One of 15 Foods Excellent for Kidney Health: Cauliflower

Information, tips and recipes for adding cauliflower into a healthy kidney diet.

One of 15 foods excellent for kidney health cauliflower brings vitamin C, folate and fibre to your diet. It can also be helpful to your liver.

Cauliflower

How I Use Cauliflower

and how I can continue to do so for my health!

chopped up with other veggies with dip
chopped small with broccoli and dressing for a quick salad
steamed

I've also baked a whole cauliflower before but I didn't like it done like that!

I will continue to search out recipes to try until I find some really GOOD ones to include in our diet regularly.

It isn't that hard because I LIKE cauliflower but I have to work on getting the family interested in it! ;)

Health Benefits of Cauliflower

vitamin C
vitamin K and B6
folate
fights against cancer
fibre
heart healthy vegetable
helps immune system fight against infections

Wikipedia

Cauliflower is one of several vegetables in the species Brassica oleracea, in the family Brassicaceae. It is an annual plant that reproduces by seed. Typically, only the head is eaten. The cauliflower head is composed of a white infloresc...

Curried Cauliflower & Chickpea Stew

Kraft Recipe I tweaked to suit myself! I LOVE this one!

Prep time 10 min - Total time 30 min

Ingredients for 4 servings
1 Tbsp. canola oil • 1/2 lb. (225 g) boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2-inch pieces • 1 onion, chopped • 3 cloves garlic, minced • 4-1/2 tsp. minced gingerroot • 2 tsp. curry powder • 1-1/2 tsp. ground cumin • 3 cups small cauliflower florets • 1 can (28 fl oz/796 mL) no-salt-added diced tomatoes, undrained • 1 can (14 fl oz/398 mL) no-salt-added chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed • 1/4 cup water

HEAT oil in large nonstick skillet on medium-high heat. Cook chicken, onions and garlic 3 min. or until chicken is browned, stirring occasionally. Stir in ginger, curry powder and cumin and cook stirring 1 min.

ADD next 4 ingredients and stir. Bring to boil. Simmer on medium for 10 minutes or chicken is done and cauliflower tender.

REMOVE from heat. Serve.

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Delicious Recipe Stack

Delicious: Cauliflower Stack
Recipes collected into a stack on Delicious. NOT all recipes are healthy or kidney friendly but once you learn what IS you can tweak recipes to suit you by having MORE of the acceptable ingredients and LESS of the not so good! ;)

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My Commentary

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a Dr.or other medical professional. I AM a sufferer and fighter of Polycystic Kidney Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension and Gout. Any information I share has been researched on the internet or has been given to me via papers and printed information from my Drs., nurses, dietician, social workers or other health care professionals. I mean NO harm to anyone and I advise you BEFORE using any information I have provided to CHECK with YOUR health professionals and doctors. I simply want to share what I am learning throughout my own personalized journey to wellness. It has been said, "Write what you know." THIS I know because I live with it DAILY. Having said that:

Food has been a struggle for me for a long while now but I MUST work at this and TRY hard to eat right and healthy and improve as much as I possibly can for as long as I possibly can so I figured if I am struggling with these things DAILY and doing all this work and learning ANYWAY, why not SHARE things that I am learning with others and make their journey a little bit easier for them too.

SO, I started these pages as a help BOTH for myself and for YOU.

If it is helpful PLEASE feel free to let me know! ;)

This is a HARD process and journey to wellness and I hope that if even for a moment, even ONE item or idea or trick that I share makes your journey lighter or easier then I have given purpose and meaning to the reasons why or how this has been MINE as well.

I always wish you well and good luck with your journey too. xo

Updated: 06/06/2012, KDB

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