Basic Thai curry

Ingredients:

• 1 tin of thick coconut milk, min. 90% coconut (e.g. Lidl’s)

• 2 table spoons of green or red curry paste

• Fish sauce or soy sauce, amount to your preference (try 2 tea spoons)

• 1 flat table spoon of coconut or peanut oil

• 1 tea spoon of sugar, preferably coconut or palm but any unrefined will do. If you are on a low carb diet, you can try xylitol or erythritol

• Protein of choice, e.g. chicken, prawns or tofu

• Vegetables of choice, e.g. diced courgette, mushrooms, pan fried aubergine, green beans, red bell pepper (only one veg of choice is also fine - pick what works for you)

• Optional: chopped peanuts, fresh chilli, 5 basil leaves, wedge of lime, coriander

Method:

1. Heat up the oil and add curry paste. Heating it up will liberate the aroma.

2. Add coconut milk, fish or soy sauce and sugar.

3. Add protein, vegetables of choice and optionally basil leaves and cook just until the protein has set (chicken will turn white and prawns will be pink)

4. Plate the curry and optionally squeeze a wedge of lime and garnish with chopped peanuts, fresh chilli and basil leaves.

5. Serve with jasmine rice or ‘caulliflower rice’ or have it on its own.

Asian style soup

Ingredients for 1 portion:

• 1 mug of any meat stock or bone broth, home made or shop bought

• 100g of protein of choice (sliced chicken breast, thinly sliced steak, prawns, tofu), can be precooked - leftover roast or steak

• 2 cloves of garlic, minced

• 1-2 table spoons of soy sauce (tamari is my preference as it’s wheat free)

• 1 table spoon of tahini (optional but it lifts the flavour)

• A big handful of vegetables of choice: bok choi / green beans / menge tout / carrot / bell pepper / mushrooms (shiitake are a great fit) / spring onions / fresh chilli, you can also use a ready made stir fry veggie mix from a supermarket

• Optional spices: 2 cloves, 1 star anise, 1 cinnamon stick, 5 coriander seeds (throw in whichever of these you’ve got)

• Optional garnish: a wedge of lime, fresh coriander, sesame seeds

Instructions:

1. Bring the meat stock to a slow boil. Add soy sauce, garlic and tahini. Stir and add the protein of choice and vegetables. Cook until the protein has set. Veggies should still be crunchy. If you are using protein that has already been cooked, add it last to just warm it up.

2. Garnish with a squeeze of lime and fresh coriander.

Serving suggestion: with rice noodles / 100% buckwheat soba noodles / courgette ‘noodles’

Indian style lentil soup

Ingredients:

• 1- 1,5 litres of meat or vegetable stock

• 200 ml of coconut milk

• 1 large onion, finely chopped

• 2 carrots, diced

• 2 potatoes, diced

• 1/2 cups of green lentils, preferably soaked overnight or from a jar, rinsed

• 1 small bag of baby spinach or a couple of cubes of frozen spinach cubes

• 3 table spoons of tomato puree

• 1 tea spoon of each: turmeric, cumin powder, garam masala, fenugreek

• 2-3 cloves of garlic

• 2 table spoons of ghee or coconut oil

• Salt, to taste

Optional: 1 red chilli, finely sliced

Method:

1. Melt ghee or coconut oil and saute onion until brown

2. Add all spices and garlic, saute for 3 minutes

3. Stir in carrots, saute for 1 minute

4. Add stock, potatoes, lentils and tomato puree; cook for 20 minutes

5. Add coconut milk and spinach (cook until wilted or defrosted); season to taste

Tomato soup with extra protein

Ingredients:

• 2 carrots

• 2 celery sticks

• 2 onions

• 1-2 cloves of garlic

• 2-3 slices of quality bacon or pancetta, sliced

• 5 table spoons of olive oil

• 700ml of meat stock

• 1 bottle of of passata (around 700g) or 2 tins of chopped plum tomatoes, with juice (400g each)

• handful of fresh basil leaves

Instructions:

1. Finely chop all vegetables and dice the pancetta. Place in a soup pot and sauté in in olive oil on medium heat for 10 minutes.

2. Add stock and tomatoes, and cook everything for 15 minutes.

3. Take off the heat, add basil leaves and blend until smooth.

   Serving suggestions:

   • with with extra bacon bits, 2 slices of buffalo mozzarella and a drizzle of olive oil

   • with 2 quartered leftover meatballs, a handful of grated Parmesan and a drizzle of olive oil

Detox soup

Ingredients:

• 1 litre of meat stock / bone broth / vegetable stock or water with quality stock cubes like Marigold

• 2 table spoons of ghee or olive oil

• 2 celery stalks, roughly chopped

• 350g of broccoli florets (fresh or frozen)

• 200 grams of spinach (fresh or frozen)

• 130g of frozen peas

• 1 onion

• handful of mint leaves or fresh dill or both

  My favourite toppings: chopped hard boiled eggs + chopped avocado + crumbled feta cheese + pumpkin seeds (you can use all of them together or either, depending on your preferences)

  You can increase your protein intake by adding 1 serving of collagen protein powder

Method:

1. Melt ghee or oil in a pot

2. Add all vegetables and sauté until soft

3. Add stock and and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes

4. Season with salt and pepper

5. Optionally, add mint or dill or both

6. Blend

7. Garnish with toppings or preference and enjoy

About the soup

This delicious ‘eat your greens soup’ focuses on both phases of liver detoxification and healthy bile flow, which require the following nutrients:

• protein

• fat

• fibre

• sulphur

• B vitamins, especially folate

• magnesium

The soup has it all. It is specifically good to support methylation (e.g. lowering homocysteine or clearing out excess oestrogens) and the skin. Great for children who don’t like green vegetables.