Finally, I made an attempt on lettuce soup! I still had a whole head of iceberg lettuce in my fridge and didn't feel like making a salad out of it at all. I'm still into salads these days, but not the plain kind..
On of my colleagues once mentioned she made something like this and said it was really nice. The idea of boiled and pureed lettuce didn't seem too good to me, but I figured I could give it a try. It worked out really well! I loved it, and am certainly going to make it again.
The Easter weekend is coming right up now, so I'm going to head to the supermarket really early tomorrow morning (to avoid the crowds) and start shopping for some good food to cook with. Will let you know how it turned out!
Day 1 without eating fruits and nuts, going really well so far. Yesterday evening I got sick all of a sudden, so I hadn't eaten anything from noon until this morning. Still wasn't too hungry, but I figured I should eat something to get myself started so I had some beef stew with spinach and zucchini which kept me going all morning. I even cycled to the market, still a bit weak-legged but I made it, and got way too enthusiastic while stocking up on the veggies again.
My fridge looks like one colourful food collection, there's cauliflower, beets, daikon, kohlrabi, turnips, carrots, broccoli, brussels sprouts, paprika, purslane and much more. So I better start cooking now before it goes bad.
But first I need to go to the store and buy myself some new containers to store all the meals I'm going to freeze. I just don't have enough of those..
It's been a -long- while since I last made soup. I'm not exactly a soupy kind of person, but I felt like it today. So I made broccoli chicken soup and added a lot of garlic. I liked the taste, but because I didn't add any salt it takes some getting used to.
Therefore I'd recommend trying it the way it is first, and add some salt to your taste if you want to. That will make quite the difference.
But since Paleo means not adding salt to dishes, I don't even have salt at home.. It didn't even come to my mind that this dish might need some salt!
Anyway, here's the recipe so you can judge for yourself. What do you think; salt or no salt?
Broccoli garlic chicken soup (serves 4)
- 1 large head of broccoli
- 1 onion
- 2 leeks
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 500g chicken fillet
- 1 tsp coconut oil
1. Bring 1.5l (6 cups) of water to a boil and add chicken fillet.
2. Boil for 15-20 minutes until cooked through.
3. In the mean time, cut the broccoli and leeks into smaller pieces. Chop the onion and garlic cloves as well.
4. Heat the coconut oil in a large pan and sautee the onion and garlic, until they start getting soft.
5. Add broccoli and leeks and sautee for approx. 5 minutes.
6. When the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken and add the cooking water to the vegetables in the pan. Bring to a boil.
7. Boil for 10 - 15 minutes, until broccoli is soft. In the mean time, shred the chicken into smaller pieces.
8. When the vegetables are soft, puree the soup in a food processor or with a hand blender until smooth.
9. Divide the soup over 4 bowls and serve with shredded chicken. Enjoy while hot!
