Recipe Category Archives: Garden Vegetable Levana Meal Replacement

Chickpea Kabocha Squash Soup Recipe

By on March 19, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, with Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

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Kabocha Squash Soup is a great Sephardi Favorite.

Kabocha squash is an extremely versatile vegetable. It is my favorite of all squashes because it has the most flavor and meat, and is naturally sweet. If you have kabocha squash leftovers, you can use in omelets, smoothies, and stir-fry dishes.

Nothing easier than roasting a whole Kabocha

Simply roast it whole, skin and all, at 375*F for 1 hour, remove the seeds, and blend. If you intend to use it for another dish (say, roasted slices), take it out half way through cooking, when it is barely soft, half it, scoop out the fibers and the seeds, and slice. Smear the slices with a little olive oil, sea salt and your favorite seasonings (I love it with sage and cinnamon), arrange them in one layer, and cook 15-20 more minutes.

In a pinch, use natural canned pumpkin, marked 100% pumpkin

Be sure to choose a natural brand of canned chickpeas.

Freeze leftover soup by the quart.

You’ll be happy you did!

 

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Cabbage Sauerkraut Soup Recipe

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adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

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My Sauerkraut soup stars cabbage in two forms: Fresh, and Fermented.

I look for every excuse to use the humble cabbage, like in this cabbage sauerkraut soup. Talk about gastronomie sans argent, with nutrition worth its weight in gold.

Cabbage and caraway have a natural affinity, and team up with the potatoes to produce this delightfully funky cabbage soup.

The addition of the fermented sauerkraut in this cabbage sauerkraut soup makes it a wonderfully healthy choice, spreading the cabbage love thicker still, and adds such intense  flavor that the addition of any meat product becomes virtually superfluous. I hope you always welcome, as I do, a delicious vegetarian soup!

I love this cabbage sauerkraut soup nice and chunky, and the clear broth is delightful. However, when kids are involved, I will cream it with an immersion blender. Creaming this cabbage soup is an innocent trick I use to get kids to eat it: while they might discard the ingredients they can spot in the soup, they will greatly appreciate the sum total of all these “controversial” and totally undetected ingredients: Trust me: Tried and true!

If a very low carb soup is what you are after, no problem substituting celery root for the potatoes.

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Roasted Carrot Parsnip Soup Recipe

By on March 19, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

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 Carrot Parsnip Soup

Carrots and parsnips are a flavor marriage made in heaven. Roasting the vegetables is a simple step which intensifies the flavors even further.

Once your vegetables are roasted, your soup is almost ready!

Roasted carrots and parsnips, like all roots, add a pleasing smoked layer of flavor to the finished carrot parsnip soup. So delicious you might be tempted to roast more, and munch on the rest.

Rather than peel the carrots and parsnips, use a vegetable brush to scrub them, so as not to lose their intensely flavored skin.

Root vegetables go beautifully with cinnamon: Don’t skip it!

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Vegetable Chicken Soup Recipe

By on March 19, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

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Vegetable chicken soup is synonymous with childhood memories for me.

We grew up eating it once a week. With the addition of a good whole grain bread, this is a complete meal: in contrast to the traditional clear chicken soup, nothing gets discarded. In short, it’s the perfect comfort food!

Be sure to use chicken thighs here, skin, bones and all.

That’s how you get the wonderful gelatinous texture that forms in the soup and makes it so pleasant.

Do you happen to have lots of leftover turkey bones and scraps, as you often do after a Thanksgiving Dinner? That’s great! Place them all in a giant cheesecloth bag, and close the bag tightly. Then when the soup is done,  squeeze out as much liquids as you can from the cheesecloth bag (don’t open it!) before discarding. You will be left with a turkey chicken soup chock-full of vegetables.

For best presentation, I like to dice my veggies. But sometimes you might find you don’t have time for all that dicing. In that case, I have just the solution for you: Just do as I do most of the time: Shred all the vegetables in a food processor! Your vegetable chicken soup will be every bit as delicious.

Hint: Kids love this soup! Just sayin’! Just help them take out the chicken skin and bones.

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Creamed Zucchini Fennel Soup Recipe

By on March 19, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

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Fennel Soup is pure white silky seduction.

Many Americans have yet to get turned on to fennel soup and fennel in every shape and form!

Hoping this soup will do the trick! Whenever I get a chance to sneak in those veggies that are somewhat neglected in America, and beloved beyond, trust me I am there: So for today, that star stepchild is Fennel! Both Fennel and anise seeds are very frequent players in many of our Moroccan dishes, whether sweet and savory. In addition they make our bread beautifully fragrant. It works its unseen magic and yields a silky texture and a sweet – but not cloyingly sweet – and refreshing flavor.

Cooking fennel in fish and chicken dishes will form a beautiful white saucy firm-tender side dish, while throwing it in salads will add a wonderful crunch. Think of the red white and green trinity, fennel-tomato-basil: It’s fantastic!

The caloric content of fennel is ideally low. A real nutritional bargain too!

We want to keep this fennel soup nice and pale (no colors), a sort of trompe l’oeuil Vichyssoise, therefore be sure you use yellow zucchini.
By the way my fennel soup is good year-round, because it is perfect served hot or chilled.

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