Allergy Support Stir Fry with Sesame Honey Sauce
We are in for a treat this Spring!
Our wonderful nurse practitioner, Lynda Sherland, has created a recipe to help mitigate our Spring allergies.
Using many of the foods from Good Food’s 10 foods to support your seasonal allergies, this recipe is full of anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and enzymatic components to reduce allergy symptoms. Check out their article to find out exactly how these foods are helping us with our allergies.
Lynda also concocted a sesame honey sauce which combats allergies in multiple ways. Sesamin, found in sesame oil, can inhibit “mast cell‑derived inflammatory allergic reactions by blocking histamine release, and pro‑inflammatory cytokine production and secretion.” (1) This means sesame oil can help combat allergies at their source! Additionally, local honey contains small amounts of pollen from the surrounding plants, which may prime your immune system to better handle the pollen when it comes (almost like a vaccine!)
Check out our latest blog on mitigating Spring allergies through the Integrative Medicine lens, where we dive further into the pathophysiology of allergies and what we can do to support our bodies.
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Spring Time Support Stir Fry
Recipe by Lynda Sherland, CRNP, FNP-C
Serves 2
Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ red onion rough chopped
4 cloves garlic minced, you may purchase this already minced.
1 tsp Ginger minced. I used Dorot Gardens crushed ginger purchased at Trader Joe’s.
1 small bok choy sliced
1 cup kale, chopped
2 salmon filets, baked to your preferred doneness
Directions
Heat olive oil and add onion, saute until soft. Add garlic and ginger and saute for 5 additional minutes, careful not to brown garlic. Add bok choy and kale and cook until greens slightly wilted. Stir in ½ of sauce and toss. Serve over rice (I used Trader Joe's Frozen brown rice prepared according to package directions). Top with salmon filets and spoon sauce with pineapples over the salmon.
Sesame Honey Sauce
Ingredients
¼ cup sesame oil
¼ cup local honey
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp ginger, minced
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 cup chopped frozen pineapple
Directions
Heat all gently in a small pan. Add ½ of sauce to stir fry and toss
Add frozen pineapple (place pineapple under the broiler in a lightly oiled pan until caramelized) to the remaining sauce.
Li LC;Piao HM;Zheng MY;Lin ZH;Li G;Yan GH; “SESAMIN Attenuates Mast Cell-Mediated Allergic Responses by Suppressing the Activation of p38 and Nuclear Factor-ΚB.” Molecular Medicine Reports, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Jan. 2016, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26573554/.