Green [Superfood] Soup
Now that Winter is (finally) coming to an end, I’m committed to cleanse my body and get ready for Spring. After months of heavy eating and comfort food, its a relief to have a fresh, light, and lemony soup made with homemade broth that is packed with leafy greens and vitamins. Looking for an inspirational detox dish that will jump-start your body’s spring cleaning? You’ve come to the right place. This soup is simple, quick and easy.
Here in Israel, its difficult to come across a large selection of leafy greens. I can always find baby spinach and swiss chard, but I still can’t find kale, or collard greens anywhere (not even at the farmer’s market). For that reason I added broccolini to the soup, because it is actually a cross between broccoli and Chinese kale. If these leafy greens are more accessible to you, I would definitely add regular spinach instead of baby, and add 1/2 a bunch of collard greens. Along with the greens I added a turkey drumstick, leeks, garlic, cubed celery root, lemon juice and garnished with sliced scallions and toasted pine nuts.
What You’ll Need:
2 TBS. Olive Oil
2 Leeks (chopped)
4 Garlic Cloves (thinly sliced)
2 Celery Root bulbs (cubed)
8 C. Filtered Water
1 Turkey Drumstick
2 bunches of Broccolini
4 C. Spinach (baby or regular)
1 bunch of Swiss Chard
1 TBS. fresh Lemon Juice
2 TBS. Pine Nuts (toasted)
Scallions (to taste)
S&P (to taste)
METHOD
Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add leeks, season with S&P. Cook for about 5 minutes. Add garlic and then cubed celery root. After about 2 minutes add filtered water and turkey drumstick. Bring to a bowl, reduce to simmer and allow broth to cook between 30-45 minutes. Remove drumstick (remove meat from bone, and chop into pieces, and add to individual soup bowls, or save for a different purpose.) Add broccolini and cook for 10 minutes. Add greens, and lemon juice and cook for another 5 minutes. Divide among bowls, season with freshly ground S&P, sliced scallions and toasted pine nuts.
Enjoy!
Looks really good! I love the idea of toasted pine nuts as a garnish to the soup. I need to try this recipe!
And of course, the photos are beautiful!
Thanks Mervie 🙂 It was my first time adding pine nuts to soup, and was pleasantly surprised!
I agree! Can’t wait to make some. Thank you for sharing 🙂
How do you think it would taste without the turkey?
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This sounds like amazingly delicious and healthy soup. The photograph is absolutely stunning!! http://cosmopolitancurrymania.blogspot.com
Thank you so much! Definitely try this recipe, its super simple and delish 🙂
Soups are perfect for dotoxing! I feel healthier just looking at this. Fantastic photos, too.
Thank you!
Beautiful pictures! I also have a hard time finding kale in Sweden which drives me bonkers. It’s a cold weather crop! And it’s a cold country! I’d probably try swapping in a miso broth or something instead of the turkey, but I’m excited to give this a try.
Miso is a great idea, I’m a vegetarian so I think I’ll add that in instead of the turkey. Thanks!
I really like broccoli in my tummy
Hey Katie, miso broth is a terrific substitute!
looks divine!
Thanks Scarlett!
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This looks delicious.
definitely looks like a spring cleaning of the temple. lovely photos.
goodness in a bowl. Like it…..a lot!
This looks delicious. Thanks! Lovely photo… makes me think how delicious the soup would be cooked over an open fire while camping!
Wow, I’m going vegetarian again!
Looks refreshingly delicious! I will try! Thank you for sharing.
Peace and love,
Tammy
You make “eating green” look absolutely yummy!
🙂
This sounds delicious and so healthy! I have my greens in a smoothie every morning but when it’s cold out this would be much better! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks, this sounds amazing ( and your great pics make it even better!)
Gosh, it looks so good. Who knew green could look so delicious?
Kathy
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Love your photographs and recipe. I’ll have to try this one.
This soup is really out of this world and the photos are a-m-a-z-i-n-g! 🙂
I want it!
What a beautiful soup! I bet you could grow a nice little crop of kale in a big-enough pot if you’re missing it.
