Beans, Main Dishes, Soups

Tuscan bean soup

This soup is a variation of the Tuscan bean soups from the Tuscany region of Italy. Along with cooked white beans, I made it with onion, carrots, celery, garlic, farro, ripe tomatoes and tomato pulp, herbs and lots of fresh spinach. To keep it all tasty and Mediterranean, I sautéed the vegetables, herbs and farro […]

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Main Dishes, Soups

Pumpkin Apple Soup

This is a simple soup made with basic fall ingredients: pumpkin; apple; onion; garlic; and vegetable stock or broth. You don’t need to add any cream. When blended with the pumpkin flesh, the apple gives the soup the perfect texture and taste. However, be sure to use the following ratio of apple to pumpkin flesh: […]

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Condiments and Sides, Main Dishes, Soups

Cucumber Melon Gazpacho

This gazpacho is light, velvety, tasty and cool. It’s the perfect mid-day meal during the heatwaves that many of us are experiencing these days. I recommend adding some roasted garlic cloves. Roasted garlic lends a smokey yet milder taste than raw garlic and it blends well with this soup. In this recipe, I added 5 roasted […]

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Lentils, Main Dishes, Rice, Soups

Lentil, rice and bok choy soup

Made with brown lentils, brown basmati rice, carrots, celery and bok choy, this one-pot soup is a complete healthy meal in a bowl. One serving will give you all the plant protein and phytonutrients that you need. Bok choy is a leafy Chinese cabbage that tastes like a fusion of celery, spinach and mild peppery […]

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Beans, Main Dishes, Soups

Mushroom, black bean and barley soup

This plant-based soup, which is almost like a stew, is made with mushrooms, black beans, barley and basic vegetables. It is so good! Filled with savoury umami flavours, it is the perfect meatless winter meal in a bowl. If you don’t eat meat, black beans will provide you with plenty of plant-protein, fibre, vitamins and […]

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Main Dishes, Soups

Roasted cauliflower soup

Smooth, fluffy, light and creamy without the dairy cream, this soup is world class. If you are going to make a cauliflower soup, I highly recommend that you start by roasting the cauliflower in your oven. Roasting it brings out those nutty, savoury and caramelised flavours in the vegetable. For an extra creamy soup, I […]

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