YUMMY!!!!!

What it will do for you:

Butternut Fennel, Ginger & Garlic Soup is warm, tasty, feeling good in our Tummies, whilst offering immune and circulatory health support.

This is also a great comfort food to have when you are either wanting to avoid colds, flu, sinus or Hayfever issues.

It is a great comfort food that will not only nurture your very soul but has the additional benefits of supporting weight loss, healthy liver and will assist detoxification.

The mild spices have a balancing effect on the circulation and the heart.

Let's start Cooking:

Ingredients:

1/4 -1/2 tsp.. Black Pepper

½ - 1 Butternut Pumpkin

1 Horseradish

2 tsp. Fennel Seeds

5 cloves Garlic

2 tbsp. Coconut Oil

1 tbsp. Olive Oil

2 tsp. Grated Fresh Ginger

1 Lime squeezed, also add grated rind from the lime

2 onions chopped

2 tsp. Massel Chicken or Organic Chicken Stock or 1 litre if Liquid stock

2 litres of Filtered water or cover vegetables with water for a thicker soup

Preparation:
1.Roast the butternut pumpkin and horseradish in the oven at 200 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove and let cool. The skin will peel off easily with a potato peeler after roasting. When it cools, chop the butternut squash into cubes.
2.Heat coconut and olive oil in a large stock pot. Add diced onions, ginger and garlic to pan then sauté until lightly golden. Add pepper and fennel seeds. Add the butternut pumpkin, horseradish stirring through, now add stock and water: if using liquid stock you may only need 1 litre of filtered water. Bring to a boil.
3.Reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook for about 20 minutes. Then mash with a potato masher, or puree in a blender. Squeeze the juice of half a lime into the finished soup.
4.Serve hot with some wonderful wholegrain or spelt bread!

Garnish with some chopped chives or dill

Further Nutritional Support

Empowering You to Optimal Health Julie Doherty N.D

Author's Bio: 

Hi I’m Julie,

Your Health & Lifestyle Coach Specialist
(Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine)

I learnt very early in my life that there was much more to health than meets the eye

To achieve “Optimal Health” is about taking control of every aspect of YOU and YOUR LIFE:

That “Optimal Health” is only possible when we understand the unity of our mind, emotions connections to our physical body then our soul that inner voice that knows what is good and not good for us: Not to aim for Perfection but for Connection.

I love to work with people who dedicated who want to succeed in all areas of their life with the understanding that "Health is the very foundation for this to be possible"

So for over 26 years, I have worked with thousands of people in clinical practice prescribing herbal & homoeopathic remedies: implementing dietary changes so as to accommodate the best nutrition and life balance possible:Group and individual Health & Lifestyle Coaching to achieve the Happiest, Healthiest and Most Successful Life Possible.

My Professional Qualifications include Diplomas in Naturopathic, Herbal: Homoeopathic & Nutritional Medicine: Remedial & Therapeutic Massage Therapy: Body Mind Balancing Cognitive Counselling, Life Coaching & Massage: & Natural Beauty:

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Accredited Member of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society