Cancer fighting foods are the very beneficial topic for us today. There are many dishes cooked with hope to contribute to our health and help us to fight the diseases included some cancers. Food for fighting cancer as an effective medicine that makes the body to be recuperated and to be healthier.
In the list of cancer fighting foods, chicken breast and sweet potato are high valued. Beside the spices and herbs like onion, curry, lemon grass etc are the factors to build a flavor dish and contribute some aspects to fight against the diseases. And you can find all those ingredient in chicken breast curry.
In the past chicken curry has been considered one of the main dishes of Asian cuisine. The dish is rich in flavor with the spicy from curry and brings the attractive fragrance to anybody who enjoy it. The combination of spices and different ingredients contained in chicken curry also bring the effect to human health in some aspects following traditional medicine.
Today curry is recognized with effects to cancer for it contains the ingredient like curcumin. This factor may kill some tumor cell types base on different mechanisms or affects and constrains them. Beside there are the researches related to sweet potato and chicken breast meat which are the good ingredients for whom who wish to keep their diet plan, also for health and even if for fighting cancers.
It is said that simple chicken breast curry is a popular recipe gathered the groups of some typical cancer fighting foods. This is also the easy recipe for you to cook at home any time when you love to enjoy.
Prepared and cooking time: 50 minutes
Serve: 2 servings
Ingredients:
- 160 g chicken breast, cut into 2 cm chunks
- 200 g sweet potato, cut into 2 cm chunks
- 50 g onion sliced ( ½ onion)
- 1 teaspoon shallot chopped fine
- 2 teaspoons of curry powder
- 1+ ½ teaspoons of salt
- 1 + ½ teaspoons sugar
- 3 lemon grasses, crush lightly
- 200 ml water
- 60-80 ml of coconut milk (100 ml coconut milk is possible)
- 2-3 teaspoons of cooking oil
Directions:
- Add 1 teaspoon of salt, ½ teaspoon of shallot chopped fine and curry powder into chicken breast, mix them and let them wait for 5-10 minutes.
- Fry sweet potato, add the rest of salt into the sweet potato. Fry it for 2-3 minutes. This step will keep your sweet potato that has light color.
- Use a sauce pan, fry the rest of shallot until it smells. Add the chicken breast and fry it for 3-5 minutes.
- Add water into the saucepan, cook chicken for boiling, keep the heat in medium level. Add sweet potato and lemon grass. Cook them for 7-10 minutes.
- Pour the coconut milk and sugar into the saucepan. Stir them and season again to suite your taste. Check again the sweet potato if it is cooked. Add the onion, stir them and turn off the cooker. The chicken curry is done.
- Serve curry warmly. It is possible to serve the simple chicken breast with steamed rice or bread.
