Looking for a healthy party appetizer or a nice side dish at dinner? These baked asparagus wrapped in halal-certifiedDeli Halal Oven-Roasted Turkey Breast slices are so delicious and nutritious that you’ll serve them over and over again for gatherings, or even as a side dish to your dinner spreads.
If you’ve read this site before, you’ll know that I’ve been a fan of Deli Halal products since they first came out a few years ago. Now, they’ve re-launched and are available in stores across the United States. This is so super exciting because not only are they hand-processed, truly halal deli meats, but they don’t contain any of those nitrites or nitrates that you find in so many deli meats, halal or not.
Chop off the tough bottoms of the asparagus sprigs. I like to do this at an angle.
Once cooked, the asparagus sprigs will soften quite a bit.
Roast the bundles in the oven for 15 minutes. Let cool and serve on a platter with fresh herbs, slices of lemon, olives or any other similar types of toppings or condiments such as garlic-mayonnaise or spicy mustard (both recipes you can find in the My Halal Kitchen cookbook).
Recently I spoke with Diane Aboushi during a live interview about her family farm in upstate New York that serves quality Halal and tayyib (pure/wholesome) meat, poultry and vegetables not only to her local community, but to anyone in the U.S. who wants their products shipped to them.
In this video you’ll gain a lot of insight into why she and her husband started the farm. Diane is a lawyer by education and is now using that experience to work on issues surrounding food justice.
You’ll also hear about some of the reasons why her customers are ordering things like beef fat, something that not everyone offers in the food world. We also discuss food freedom and what it means to grow your own and how empowering that can be.
Have a listen at the video above and be sure to visit their site to order: www.halalpastures.com.
If you’ve been following my audio series on The Meaning of Halal & Tayyib, you’ll know I’ve been rolling them out daily for the past several days. Now that I’m finished, I’m putting them all in one place for you so that you can have them in one place, making them easier to find and watch all at once, if you like.
The first one is an overview of what it means to consume halal (permissible) and tayyib (pure) and why it’s so important, considering the modern food industry’s tendency to add so many ingredients and by-products in our foods that it becomes an overwhelming and cumbersome feat to choose the foods that are healthiest and also halal. I begin to break down and simplify these issues for you in the first video.
In the second video, I dive into the first main category of foods to be explained in terms of what you need to know when selecting for halal: Dairy Products.
In the third video, I explain all about things that go into breads (doughs), condiments and sauces that you may want to be aware of when purchasing these kinds of products, or making them yourself.
In this section, I discuss the topic of eating out and cooking global cuisine such as French, Italian, Spanish and even American foods due to some of the non-halal ingredients and what you may want to know before dining at restaurants or purchasing ingredients for your own home cooking.
In the last video, I provide solutions for all of these issues discussed in the previous four videos, which are takeaways that will empower you and your family to take charge of your daily food routines, your health and your lives.
This is my fourth video in a series of audio discussions about what halal means and how that affects what we put into our bodies. In this presentation, I discuss various issues pertaining to halal when eating out or cooking global cuisine dishes and the ingredients that can be substituted for non-halal ones. This content is a discussion based on the research that went into my book, My Halal Kitchen: Global Recipes, Cooking Tips and Lifestyle Inspiration which can be purchased on Amazon at https://bit.ly/2UZor3i or on Book Depository with free global shipping worldwide.
I’d love to know your thoughts, comments or any questions you might have in the section below here on my website or on my YouTube channel. Please don’t forget to subscribe to my channel for video recipes and more.
This is something I’ve wanted to discuss for a very long time with everyone: Who Really Cares About Halal?
I want to open up the conversation to see where everyone is on the question of what truly makes up a halal food item or process? Do you really know? How much do you care about it? What lengths are you willing to go to ensure what you put in your body truly is halal? Here’s my take on the topic- would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
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