Healthy food can be absolutely delicious! This recipe includes a good dose of cabbage, a cancer fighting cruciferous vegetable, and is a slightly modified version of the wonderful original Japanese Pizza recipe by Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks.
Ingredients
2 cups of cabbage, sliced thin
2 cup of leeks, sliced thin and cleaned well to remove any grit
3 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
2/3 cup of quinoa or brown rice flour
2 eggs, beaten (DHA, organic eggs would be ideal)
1 tsp toasted sesame oil
1 tbsp tamari
Canola oil for frying (Canola oil has a higher smoke point than olive oil)
Directions
Combine the cabbage, leeks, sesame seeds and flour in a bowl and mix until everything is well combined. In a separate bowl blend the eggs, sesame oil and tamari. Combine the vegetables with the egg mixture and blend well. In a large frying pan, heat the canola oil and then add the mixture to the pan, pressing it down with a spatula to spread it out evenly on the pan, in the form of a pancake. Continue to press down to flatten and fry for 4 to 5 minutes. In order to fry the pizza on the other side, slide the pizza onto a large plate. Hold the frying pan upside down above the raw side, and then holding the pan firmly, flip the plate over so that the raw side lands on the hot frying pan. Continue to press down on the pizza with a spatula and cook another 3 to 5 minutes or until golden. Serve right away.
Heidi recommends serving this with chives and chopped almonds. You can also use scallions. I also tried it with a quick spicy mustard sauce I made. It was basically 2 tbsp of hot mustard, a dash of sesame oil ad a couple of dashes of tamari.
Enjoy ~
Photo credit: Heidi Swanson
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Hey there, You’ve done a fantastic job. I should undoubtedly delicious it and I’ll recommend to my friends. Almost certainly they are going to be benefited from this site.
Thanks Louis! Check out the kale pesto recipe I have on the blog… it is called hearty kale pesto. Completely delicious!
The Japanese pizza is fabulous – a great breakfast, lunch or dinner – and it couldn’t be easier. Barbara, thanks for the info on cruciferous vegetables – and I would love to see some recipes with kale – it is the one vegetable I have not figured out yet – thanks so much
I would not recommend this dish for a cancer-survivor or anyone wanting to prevent cancer, but it sounds tasty and has healthy ingredients (except for the eggs). It could easily be adapted to a vegan/living foods dish that would greatly enhance the nutritional value and eliminate several two toxins that are associated with cancer that are created whenever carbohydrates or proteins are fried. A great website for cancer survivors who want help with diet has been set up by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (cancerproject.org).
I have a friend who had chemo for breast cancer last year. She is greatly minimizing cooked foods in her diet while also drinking fresh green juice she makes twice a day to nourish her body and keep it alkaline. She also minimizes soy and is vegan now, because eating meats and dairy (and many grains) makes the body acidic. It’s a drastic change, but its the best way to fight cancer and she thinks it is well worth it.
Thanks for your comments Joyce ~ I appreciate you weighing in with your view. While eggs may not be ideal for a cancer patient, everyone can benefit from eating more cabbage and that was the purpose of the post (as it actually partnered with a separate post promoting cancer-fighting cruciferous vegetables). Perhaps a raw coleslaw recipe would indeed have made more a more cohesive entry, but my readership is very broad and my focus was to help people move away from less nutritious foods and onto a healthier diet that includes more vegetables! I have a previous entry ‘Preventing & Fighting Cancer’ that I need to move to this new blog that includes the tips you mention, along with several podcasts on the topic of fighting and preventing cancer. I hope you’ll subscribe so that you can read, hear and comment when they’re up.
I am also an advocate of a vegan, primarily raw food diet for those looking to manage cancer naturally and even those that want to live a raw food lifestyle in order to prevent cancer and other diseases. I am actually embarking on a 100% raw food lifestyle this Spring and you may enjoy following my progress as it’s closely related to the advocacy work you do. I’ll post details here soon.
Thanks again for taking the time to comment so thoughtfully!
B