It's been cold and wet in Canberra lately. It's weird, in my first year at Uni it never rained once. I'm glad - at it made me stick it out down here. I thought to myself - if I'd been at Uni, living on campus, without a car and it had rained for two weeks straight in my first semester, I would have given up!
It would have changed my life completely! I would have never met Phillip (my finance), I would have never finished my degree in PR (I would have gone to Sydney Uni and studied Speech Pathology, my second choice), I would never had met some of my best friends ... life would be so, so different.
But here I am living in Canberra, preparing for my wedding and living on the FODMAP diet (which I would be on no matter where I was living or what I was doing).
You know when it's cold and wet outside you want to come home to something warm and tasty - comfort food. I'm thinking a big bowl of Chili Con Carne ... except that contains a lot of ingredients that I can't eat under the FODMAP diet. So I need to think outside the square ....
White Chili
1 tbsp garlic infused olive oil
1/4 cup green tops of the spring onion*
1/4 cup green capsicum
2 jalapeno peppers
4 cups water
2 skinless chicken breasts
2 cans white kidney beans**
1 cup corn***
1 1/2 tbsp corn meal
1/2 cup fresh coriander
salt and pepper
In a large soup pot, heat the oil, onion, capsicum, and jalapeno. Stir often and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the water and chicken and bring to a boil. Keep the soup cooking at a low rolling boil for 20-25 minutes. This will develop a wonderful chicken broth. Remove the chicken and let cool.
Add the salt, pepper, beans and corn to the soup. Let it cook at a low boil for 45 minutes.Once the chicken is cool, shred the meat off the bone and toss back into the soup.
In a separate bowl scoop about 1/2 cup of the broth. Stir in the corn meal until it dissolves. Stir the mixture into the soup along with the coriander and cook for another 10 minutes.
Serve hot with grated cheese**** (if you're not on the FODMAP diet) and tostada shells or tortilla chips (corn based & gluten free).
NOTES
*Avoid adding the white under the FODMAP diet.
** Can't find white kidney beans? you can substitute with cannellini beans or fazolia bean.
*** I'd use super sweet corn if I was on the FODMAP diet.
****Individuals should avoid lactose-rich foods such as ice cream, milk, condensed milk, and most soft cheeses (eg, cottage cheese), as they are not FODMAP friendly for those with lactose intolerance.Some hard cheeses may be alright depending on your lactose intolerance.
It would have changed my life completely! I would have never met Phillip (my finance), I would have never finished my degree in PR (I would have gone to Sydney Uni and studied Speech Pathology, my second choice), I would never had met some of my best friends ... life would be so, so different.
But here I am living in Canberra, preparing for my wedding and living on the FODMAP diet (which I would be on no matter where I was living or what I was doing).
You know when it's cold and wet outside you want to come home to something warm and tasty - comfort food. I'm thinking a big bowl of Chili Con Carne ... except that contains a lot of ingredients that I can't eat under the FODMAP diet. So I need to think outside the square ....
White Chili
1 tbsp garlic infused olive oil
1/4 cup green tops of the spring onion*
1/4 cup green capsicum
2 jalapeno peppers
4 cups water
2 skinless chicken breasts
2 cans white kidney beans**
1 cup corn***
1 1/2 tbsp corn meal
1/2 cup fresh coriander
salt and pepper
In a large soup pot, heat the oil, onion, capsicum, and jalapeno. Stir often and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the water and chicken and bring to a boil. Keep the soup cooking at a low rolling boil for 20-25 minutes. This will develop a wonderful chicken broth. Remove the chicken and let cool.
Add the salt, pepper, beans and corn to the soup. Let it cook at a low boil for 45 minutes.Once the chicken is cool, shred the meat off the bone and toss back into the soup.
In a separate bowl scoop about 1/2 cup of the broth. Stir in the corn meal until it dissolves. Stir the mixture into the soup along with the coriander and cook for another 10 minutes.
Serve hot with grated cheese**** (if you're not on the FODMAP diet) and tostada shells or tortilla chips (corn based & gluten free).
NOTES
*Avoid adding the white under the FODMAP diet.
** Can't find white kidney beans? you can substitute with cannellini beans or fazolia bean.
*** I'd use super sweet corn if I was on the FODMAP diet.
****Individuals should avoid lactose-rich foods such as ice cream, milk, condensed milk, and most soft cheeses (eg, cottage cheese), as they are not FODMAP friendly for those with lactose intolerance.Some hard cheeses may be alright depending on your lactose intolerance.
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