How to make healing chicken breasts for dinner ~

When we begin viewing our food as medicine, the real healing begins.

I don’t believe in ‘diets’ in the traditional sense of the word. Dietary regimes based on mindsets of self-shaming, self-punishment, and denial don’t work if you have autoimmunity. The last way of thinking you want to crystalize is one that attacks the self. That is the very mechanism we work to heal.

Food is life. What we eat, becomes the tissues of our body.

Coming from a mindset of self care around eating changes everything. In my coaching, we work on this, among other things.

How can the way you think actually heal your body?

Let’s just look at food right now. When we realize that our food can heal us, our relationship with it changes.

When you have food allergies or sensitivities, eating can be super stressful. You may be anxiously wondering how your body will react. Restaurants can be the worst – you feel like you should be having fun, but you actually just feel worried.

When you cook for yourself, all that can change. You trust your ingredients, you trust your kitchen. It becomes a happy place where you have control over your food, and you’re uplifted in gratitude that it can literally heal you.

Here’s a recipe that does this – it’s a lovely dinner choice.

If you don’t have all the herbs, I recommend picking some up. They make all the difference.

Let your cooking experience be a time of deep breathing, present moment awareness, and fun – put on your favorite music.

RECIPE

Ingredients

1/4 cup ghee

~ NOTE ~ Ghee is a truly amazing food. It’s clarified butter, and a good ghee can be eaten by sensitive eaters, even those sensitive to dairy. This stuff heals your gut, and that’s exactly what you want! I use a product called Fourth & Heart Ghee. Check them out on Instagram at @fourthandheart , or pick up an organic ghee where you shop.

Pack of organic chicken breasts – I like ones divided into strips, if available.

Bunch of orange carrots

1 sweet or yellow onion

4 cloves fresh garlic

3 sprigs fresh rosemary

3 sprigs fresh thyme

1 teaspoon sage powder

2 teaspoons parsley flakes

1 teaspoon sea salt

Method

• Preheat oven to 425 (another benefit of ghee is that it has a high heat point)
• Chop your onion. Notice the shape – there’s almost lines to guide your cuts so that they become strips.
• Toss onions with a couple tablespoons of melted ghee in a glass baking dish and stick in the oven
• Peel and chop your carrots and set aside
• Smash garlic cloves
• When the onions have been cooking for about 12 minutes take them out
• Add carrots, garlic and sage powder to the onions and stir together
• Place chicken breasts over the top
• drizzle remaining ghee over the top of everything
• Sprinkle parsley and salt over chicken
• Add all sprigs to top of dish
• Bake 28 minutes

Enjoy!!

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