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beautiful pictures, i love green, and it’s healthy. i need more greens in my college tummy
Hey Emily! Thanks for re-blogging!
Sounds delicious! Definitely going to try this soon.
Yum! I’ve been getting back in juicing greens… and have been looking for new ways to jumpstart my health routine again. This looks and sounds fantastic! I will try this out for sure. Thank you.
Also I had no idea that brocclini was a cross between broccoli and chinese kale. Cool!
Have a lovely day!
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Thanks for re-blogging!
I’m in love with food, that comes color coordinated.
I’m in love with the color green.
I’m in love with your images.
Looks really good and easy to make. Just my speed. Thanks for sharing. Connie
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Sounds great. I’m a new follower. Doylene
Looks yummy and your photos are gorgeous!
Delicious. It makes me think that the world might not end, and that I wouldn’t even want to taint myself with dessert after eating your fashionably dressed greens. The pine nuts are just so understated and their color so well coordinated with the leeks. Maybe what we all need is green super food soup, and not oxycontin.
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I needed to reblog this for one reason. I bought a dry miso soup. It was organic, environmentally friendly and all that stuff and it was disgusting:( So the lesson goes back to: cook your food. Look how delicious this soup looks. 🙂 Gin
Thank you for re-blogging!
Looks and sounds healthy and delicious……..I think i’ve seen most of those greens in one of the the food stores here in the Bahamas so I’ll give it a try as son as I can……….Shalom!….Kim
The soup looks wonderful — and the photography is sublime! Mind if I pin it? 🙂
Hey M! Thank you, of course you can pin it!
I am definitely going to have to try this recipe! It looks delicious… And unlike most of the recipes I want to try, my health nut husband would definitely eat that.
Amazing pictures!
This looks so great. Excellent post and recipe!
Yum!
love your shots on the vegetables….
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This soups sounds awesome! It’s filled with lots of deliciousness and yumminess that is good for our bodies. I cannot wait to purchase the ingredients this weekend at the Farmer’s Market and try it out!
Beautiful post with fantastic pictures. Good work. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Italy!
What a fantastic recipe! I am a vegetarian, I am planning on omitting the turkey leg, unless there is another approach…? Also, just curious about the ‘filtered water’, is there a reason for that? I am assuming yes, so I would love to know what that is. Thanks!
Hi Arielle! The reason I listed “filtered water” and not regular water is simply because the tap water in Tel Aviv doesn’t taste very good due to the high mineral content; we have a filter on our faucet. You can use organic vegetable broth instead. As for a vegetarian alternative: I suggest adding mushrooms, they provide the same umami flavor as meat. Katie, one of the other readers, recommended miso broth. Let me know what you choose, and how it turns out!
beautiful post. thanks.
I do appreciate that it’s not only delicious, but also healthy, that combo seems to be rare these days. The photos entice favorably!
This looks delicious. Your blog and photographs are all so beautiful.
Halie
Mmmmm… looks wonderful!
This is such a beautifully photographed post. Love it and I can’t wait to try this recipe out for myself.
I don’t know about there, but eating green soup here isn’t going to detox anything with all the pesticides and gentically modified seeds. Any food you eat in our century is pretty much unhealthy for you.
Hey Mary,
Not sure where you are from, but because Israel is so small much of the produce is locally grown. Once a week I even have the privilege of buying directly from farmers that come down to Tel Aviv to sell their produce.
Thanks everyone for reading! I appreciate all the new comments and support!
Although I live in the Philippines and it isn’t Spring here, I’m still trying this soup! Thanks!
Very nice photos! This is what I have the most problem with – photographing food. You’ve done a superb job!
Gorgeous photos of leafy greens. I can do without the chives myself, but I loved your visual presentation.
ooo, looks really good! Thanks!
I can feel myself jumping out of my skin already …:) It looks fantastic. Thanks.
Funny enough we don’t see Broccolini around here. We do get Broccoli Rabe though. It’ a more pungent, early derivative of the Broccoli we all know.
Bravo! Looks amazing. Great photos by the way.
