Here’s a really great slow-carb friendly lunch recipe. You can use it for dinner too, but people get really keen on having a bunch of lunch recipes (in my own life there really isn’t much difference between the two), so I’m calling it a lunch recipe.
It’s got everything you want: protein, veg, legumes, and some healthy fat. Good portions of each, as well.
I like arugula because it’s kind of spicy. It takes an otherwise bland-tasting lettuce and kicks it up a notch.
This was thrown together (as you can kind of tell from the photo) at work, and all I did was buy pre-cooked chicken strips with the rest of my ingredients. Each ingredient works really well, and as you eat it, it feels hearty.
And watch for a whole bunch of your co-workers to comment on how healthy you’re eating and how good it smells.
Ingredients
- 1 c almond meal (for a coarser mouthfeel, you can also just grind up almonds in a food processor)
- Cream from one can of full-fat coconut milk (the stuff you skim off the top of the can after it’s been in the fridge)
- an optional bit or two of stevia
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- pinch of ground nutmeg
Instructions
- In a saucepan, heat the coconut cream until it “melts” and gets liquidy. Then add the almonds and sweetener. Mix until combined thoroughly. Stir and cook on medium for about 5 minutes.
- When it thickens up a bit and you’re almost ready to take it off, add the seasonings and stir it together.
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