Antioxidant Warrior Dinner Recipe

Antioxidant Warrior Dinner

Give your body the raw materials it needs to protect you while you sleep. This recipe is full of copper, zinc, and manganese … you’ll use these nutrients to create the mighty Superoxide Dismutase antioxidant!

You will need:

• 1 sweet potato
• 1 cup brown or wild rice
• 2-3 cremini mushrooms
• 2 cups baby spinach
• 1 Bell pepper
• 1 carrot
• 5-10 Brazil nuts
• A quarter cup of sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, and pumpkinseeds
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 teaspoons coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 teaspoon miso paste
• Cumin and turmeric

Sweet Potato Mash

• Wash and chop 1 sweet potato
• Steam for twenty minutes (while steaming, prepare salad)
• Mash with a fork, adding a tablespoon of olive oil, plus a tsp each of cumin and turmeric and a pinch of nutmeg (how easy was that?!)

Seed and Rice Salad

• Cook 1 cup of wild or brown rice
• Wash, chop, and sauté 1/2 cup cremini mushrooms. Sauté in a tsp of coconut oil or butter.
• Drain rice and stir in 1 tsp olive oil, 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar, and 1 tsp miso paste. Mix in mushrooms and set aside.
• Wash and set aside 2 cups baby spinach
• Wash and chop one sweet pepper and one carrot and toss with baby spinach
• Chop 5-10 Brazil nuts, and add to a quarter cup of sesame seeds, pumpkinseeds, and sunflower seeds. Add this mix to rice and mushrooms.
• Add rice, mushroom, and seed-nut mix to salad and drizzle olive oil and balsamic vinegar over top

Serve with Sweet potato Mash on the side for a protein-rich antioxidant dinner.