If you’re not a fan of sushi, or just want to try it in a totally different way, go for a little Soul Food Sushi. That’s right, combine your favorite soul food ingredients, but put them in sushi form. And it’s healthy for you! Using just about any soul food recipe, you can split it up into smaller portions and still have the same taste!
Prep Time:1 Minute
Cook time:1 Minute
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup tomato sauce (your favorite brand will do)
- 2 tbsps gorgonzola cheese crumbles
- 4 large leaves of collard greens (cooked, drained)
- freshly ground pepper
- kosher salt-dirty rice
Directions
- Spread out each of the collard greens leaves flat, side by side
- Using about 1/2 cup of dirty rice on each of the leaves, spread out on each
- Roll each of the leaves upon a cinnamon-roll loaf style
- Cut each rolled loaf into one-inch sections
- Spread tomato sauce on top of each cut section
- Crumble gorgonzola cheese as a finish
Recipe by: Chef D.Lauyn
Cruciferous vegetables, like collard greens, are unique because they’re rich in sulfur-containing compounds called glucosinolates, which support detoxification, and indole-3-carbinol that greatly reduces the risk of breast, colon and lung cancer. Collard greens are a great source of vitamin K and vitamin A; they’re also rich in soluble fiber and have strong antioxidant properties. By adding collard greens to your diet, you reduce disease-causing inflammation, cure digestive conditions, detox your body and boost cardiovascular health.
One of the most important components of collard greens, and other cruciferous vegetables is glutathione. This peptide consists of three key amino acids that play several vital roles in the body. It helps the liver cleanse and detoxify fat, boosts immune function, fights cancer, protects the body from environmental toxins, and prevents drug resistance. Glutathione is so important to our health that longevity researchers believe the levels that are present in our cells serve as a predictor of how long we are going to live. Collard greens boost glutathione levels and allow this molecule to do its magic.
Collard greens are among the best vitamin C foods, and they’re a good source of vitamin K and soluble fiber. They also contain multiple nutrients with potent anti-cancer properties, such as diindolylmethane and sulforaphane.
One cup of cooked collard greens has about:
- 49 calories
- 1 gram of fat
- 30 milligrams sodium
- 9 grams carbohydrate
- 5 grams dietary fiber
- 1 gram sugar
- 4 grams protein
- 836 micrograms vitamin K (1,045 percent DV)
- 15,416 international units vitamin A (308 percent DV)
- 35 milligrams vitamin C (58 percent DV)
- 1.7 milligrams vitamin E (8 percent DV)
- 0.2 milligrams vitamin B6 (12 percent DV)
- 0.4 milligrams pantothenic acid (4 percent DV)
- 177 micrograms folate (44 percent DV)
- 0.2 milligrams riboflavin (12 percent DV)
- 0.1 milligrams thiamine (5 percent DV)
- 1.1 milligrams niacin (5 percent DV)
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