Michael Symon’s original recipe from the September 28th episode can be found here:
This was a recipe where I ended up changing six of the nine ingredients just to make it more like something Dr. Oz might eat.
The three things kept from Symon's recipe:
- · Parsley
- · Olive oil
- · Vinegar
I modified three other ingredients:
- · Garbanzo beans/chick peas - I used a reduced sodium brand
- · Lemon - because it involved using the zest, I used an organic lemon
- · Couscous - I used a whole wheat couscous
and swapped out the final three ingredients:
- · 86ed the golden raisins for nutrient-dense dried cranberries
- · Scrapped the high mercury tuna for a more Omega 3 rich canned wild-caught Alaska Salmon. Even if salmon weren't a healthier alternative, I don't know about where you live, but in my neck of the woods, not one store had ever heard of tuna coming in a jar.
- · Dumped pickled vegetables and used some tri-color peppers from a jar - much less sodium and colored peppers are rich in vitamins and carotinoids
Poor Daphne has been taking a lot of undeserved pot-shots from her fellow panelists. Here are a couple of examples:
- On Sept. 27th show, Michael Symon derided Oz as "Fat phobic" when she asked if the chicken could be made without the skins. btw: As I wrote in my previous blog entry, I made the same dish w/o the skin and it was very flavorful. Besides, one look @ my ample behind should be proof enough that I'm not fat-phobic)
- On this episode, Carla was suggesting that the dish could also be made with rice or farro, which prompted Mario Batali to pointedly inquire, "Can you use psyllium husks?"
To answer your question, Mario, however snide it might be, the answer is YES! Just to prove a point, I shook in a tablespoon or two of psyllium husks - & not one person who ate it could tell they were in there. Booyah!!! Score one for Daphne Oz.
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