Showing posts with label Sea Salt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sea Salt. Show all posts
HELLO CHESTNUTS & Homemade Chicken Broth
Every winter it seems my family finds a new soup recipe to enjoy for the season. And this past week my sister found an amazing one in Chesnut Soup, right out of the Fine Cooking magazine. OH MY GOD, was this delicious and worth the hours or soaking, scoring, roasting, peeling and crushing the chestnuts! It was like we were living in the olden days (which is actually the way it should be when it comes to food)! We all believe that the soup was so delicious because my mom made a homemade chicken broth for the soup base, a recipe straight from the Barefoot Contessa cookbook. We in the Huwer household are not strangers to homemade broth, but Ina Garten's recipe tops them all. We took her recipe, "organified" it, and it was the most amazing, richest broth that we all have ever tasted.
In my family, we always try to use homemade organic chicken broth to avoid the MSG, preservatives and the salt that you get with canned broth. It is hard to find a brand that actually makes MSG-free broth besides Swanson, but we still love to make our own because the homemade flavor is BA-zillion times better.
Check out the recipe for chicken broth that we made here. Note, the recipe calls for 3, 5-pound chickens. We used one 5-pound chicken and left all of the other ingredients as is.
I suggest you also check out the recipe for Chestnut Soup. YUM! It is such a hearty and sophisticated soup for a cold winter day. Actually it will be perfect for the Nor'easter that is heading our way for New Year's!!
Chestnut Soup
And thanks to Chestnuts On Line I discovered that chestnuts have a high water content which makes them unlike any other nut. They are considered very "unnutty" because they are low in calories and fat. Chestnuts On Line dubs them the nut for the "nutrition-conscious person." They are also low in cholesterol, high in Vitamin C and the mineral Magenese. Can I say YES?!
Chestnuts!
A Healthier Salt
If you are a salt user I beg you to switch to a Sea Salt or Himalayan Crystal Salt . Why you may ask? Well, we all know that too much salt is not a good thing. True, our bodies need salt to maintain a functional sodium potassium pump, but really our bodies need less than half a teaspoon of salt a day! Most people consume WAY more than that just by eating pre-packaged foods or sprinkling lunch and dinner with a little flavor flavor.
Himalayan crystal salt and sea salt are healthier versions of table or kosher salt because they contain natural minerals from the sea. They also are lacking the chemicals and additives like potassium iodide found in typical table salt. These natural sea salts also have a better flavor and are "prized by good chefs" (Jared Koch, Clean Plates).
So if you use salt, it is wise to use it in moderation and equally as wise to use a natural salt that holds nutritional benefits. You can find sea salt/himalayan crystal salt at your local health food store or specialty grocery store. I actually found my French sea salt at Home Goods!! I love the container it came in too...Oh, and I believe it was $3.99 :)
The bad stuff.
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