Top Santé UK – August 2019

COOLING SUMMER RECIPES

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HEALTH | SUMMER NUTRITION

Give these cooling summer recipes a go, as recommended by TCM practitioner Jonquil Westwood Pinto.

GA ZPACHO

Serves 1

■ Stale bread 1-2 slices, soaked in

cold water

■ Tomatoes 300g

■ Red pepper ½, chopped

■ Cucumber ¼, peeled

■ Extra virgin olive oil 1-2 tbsp

■ Garlic ½ clove (to taste)

■ Salt and pepper (to taste)

■ Sherry vinegar ½tbsp

1 Blitz all ingredients in a blender

until smooth. Serve with croutons

and garnished with coriander.

PICK N MIX SALAD

As a general principle

use one or more items

from each category:

■ Lightly cooked veg:

asparagus, purple

sprouting broccoli,

roast caulifl ower.

■ Cooked grains/

legumes: quinoa,

brown or wild rice,

beluga lentils.

■ Salad ingredients:

tomatoes, leafy

greens, cucumber,

radish, red onion

■ Herbs: mint, basil,

oregano.

■ Seeds: pumpkin,

sunfl ower, pine nuts

(lightly dry toasted in

pan), pomegranate

seeds.

■ Protein: boiled egg,

feta, cooked chicken

or tuna.

1 Mix all the ingredients

in a bowl tossed with

olive oil and lemon juice.

Add the seeds last.

WAT E R M E L ON

COOLER

■ Watermelon 150g

■ Lemon ¼, juiced

■ Fresh mint leaves 1tbsp

1 Mash the watermelon in a bowl.

Add the lemon juice. Sieve the

fl uid into a glass. Serve garnished

with fresh mint leaves.

Find more

cooling

summer

recipes

from

Jonquil

at our

website:

topsante.

co.uk TS