I like how the toasted pine nuts just adds that extra flavor and a little bit of crunch to the recipe.
Wow, that looks healthy and lite.. I would love to try it since adding pine nuts to soup sounds new to me..
it looks very delicious
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Warm up this winter and be Healthy.
I am going to try this right away! I have all of the ingredents in my organic veggie garden. Thanks a bunch!
This all looks so fresh and crunchy! I have a knack for misjudging my timing and overcooking veg like broccoli, so I’m going to try this out and hope that it tastes as good as your photos look!
I made this avocado soup yesterday…try it!
3 ripe avocados, meat scooped out
3 c. organic veggie broth
3T fresh lemon juice
handful fresh cilantro-this winters over in my garden
1 t. ground cumin
1 t. sea salt
1/4 t. cayenne pepper
Fresh chopped mango for garnish
Place all ingredients into a blender and puree until smooth and creamy. Refrigerate in blender pitcher for two hours. Enjoy with fresh mango garnish. You will love this soup.
Happy Spring!
Wow, It looks very delicious.
I love green, it’s healthy.
Beautiful photos and a lovely recipe!
That’s a refreshing and healthy recipe. I did a recipe few years ago that was a little bit the same but all the vegetables were raw and put it in individual bowls, a boiling broth was stired in the bowls. Tiny drops of olive oil and balsamic vinegar at the end finished a very easy and healthy soup.
Not sure what i need to marvel at..the recipe or the photos. Thanks for sharing this recipe. I gotta get on the spring cleansing wagon myself.
😀
Jen
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This looks amazing! Thanks for the recipe. Do you mind if I share this on Pinterest? You do not have a Pin It button so I wanted to be sure.
Hi Angela! Happy to hear to liked the post– even though I don’t have a Pin It button, you can still share the post on Pinterest! Thanks!
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Fabulous! Ambrosial.
Thank you!
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K. abc posts her culinary oddessy in stunning photographs.
This post is her Superfood Soup – just use a rich gluten-free veggie broth and skip the turkey leg – the basic concept is sound – don’t be dissuaded by the name. We love food going green – one of things that looks beautifully savory and tastes as good as it looks. Check it out. Worth your time!
Thank you, K.
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Thanks Jamie for reblogging this post! I’m glad you liked it.
I can’t wait to try this recipe! Your photos are really beautiful too. Thanks for posting this!
FANTASTIC recipe, and I LOVE the creative way you found a subsitute for kale. (I’m a big kale and collard fan, but it’s pretty easy to find here in the US)
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Such lovely photos!
Sounds yummy! And thanks for the photos. I love a good soup.
Cheers
What a beautiful blog find, and what a great post! Can’t wait to give this a try…
I feel healthier just reading this recipe!! Very nice.
fabulous idea, and well worth it. It is that time to Kickstart health and drop the winter weight.. thank you!
Looks delish. I will try a vegan version without the turkey! I recently made something similar and added pinenuts too, I must say they really add so much to a soup!
Thanks for this! I was just Tweeting about Green Super Foods for Gilda’s Club Greater Toronto on St. Patrick’s day! This is a great addition to share with my followers.
Love the pictures! And finally I see a green recipe for a change 🙂
this looks delicious! i had to google chinese kale….i didn’t know it’s actually what we call gai lan, which is very different from the kale i’m used to seeing.
Can´t wait to try it!
think itz tasty. also think must try to this.
This soup looks fab!
By the way what is S&P?
Thank you! S&P means salt and pepper 🙂
your welcome and thank you:)
It was wonderful! Had to do without the pinenuts but it was food for the body, mind, soul, and pallett. Looking forward to trying more of your recipes!
So happy you enjoyed it!
I’m making this as I type and the house smells lovely! I can’t wait to try 🙂
That is so great Amy! Thanks!
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Just made this amazing super food soup, replacing the turkey drumstick with six chicken drumsticks. AMAZING!
This looks wonderful – healthy, attractive, and beautifully photographed. I see why you have so many followers 🙂
Thank you Vinny!