The world's healthiest meal?

London - Planning on eating healthily tonight? Ditch the salad and cook up a curry.

An Indian chef claims to have created the "world's healthiest meal" - a chicken and blueberry curry with goji berry pilau rice.

It blends traditional ingredients feted for their health benefits with "superfoods" said to help stave off everything from cancer to Alzheimer's disease.

A single plate is said to contain as many antioxidants as 49 bowls of spinach, 23 bunches of grapes or nine helpings of broccoli.

Gurpareet Bains, who devised the dish, said: "If eaten regularly, the dish could deal a devastating blow to many diseases."

Bains, a nutritionist and former head chef, spent almost two years perfecting the recipe.

Ingredients include blueberries, which are said to provide cancer protection and guard the brain against the sticky protein that clogs the brain in Alzheimer's.

The pilau rice is flavoured with goji berries, a Himalayan "superfood" full of vitamins A and C and iron. Spices have anti-bacterial and antiviral properties and turmeric is said to help keep hearts, brains and joints healthy. Chilli can help relieve pain.

Chicken was chosen because it is low in fat and has wide appeal. - Daily Mail

• This article was originally published on page 4 of The Star on October 30, 2009