soup

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.

Detox soup

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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.