Keen triathlete and healthy eating chef, we spoke to Kit Davis from The Wellington Hotel, Boscastle, about his favourite way to stay fit and healthy without missing out on satisfying platefuls of good food. “I am a keen triathlete and, when not at work in The Wellington kitchen, I love to get out into the beautiful Cornish countryside for some hard exercise. Exercise is great for your well-being but just as important is to match this with a balanced healthy diet. An ideal dish for a post-training meal is something high in protein to help your muscles recover, together with salt to replace that lost in fluid and a little bit of carbs.
Any post-training meal needs to be easy and simple as you’ll be tired when you come back. You also have an optimal time frame of nutritional recovery of 30 mins. My go to dish is a Spanish omelette with sweet potato, kale, chilli and ginger. If you can, add some lime crushed avocado to cool the mouth and add some good fats for your joints, then great.
Before setting out to train, slice up a sweet potato nice and thin, and bring it to the boil in a pan, then turn it off and pop a lid on it. Once back home, fry off a little bit of chopped garlic, ginger and chilli in a frying pan, add the kale and lightly season with salt. Meanwhile, whisk three eggs with a touch of salt. Once the kale is wilted, drain the sweet potato and add to the pan (it doesn’t matter if it breaks up a bit), stirring and smashing it up, then add the eggs and allow it to colour. To cook the top side, put the pan under the grill for a while. You will know it is ready once it’s all set.
While the omelette is under the grill, get a ripe avocado and crush with the juice of one lime and a pinch of salt. Serve a slice of your delicious Spanish omelette with a spoon of avocado – a full balanced healthy meal that shouldn’t take you too long.”