If you’re looking for a light and healthy dinner idea… look no further than this!
It’s a superfood-filled dish made with clean ingredients that are sure to help you with your New Year’s weight loss goals.
You’ve got your greens, some veggies, a protein and a powerful gluten-free grain: black rice.
One of my favorite things to do is to take typical meals and elevate them with superfoods! This is basically my spin on a chicken and rice meal.
I found this black-rice-beauty while searching for some quinoa alternatives. It’s gluten free, loaded with fiber, protein and antioxidants.
I kept the seasoning simple on this one with fresh ginger and a drizzle of tamari (a gluten free soy sauce, but you can use any soy sauce).
The kabobs are also fairly simple, just a little bit of olive oil and seasoning on some shiitake mushrooms, bell pepper and mahi mahi that I cut into cubes, put on skewers, then grilled on my indoor grilling pan.
Now… I don’t like to put labels on myself and what I eat, but I’d definitely say I am a preferred pescatarian. I eat fish, fruits and vegetables, but omit dairy and all other animal products (besides honey, because it’s incredibly nutritious and a great sweetener).
I actually played around with my diet last year and started incorporating humanely raised, non-hormone or antibiotics chicken, because I felt my body needed more protein.
After several months of it, I saw no significant change in muscle tone or how I felt. I also just couldn’t get past the mental aspect of eating chicken, SO I went back to my vegetarian ways.
I firmly believe we are all created differently and some people just need meat! It’s all a matter of how YOU feel after you eat something and whatever makes you feel light and energized… stick with it!
If you’re wanting to just play around with your diet and explore some pescatarian options, this dish is perfect for you.
Mahi mahi is surprisingly meaty. A 3 ounce fish has around 20 grams of protein, plus it digests better than most meats. When you pair it with a fiber-filled rice option and some vegetables, you have a fully balanced, vibrant meal!
Give it a try!
Fish Kabobs & Soy-Ginger Black Rice Ingredients:
1 c. black rice (cooked)
1/2 to 1 tsp fresh ginger (grated)
2 tsp tamari (gluten free soy sauce)
2 pieces of mahi mahi (fresh or frozen)
1 bell pepper
1 c. shitake mushrooms
1/2 Tbsp olive oil (to season kabobs)
1/2 Tbsp fish seasoning of your choice
Directions:
- Cook 1 cup of black rice according to instructions.
- While rice is cooking, chop up 1 red bell pepper into cubes then place it into a large mixing bowl.
- Wipe off mushrooms with a dry paper towel, then place mushrooms in the same large mixing bowl.
- Place thawed mahi mahi onto a cutting board, cut once down the middle vertically, then horizontally into thirds. Place the 6 cubes into the same large mixing bowl as the veggies. Cube the other piece of fish and then add it to the mixing bowl.
- Drizzle a little olive oil over the fish and veggies and add seasoning. *For my seasoning I sprinkled a couple of dashes of an Alaskan seasoning over the top. You could also do just sea salt and lemon juice to keep it light.* Toss fish and veggies together until evenly coated.
- Take 2 to 3 stainless steel, heat resistant skewers and make your kabobs starting with; a piece of fish, mushroom, bell pepper then repeat until skewer is full. *Make skewers the length of your cooking pan, to ensure they fit on the pan.*
- Warm up a grill pan (or regular pan) on the stove on medium to high heat, add one tablespoon of coconut oil to coat pan.
- Grill each kabob 3-5 minutes on one side, flip over and grill on the other side 3-5 minutes or until it looks opaque.
- Once rice is done, while it’s still in the pan, drizzle soy sauce on top. Grate roughly 1/2 to one full teaspoon of ginger and add it to rice (season soy sauce and ginger to preferred taste).
- Serve 1/4 cup of the black rice with 1 fish kabob.
~Serves 2-3 people
*Simply double the recipe for additional servings.
NOTES:
*All veggies are organic.
*Fish should be WILD caught. FARM RAISED fish often carries a higher chance of being diseased and raised with antibiotics.
*Tamari soy sauce is simply gluten free soy sauce. If you are not gluten-free, choose a low sodium soy sauce for a healthier option.
