Poached Halibut with Fennel and Cauliflower - Healthy Food Tip and Recipe

Today's Recipe
If you don't know what to serve for dinner tonight ...
If you want to enjoy great flavor along with an excellent source of vitamins, add this easy-to-prepare recipe to your Healthiest Way of Eating. The recipe creates a delicious broth, which you will want to savor to the very last drop.
Poached Halibut with Fennel and Cauliflower
Prep and Cook Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 lbs halibut, cut into 8 pieces
• 1 TBS fresh lemon juice
• 1TBS + 1 cup chicken or vegetable broth
• 1 medium sized onion, cut in half and sliced medium thick
• 1 large carrot, turned into 11/2 inch pieces
• 1-1/2 cups cauliflower florets, cut into quarters
• 1 medium sized fennel bulb, sliced medium thick
• 5 medium cloves garlic, pressed
• salt and black pepper to taste
• chopped fennel green tops for garnish

Directions:

1. Slice onion and chop garlic and let sit for at least 5 minutes to bring out their hidden health-promoting properties.
2. Rub halibut with lemon juice and season with a little salt and pepper. Set aside.
3. Heat 1 TBS broth in a 12 inch stainless steel skillet. Healthy Sauté onion in broth over medium heat for 5 minutes stirring frequently.
4. Add rest of broth and carrots. Simmer on medium heat for about 10 minutes covered.
5. Add cauliflower, fennel, and garlic. Place halibut steaks on top and continue to cook covered for about 6 more minutes. Season with salt and pepper
6. Serve halibut with vegetables and broth. Sprinkle with chopped fennel greens.

Serves 4 Serving Suggestions:

• Brown Rice

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Healthy Food Tip

What is the best tuna to buy?

I always like to recommend foods as close to their whole, natural forms as possible. Yet, in the case of tuna, it is difficult for me to stick with this principle 100% due to the types of fresh (and frozen) tuna most widely available in the marketplace and their relative risk of mercury toxicity.
Canned light tuna, ordinarily made from skipjack tuna, actually poses a substantially lower risk in terms of mercury exposure than fresh yellowfin or albacore tuna. So this type of tuna-canned light tuna-is the type that's best for you to buy if you want to eat tuna relatively often (for example, about one meal per week). If you are only interested in eating tuna about once per month, other options include yellowfin or albacore tuna (that is either fresh or frozen, troll or pole caught), which I would describe as having a medium mercury exposure risk. While from an ecological standpoint, I would rank these tuna as "best choices" most of us will probably want to consider the mercury and health risks right alongside of the ecological ones when deciding upon our food purchases.
While canned light tuna is my "best choice" recommendation when it comes to canned tuna, it's important to take a close look at the "canned light" label as skipjack, yellowfin, bluefin, and tongol can all be sold as "light" tuna. Skipjack is your best choice among these light tuna options for lowering your risk of mercury exposure.
I also recommend water-packed versus oil-packed tuna whenever you are buying canned tuna. In addition to questioning the quality of non-organic oils used in oil-packed tuna (and the unnecessary, lower-quality fat calories they provide), water-packed tuna, on average, contains a slightly higher omega-3 fat content than oil-packed tuna. However small it may be, it is yet another important benefit that it offers.
There are also more expensive, specialty brands of canned tuna available in the marketplace that may serve as a good option. Some of these specialty products give you better flavor and more omega-3 fatty acids due to higher-quality production methods.
They may also involve more sustainable fishing methods than many other forms of canned tuna.