This tasty soup is the perfect remedy if you’re feeling rundown, feel like you’re coming down with a cold or flu or basically as sick as a dog! It’s crammed packed with prebiotic fibre, which your healthy gut bacteria will love and your immune system will thank you. Enjoy!
Serves a small army!
p.s. go organic as much as possible for the maximum nutrient fix!
INGREDIENTS:
Olive oil – 1 Tbs
Garlic, 4 cloves – crushed
Ginger, 5cm fresh root – finely grated
Tumeric, 5cm fresh root (if available) – grated (gloves recommended!) or 2 tsp turmeric powder
Cumin, ground – 2 tsp
Coriander, ground – 1 tsp
Bay leaves, 2
1 brown onion – chopped
1 leek – thinly sliced
3 sticks Celery – chopped
3 Carrots – diced
1 Parsnip – diced
1 Turnip – diced
1 Swede – diced
1 Sweet potato – diced
2 potatoes – diced
Tuscan kale, 1 bunch – washed and finely chopped
Puy lentils ½ cup – rinsed
Black lentils ½ cup – rinsed
Red lentils ½ cup – rinsed
Chickpeas, 400g tin BPA free – rinsed
Chicken bone broth – 1 Lt
Vegetable stock – 1Lt
METHOD:
Heat the olive oil in a large heavy based pot. Sauté the onion, leek, and celery until slightly softened. Then add the garlic, ginger, turmeric, cumin and coriander, fry off for a minute.
Add all of the other vegetables, except the kale (that comes later), and give it all a good sauté to mix through the flavour of the spices.
Add the bone broth and vegetable stock, stir to combine.
Then add the lentils, chickpeas and bay leaves.
Allow to come to a gentle boil, then reduce to a simmer for 1 hour.
Add the chopped kale and allow to cook for another ½ an hour.
Serve and enjoy!