Chicken and Sweet Potato Stir Fry
Today's Monday Munchie is from Women's Health Magazine; Chicken and Sweet Potato Stir Fry! This recipe contains both sweet potatoes and quinoa, 2 ingredients that yield great health benefits.- High in vitamin B6 // Helps us maintain normal and healthy brain and nerve function, fight disease, and form red blood cells. It also helps us to break down and digest proteins.
- Vitamin C // Vitamin C plays an important role in bone and tooth formation, digestion, and blood cell formation. It helps accelerate wound healing, produces collagen which helps maintain skin’s youthful elasticity, and is essential to helping us cope with stress.
- Vitamin D // Vitamin D plays an important role in our energy levels, moods, and helps to build healthy bones, heart, nerves, skin, and teeth, and it supports the thyroid gland.
- Iron // Helps us to have adequate energy, resist stress and have proper immune functioning
- Magnesium // A relaxation and anti-stree mineral
Quinoa (a.k.a. The Supergrain of the Future!)
- Very rich in protein // It is a complete protein containing all nine essential amino acids.
- High in Vitamin B2 // Improves energy metabolism within brain and muscle cells and is known to help create proper energy production in cells.
- Contains almost twice as much fiber as most other grains.
- Like sweet potatoes, quinoa also contains both iron and magnesium
- High content of the antioxidant manganese
NUTRITION INFORMATION
Calories: 310 cal
Fat: 8.6 g
Saturated Fat: 1 g
Cholesterol: 54.5 mg
Sodium: 290.7 mg
Carbohydrates: 33.5
Sugar: 7.3 g
Fiber: 6.1
Protein: 24.4 g
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Sources:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/juliewilcox/2012/06/26/7-benefits-of-quinoa-the-supergrain-of-the-future/
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