Very Vegie Curry
Indian cuisine, with its liberal use of health-promoting spices, is one of my primary culinary inspirations. Spices lift everyday vegetables and legumes to great culinary heights – and offer powerful antioxidants and cancer-preventing phytochemicals too. Ingredients: 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced 2 cm piece of fresh ginger, peeled and minced 1 large onion, peeled…
Vegan Cucumber Raita
I love a good curry with all the accompaniments, but I’d rather have my cucumber raita without the pus cells, cancer-promoting IGF-1 and artery-clogging saturated fat found in yoghurt. So I developed this delicious alternative, featuring iron- and zinc-rich cashews. Ingredients: 80 g raw, unsalted cashews 100 ml water Juice of 1 lemon or…
Shiitake Mushroom Sauce
Shiitake mushrooms are packed with cancer-fighting phytochemicals, and have a delicious ‘meaty’ texture. Ingredients: 3 cups shiitake mushrooms, coarsely chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 spring onions, minced 2 tsp ginger root, minced 1 cup water 1 tbsp rice vinegar 2 tsp Dr Fuhrman’s VegiZest or other no-salt seasoning Method: Sauté all sauce…
Pistachio Mustard Dressing/Dip
Pistachios are extremely rich in antioxidants. Their ability to significantly improve erectile dysfunction has led to them being christened ‘the love nut’ :). Ingredients: 1 1/3 cups water – or more for a thinner dressing 1 cup raw, unsalted pistachio kernels 6 tbsp lemon juice 2 tbsp ground linseed/flaxseed 1 tbsp Dr Fuhrman’s VegiZest…
Eggplant Hommous
Adding baked eggplant to hommous increases the antioxidant content and decreases the kilojoule content of this Middle Eastern staple… which means you can eat more :). Ingredients: 1 medium eggplant 1 cup cooked chick peas 2 tablespoons tahini 1-3 cloves garlic, to taste 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp smoked paprika Juice of 1-2 lemons…
Mushroom and Black Bean Soup
Shiitake mushrooms give this soup a lovely chewy texture, along with cancer-fighting phytochemicals. Leeks, garlic and seaweed are also powerful cancer-fighters. Black beans are rich in resistant starch – perfect for diabetics and those who need to lose weight! Ingredients: 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 leeks, trimmed and sliced 1 cm thick 200 ml water…
Hearty Winter Vegetable Soup
In winter I make huge batches of soup. We eat it for dinner, then my children take leftovers to school in a thermos for lunch, for the next few days. My soups are a whole meal in a bowl. Blending the green leafy vegies in this recipe not only allows me to get much larger…
Creamy Cauliflower and Mushroom Soup
Shiitake mushrooms give this soup a lovely chewy texture, along with cancer-fighting phytochemicals. Cauliflower and leek complete the cancer-fighting triumvirate. Ingredients: 400 g sliced mixed fresh mushrooms (I used button and shiitake) 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 tsp dried thyme 1 tsp dried rosemary 2 cups water 1 carrots, coarsely chopped 3 cups cauliflower…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake
In my family, we have a word for healthy dishes that taste so good you’d think you were eating something bad for you! We call them ‘EVIL’. This pie is wonderfully evil. Warning: it’s rich – just a small slice will satisfy your sweet tooth. Ingredients: Crust 1/2 cup hulled hemp seeds 1/3 cup whole…
Choc-cherry ‘Yoghurt’
This delicious non-dairy yoghurt combines the benefits of polyphenol-rich cherries, blueberries and cacao, with the cancer-fighting lignans in linseed. Ingredients: 1 cup frozen dark cherries 1 cup frozen blueberries 1½ cups non dairy milk e.g. hemp milk, oat milk, almond milk, or whole bean soy milk 1 tbsp cacao (raw chocolate powder) 2 tbsp ground…