Cardiac Goulash

Slave has been spending time with a cardiologist so focus has been on getting more healthy. He told me to think “beyond bananas”.

A side effect of diuretic drugs can be low potassium levels. However for the body to use and maintain that potassium it needs magnesium also. I do not intend to get deeply into the medical aspects. Just trust me: You need both, potassium and magnesium.

So lets set our sights on other sources of these necessary elements.

To this effort we have a new recipe that helps provide natural sources in a tasty familiar meal.

Our Cardiac Goulash makes use of spinach, white beans, tomatoes, and green beans. This is presented in a one pot meal the whole family will fight over. Especially if you don't mention how healthy it is.

Ingredients:

½ lbs of hamburger

2 bratwurst, without the casing

½ onion, chopped

1 pkg frozen spinach, thawed and wrung out. One cup delivers 540 mg potassium and 40% needed of magnesium.

2 (14-1/2-ounce) cans stewed tomatoes (reserve the liquid) offering up to 728 milligrams per cup.

1 can white beans rinsed 1,189 milligrams of potassium in a one-cup serving

1 cup beef broth

1 cup green beans 209 mg potassium and 25mg of magnesium

1 cup corn 390 mg potassium and 47.85 mg of Magnesium

2 teaspoons garlic powder

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon black pepper

4 Tbs flour

Directions:

Do your cutting: chop the onion and pull the casing off of the sausage.

In a dutch oven, brown the hamburger, sausage and onion about 6 mins.

Drain the cans of stewed tomatoes into a food processor. Reserve the tomatoes. Feed in a 10 oz package of thawed and drained spinach. Process until smooth, like a pesto.

Drain the grease out of the meat and add the processed spinach. Add ½ cup of beef broth. Let simmer for 10 minutes.

Add the reserved tomatoes and the drained white beans. Stir in the corn and green beans.

In a small bowl mix the rest of the broth with: flour, salt, garlic powder, and pepper. Stir well into a slurry to add to the goulash.

Let cook for another 7 – 10 mins on a low simmer.

Adjust seasonings to taste.

If you wish add a quick topping of a spoonful on non flavored yogurt!

What a wonderful goulash type stew just full of great flavor. What an honor to be serving this one dish meal.

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