Burner Diet is the idea from Chinese medicine that the digestive process should consist of creating a hundred degree Fahrenheit “soup” in the stomach. Whatever facilitates the creation of such a “soup” in the stomach benefits digestion and whatever impedes the creation of a hundred degree “soup” in the stomach impedes digestion (for more information on the middle burner concept, see my explanation in this earlier (and delicious) recipe).
