Immune Boosting Rainbow Veggie Soup

This recipe is from one of our wonderful friends and former podcast guest, Laura Orbe a.k.a Healing Thru Nutrition. Laura is a nutrition coach and vegan chef that helps people transform their cooking and eating habits for the better!

We had an amazing conversation with Laura bout the brain and gut connection and what foods are best to eat to support them on our podcast. You can listen to that episode here!

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Bring some color into your food world. Let’s face it, beige is boring!

Eating fruits and vegetables of different colors boosts your immune system and your brain health. When you take care of your brain health, you're taking care of your gut health which impacts your entire body.

The different colors represent different phytonutrients to help keep all of our systems healthy and working properly.

Red soaks up damaging free radicals.

Orange promotes healthy joints.

Greens boost our immune system.

Purples fight inflammation.

Ingredients:

• 2 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 tbsp of ginger, minced

• 4 1/4 cups of vegetable broth

• 1/2 red onion

• 3 carrots

• 3 celery stalks, diced

• 3 carrots, diced

• 1 cup of diced tomatoes

• 1 cup red cabbage

• 4 cups broccoli flortets

• 2 cups of kale

• Half of a lemon, juiced

• 1/4 tsp. cinnamon

• 1 tsp. turmeric

• Pinch of cayenne pepper

• Salt and pepper

Instructions

1. Sauté 1/2 red onion and 2 cloves garlic in 1/4 cup broth till soft

2. Add celery, carrots, tomatoes, and minced ginger. Sauté for 3 minutes.

3. Add turmeric, cinnamon, a pinch of cayenne, salt, pepper, 4 cups veggie broth and 2 cups water. Cook 10 minutes.

4. Add broccoli florets, kale, and red cabbage. Cook for a few minutes.

5. Add lemon juice.

We love how simple this recipe is! Tons of flavors from all of the best foods. The best part is that these veggies are going to benefit your body in more ways than one.

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