Cleansing Recipes
Creamless Spinach Soup
This simple soup will revitalize your system as part of a Detox diet.
Servings: 2
Ingredients:
1 pound of spinach
1/2 cup diced onion
1/2 cup diced carrots
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 cup diced leek
3 cups water
1/2 teaspoon Thyme
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon chopped garlic
Recipe:
Sauté the onions, carrots, celery, leek in a pot with the oil and garlic.
Add the water and Thyme, simmer for one hour then leave to cool for one hour.
Puree in a blender, then put back in the pot on medium heat.
Add the spinach, cook until it wilts, and serve hot!
Cleansing Vegetable Broth
Many people believe that foods rich in the alkaline minerals sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium help to neutralize toxic acids that can harm the body. This soup is overloaded with all those ingredients and should help you feel great!
Ingredients:
2 cup carrot tops
2 cups celery tops
2 cups beet tops
2 quarts distilled water
3 cups celery stalk
3 cups water
2 cups red skinned potato peeling 1/2 inch thick
1 small zucchini
Recipe:
Chops all the vegetables into small pieces. Place them in a pot and bring to the boil.
Reduce heat and simmer, with the lid on, for 30 mins.
Poached Red Snapper on Kale with Red Pepper Coulis
Did you think that cleansing food needs to be bland and tasteless? Well here's the proof that its not!
Servings: 2
Ingredients:
6 four-ounce pieces of red snapper
juice of one lemon
1 teaspoon peppercorns
1 bay leaf
3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons garlic, chopped
2 pounds of kale
2 red peppers
1 cup basil
Recipe:
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Place the snapper pieces in a shallow baking tray, covered with water, and add
the lemon juice, peppercorns and bay leaf. Place in the oven for 30 mins.
While the fish is cooking, sauté the kale with olive oil and garlic. Place the kale on plates - this is the base of the dish. Now broil the peppers until blackened. Remove the skin and seeds, dice, and sauté the pieces with olive oil and basil. Allow to cool and puree.
To complete the dish, divide the Kale between 6 plates. Place the fish on top, and drizzle the coulis!
Warm Broccoli Soup
This hearty and filling soup is all goodness, and it tastes great too!
Servings: 2
Ingredients:
1/2 Avocado
6 -8 Decent size Broccoli Heads
1/3 Red Onion
1 Celery Stick
Big Handful of Spinach
An Inch of Root Ginger
Recipe:
Lightly steam the broccoli, for 5-6 minutes. Place it and all the other ingredients in a blender.
Add garlic, salt and pepper to taste.