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Diet Leek Soup with Thyme

This leek soup with fragrant thyme is an age old slimming trick amongst French women. Light and delicious, this diet leek soup acts as a natural diuretic helping your body to expel excess water.

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Sesame Spinach

This super quick vegan spinach recipe is such a deliciously simple way to enjoy spinach. This is nutrient-packed vegan spinach recipes is the perfect side dish. Pair it with rice, tofu, salmon, grilled chicken, or steak. The sesame neutralises any bitterness from the spinach making it appealing to even the most resistant palates

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Zucchini and Basil Soup

This zucchini and basil soup is green and fragrant - this delicious soup recipe is one of my go-to suppers. This healthy soup is bursting with healthy fibre, vitamins, and minerals. Ready in no-time this zucchini and basil soup is an easy supper. Choose smaller zucchini for a sweeter and more delicate flavour.

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Roasted Romesco with tahini and hazelnuts

This whole roasted romanesco recipe is a show stopper, especially when you have vegan guests. The flavour that romanesco takes on when roasted is nuttier and crunchier that it’s cauliflower and broccoli cousins. If you can’t get romanesco this recipe also well with cauliflower.

Often called romanesco broccoli or romanesco cauliflower, romanesco is a hybrid believed to be created by Italian farmers in the 16th Century. it’s fractal appearance, making it look almost like a Fibonacci Christmas tree.

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Spinach, Watercress and Avocado Soup

This bright green soup is literally bursting with vitamins and minerals. It’s easy to make and is such a nourishing immunity booster. Spinach is, of course, an excellent source of iron. Peppery watercress is powerhouse leafy vegetables, particularly rich in Vitamin K (Potassium) as well as vitamins A, E, and C, folate, calcium, and iron Studies have identified its antioxidant and phytochemicals as being helpful in the fights against cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis

The addition of the avocado makes for a smoother creamier soup as well as bringing all the good fats, vitamins of the little green nutrient bombs.

Beware - It took me a while to get this soup right as the watercress needs to be blanched in boiling water to remove its bitterness.

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