Hey, I'm Dr. Josh Axe and welcome to my kitchen.
This week I'm representing my Ohio State Buckeyes, first off, and I want to say Go Bucs, and
also talk about making a southwestern omelet.
You're going to love this recipe.
I want to talk a little bit about some of the health benefits as well, specifically
starting with eggs.
A lot of people say, "Oh, I shouldn't eat too many eggs because eggs are bad, specifically
the yolks."
Eat the yolks.
They're good for you.
Remember, it's a real food.
So specifically, when you're buying eggs, you want to buy cage-free, free-range eggs.
Now, a lot of chickens today are put in coops and so they're all cooped up, no pun intended
with that, and specifically, they actually eat a lot of corn, a lot of just even different
meats from other animals, and it just ends up being really, really bad for you and your
health.
Also, they're not out in the sunlight, they don't get enough vitamin D.
So most of the chickens and eggs you're eating today, they're highly toxic.
So you want to go with free-range eggs.
Specifically, even statistically, these free-range eggs have three times more vitamin E, they
have double the Omega 3 fats, and they have seven times more beta-carotene.
If you look at regular eggs today, usually the yolk itself is a lighter yellow.
If you were getting these free-range, organic eggs, typically it's almost an orange color.
And you want to buy local eggs, or again, the free range in the regular grocery store
if you can.
So we're going to start off here with these eggs, and you're just going to go ahead and
break those open here.
Get it started, and again, lots and lots of health benefits.
Those Omega 3 fats you're going to find in these eggs help reduce inflammation.
It's going to help reverse disease in your body.
So we're starting off there with the eggs.
While we've got this pan, I'm getting this heated up right now, we're actually going
to add in extra virgin coconut oil.
Coconut oil is a good type of saturated fat that will actually help your body burn fat
and lose weight.
So I'm going to do just a spoonful of coconut oil in there.
And then we're going to add in some onions.
Onions contain allicin and sulphur, and that's going to help actually de-plaque your arteries.
And then we've got some red bell peppers.
So we've got about a half a cup of onions.
We've got about half a cup here of red bell peppers.
These red bell peppers are full of vitamin C and also antioxidants, and that's what gives
it its red color.
So we're going to dump those in there.
Next thing we're going to do is we're going to add in some seasoning.
We're going to add in a little bit of chile powder in here just to kind of bring out that
southwest flavor.
Just kind of sprinkle that on, and then we're going to add in a little bit of black pepper.
Just go ahead and do a few shakes there.
What we're going to do now is just kind of whisk this together, so we'll just go ahead
and take a fork here and just start kind of mixing all this up here.
Get it nice and mixed up, and again, loaded with nutrients.
You're getting all the vitamins and minerals from specifically, lots and lots of vitamins
and minerals from the red bell peppers, again, the antioxidants there, the egg yolk itself
is loaded with, like we said, vitamin E and Omega 3 fats.
Also, eggs are a great source of protein.
So now that we've got this oil kind of cooking up and warmed up here, we're going to go ahead
and add the eggs in, or the entire mix here.
Now one other thing I want to mention with this, you'll notice here this is not a Teflon
pan, just so you know.
This is ceramic cookware, so it's actually made from glass.
It's ceramic.
Now, a couple other things I want to mention, another good option is using a stainless steel
pan.
Now, it tends to stick a little bit.
If you don't want the egg to stick, you put more oil in it, specifically coconut oil,
and you let it warm up a little bit and then it won't stick as much.
But stainless steel is another good sort of pan.
The pan you want to stay away from is Teflon.
Now, I had to go borrow this from a neighbor, and then I had to give them a lecture about
how they were killing themselves by using Teflon, but Teflon is horrible for your health.
Actually, Teflon pans have been linked to hormonal disorders.
So if your hormones are off, specifically in kids, it's been shown that it's causing
young girls to actually have their menstrual cycles earlier, causing problems in boys.
So again, you want to stay away from Teflon.
It's highly toxic, causes cancer, and it's a hormonal disruptor, endocrine disruptor.
You want to stay away from the Teflon pan.
All right, we've got this egg cooking up here on about medium, medium-high heat, and we're
going to let it cook just another minute or two, and then we're going to add in a few
more things.
We're also going to be adding in avocado.
Avocados are full of Omega 9 fats, known as monounsaturated fats.
We're going to go ahead and just take this avocado here, cut it like this, and then just
take it and split it.
We're just going to go ahead and just take this seed out there, and then what we'll probably
do is just actually make this into slices, like so.
Again, those Omega 9 fats are so important for the health of your joints, for balancing
hormones, and remember, fat is good.
You have bad fat and you have good fat.
Avocado is a good, healthy fat.
Also, we're going to add in some salsa and some black beans.
Just a little tip here about black beans.
That dark color in black beans, those are full of antioxidants.
They've actually shown that one cup of black beans has an ORAC score of 14,000, which is
more than wild blueberries.
So actually, beans, specifically black beans, have more antioxidants than blueberries do.
What we're going to do now is this omelet is getting pretty close to ready to flip,
and so I'm going to come here and we're going to go ahead and flip the omelet.
I did that just like a pro, didn't I?
That was good.
The next thing here, we're going to actually add in some of these avocados.
So we're just going to just go ahead and take the avocados here, just go ahead and lay these
on top, like so.
We're going to make this look nice and fancy.
Going to get it around here like this, and then we're going to go ahead and take these
black beans.
We're going to go ahead and just throw those on top there, and then we're going to take
a little bit of this organic salsa, just get a couple spoonfuls here, and go ahead and
just kind of top it off here, like so.
All right, and that's kind of it.
You have your southwestern omelet.
It's served and ready to go.
Enjoy.