An easy-to-find healthy ingredient Chan regards as highly underrated? The humble short grain brown rice. “It’s my staple and has been for over 10 years. The nutritional value of brown rice is much higher than regular white rice. It is so versatile, you can use it in so many forms - fried, risotto, porridge, arancini, paella, steamed and baked to name a few.”
As for easy ways to dial up taste while dialing down your time in the kitchen, Chan suggests, “using spices and herbs, roasting vegetables to give it an added depth of sweetness and fermenting and pickling food.” She says, “For me, it’s all about using whole, organic, unprocessed and unpackaged ingredients to create dishes that pay ode to authentic flavours while always keeping nutrient density in mind.”
That sounds easy enough for us.