Happy New Year...........CLEAN EATING!
Well, it is New Years Day, 2012 . I sit in Naples FL. staring at the sun gleaming on a very green and perfectly landscaped golf course. I'm not so good at golf but, I do know a bit about what a hole in one is........so I am going to call my NEW YEARS CLEANSING SOUP..................A HOLE IN ONE, because it is one bowl that will get you off to a great start in 2012 phyically, and mentally! Kind of like a hole in one on your first hole on the golf course............makes for a pretty clean start!
Let's get your tired and over indulged body off to a great start with my favorite new cleansing soup recipe. NO, you are not going to do anything crazy like the Kardashians did at a spa episode recently...this is just a normal bowl of soup until you see the ingredients and their detoxifying agents that will make you feel great and make your body love you! Check out the recipe below!
A hole in one 2012 SOUP!
Ingredients:
1 onion chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
8 oz. unpeeled scrubbed ginger zested or minced fine
3 garlic cloves
2 peeled and chopped carrots
salt and pepper to taste
3 boxes of vegetable stock, beef stock or chicken stock...............all work, you pick your flavor.
(or make your own stock, my students know how!).
2 cups shredded cabbage
1 28 oz. can chopped tomatoes
2 cups bok choy chopped
1 can bamboo shoots..........optional...I chop them up and love them for texture.
3 chopped green onions.........garnish
1/2 cup of bean sprouts............optional...( I like them for crunch)
In medium stock pot, put 3 T. olive oil in pan and heat it up. Add onion, celery, carrots, garlic, and ginger................in that order! Cook until onions are transparent. about 5 minutes on medium high heat.
Add cabbage, bok choy, bamboo shoots and stir for 4 minutes. Then add tomatoes and stock selection.
Cook on medium high heat paying close attention for 30 minutes.....stirring a lot. This is to allow all the flavors come together. Then, lower heat to a simmer and simmer for 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours.
To serve, put soup into a bowl, garnish with green onions, and bean sprouts if you wish...and if you like it spicy.............add Sriracha............Chinese chile sauce. Enjoy.
**Note: The ginger provides anti - inflammatory properties, the garlic, and all onions are antioxidents, the cabbage, bok choy are all cleansing vegetables as a natural diaretics. Broth has its many qualities of soothing the body and opening up our air ways with stuffy noses very common this time of year.
Tomatoes are always good for us as natural antioxidents as well. We can only benefit from all of these ingredients. My advice is to eat a bowl or cup of this twice daily before your meal. It will fill you up and give you a lot of vitamins, antioxidents, and anti- inflammatory properties.
Let me know how you like it! ENJOY.
Let's get your tired and over indulged body off to a great start with my favorite new cleansing soup recipe. NO, you are not going to do anything crazy like the Kardashians did at a spa episode recently...this is just a normal bowl of soup until you see the ingredients and their detoxifying agents that will make you feel great and make your body love you! Check out the recipe below!
A hole in one 2012 SOUP!
Ingredients:
1 onion chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
8 oz. unpeeled scrubbed ginger zested or minced fine
3 garlic cloves
2 peeled and chopped carrots
salt and pepper to taste
3 boxes of vegetable stock, beef stock or chicken stock...............all work, you pick your flavor.
(or make your own stock, my students know how!).
2 cups shredded cabbage
1 28 oz. can chopped tomatoes
2 cups bok choy chopped
1 can bamboo shoots..........optional...I chop them up and love them for texture.
3 chopped green onions.........garnish
1/2 cup of bean sprouts............optional...( I like them for crunch)
In medium stock pot, put 3 T. olive oil in pan and heat it up. Add onion, celery, carrots, garlic, and ginger................in that order! Cook until onions are transparent. about 5 minutes on medium high heat.
Add cabbage, bok choy, bamboo shoots and stir for 4 minutes. Then add tomatoes and stock selection.
Cook on medium high heat paying close attention for 30 minutes.....stirring a lot. This is to allow all the flavors come together. Then, lower heat to a simmer and simmer for 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours.
To serve, put soup into a bowl, garnish with green onions, and bean sprouts if you wish...and if you like it spicy.............add Sriracha............Chinese chile sauce. Enjoy.
**Note: The ginger provides anti - inflammatory properties, the garlic, and all onions are antioxidents, the cabbage, bok choy are all cleansing vegetables as a natural diaretics. Broth has its many qualities of soothing the body and opening up our air ways with stuffy noses very common this time of year.
Tomatoes are always good for us as natural antioxidents as well. We can only benefit from all of these ingredients. My advice is to eat a bowl or cup of this twice daily before your meal. It will fill you up and give you a lot of vitamins, antioxidents, and anti- inflammatory properties.
Let me know how you like it! ENJOY.
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