Immunity boosting soup
Yesterday I woke up with a bad head cold, it really hit me hard and progressed worse throughout the day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Today, I feel 1000x better. Here is how I beat the flu in one day naturally.
I made my favourite soup which is packed full of nutrients for lunch, and sipped on hot lemon, ginger and honey brew throughout the day.
The key to beating a cold is to try knocking it on its head before it takes its toll on you. Unfortunately this one came out of no where, but my immunity boosting soup and honey, lemon & ginger brew recipes still did the trick.
Ingredients
1x thumb of ginger grated (cut off skin)
1/2 thumb fresh tumeric grated (cut off skin)
2 gloves garlic diced finely
6 florets broccoli chopped into smaller bite size florets
1 large red capsicum
2 large carrots (I used 5 smaller farmers market purple and orange carrots for variety)
4 large florets of cauliflower chopped into smaller florets
2 celery stalks chopped into cubes
1 zucchini chopped into cubes
1/2 large onion
1/2 cup quinoa
1/4 cup red lentils
1L vegetable stock
Add water as needed
Chilli flakes to taste
Salt and pepper to taste
1/ 4 lemon juiced
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil ⠀⠀
Method
Bring pot to boil (half filled with water) add lentils, cook for 5 minutes then remove and strain and set aside.
In another pot, Bring to heat then add olive oil, onion garlic. Once the onion is translucent, add ginger, turmeric, all vegetables and salt and pepper.
Stir through for a minute then add vegetable stock, chilli flakes and lemon juice.
Rinse quinoa over a strainer and massage water through the grains thoroughly.
Add quinoa and lentils to the soup.
Add water if needed as the quinoa and lentils soak up the soup.
Cook for 20 minutes or until quinoa and lentils are soft.
