Tag: Ginger

Balinese Chicken

This lovely recipe is easy and smells divine when you are cooking it! Try to use organic chicken or at least a good quality free range chicken like Lilydale. 1 onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic 3 teaspoons chopped fresh ginger 1 teaspoon dried chilli flakes or fresh small red chillies (or to taste) 1 tablespoon crunchy Read More …

Soba Noodle Soup with Five-spice Chicken

½ teaspoon dried chilli flakes     ¼ teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder     ½ teaspoon caster sugar      600g chicken breast thinly sliced     2 litres chicken stock      3 cm piece thinly sliced ginger     270g dried organic soba noodles (available from Health Food Shops, Coles or Woolies) cooked & drained 1 bunch pak choy chopped Corn cut from 1 cob Read More …

Bad period pain?

A recent study has found that Ginger was as effective as mefenamic acid (eg Ponstan) and ibuprofen (eg Nurofen) in relieving pain in women with severe period cramping. The participants took one capsule of dried Ginger rhizome (root) powder four times a day for the first three days of their period.  Other groups in the Read More …