stuffed peppers

over the past 6 months ryan has been having some digestion issues and abdominal pain, so we went to the doctor and all he did was give him some pills to take before meals, (which is a typical doctor's proceedure.)  not good enough for me.  so i came home and did some research and found a diet that is suppose to support the digestive track and heal the gut.  it is called the specific carbohydrate diet.  there is a huge list of foods i found from a-z that we should and shouldn't eat.  these foods are said to be harmful to the gut.   i thought this diet would be dreadful since one of the foods we can't eat is grains, but there are so many resources online full of recipes that makes it easier to bear.

since we live in south korea and we only have a two burner stove, i usually have to adapt my own recipe or make something up in the kitchen due to lack of resources.  so far all our meals have been a success.  every night it seems i cook something up from my head, walk it over to ryan and say, "i don't know if this will be good."  it turns out that we have had some of the best meals since living here.

ryan's stomach pain is gone and we both feel a lot healthier.

* if you don't have an oven, like us, then what you can do is take a metal noodle strainer and place it in a pan on the stove.  put your peppers on top of the strainer and cover it all with an additional pan to trap heat.

serves two:

ingredients
2 peppers
4 eggs
3 chicken breasts
2-3 cloves of garlic
1 large carrot
1 T olive oil, (optional)
1 tsp parsley
1/2 tsp salt or garlic salt

2 avocados
1 hand-full of cilantro
1/2 tsp garlic salt
2 T lime juice

directions
preheat the oven to 350 F

cut chicken breast into chunks and cook in boiling water until it is almost cooked all the way.  Pull the chicken and chop into small pieces.

clean and peel the first layer off of the carrot.  then chop it into small pieces.  (put into blender to make pieces even smaller.)

chop garlic into small pieces.

combine the chicken, carrot, garlic, salt and egg in a pan and cook on low until the egg starts to solidify.  when the egg is becoming solid, pull the pan off the burner.

while the mix is cooking, wash the peppers and cut the top off.  clean out the inside and drizzle with olive oil.  place the peppers in a small oven dish, (small enough that the peppers won't roll around.)

place the peppers in the oven for 7 minutes.

scoop the mix into the peppers and pack in tight.  place in oven for about 7 more minutes or until you finish making the guacamole.

to make guacamole:
cut two avocados in half length wise, scoop out avocado and 1 seed, (to keep guacamole from turning brown in case you have left overs.)  discard the shell and other seed.  mash up avocado with lime, cilantro and garlic salt.

pull the peppers from the oven and place a dollop of guacamole on top.  sprinkle with parsley.