5-2 Recipes For Your 2 Fasting Days (Day 1)

FRAGRANT CHICKEN BROTH

122 calories

This tasty broth somehow manages to be both fresh and warming at the same time. Warning, this is quite hot and spicy, so if you don’t like it too hot, use just one chilli. This broth serves four, so make the whole quantity and freeze three portions for your next fast days.

SERVES 4 • PREP 5minutes • COOK  30minutes

1 litre fresh chicken stock (70 cals)

2 green chillies, deseeded and chopped into rings (2 cals)

6 spring onions (scallions), trimmed and shredded (55 cals)

1 thumb of fresh root ginger, peeled and cut into very thin strips (9 cals)

1 red (bell) pepper, deseeded and cut into strips (51 cals)

2 limes (5 cals)

pinch of ground mace

1 tsp salt

1 tsp nam pla (Thai fish sauce) (4 cals)

1 tsp rice vinegar

1 × 400ml (14fl oz) can reduced fat coconut milk (292 cals)

• Heat the chicken stock with the chillies, spring onions (scallions), ginger and red (bell) pepper. Using a fine grater, grate in the zest of 1 lime. Add a pinch of mace, the salt, nam pla and rice vinegar and simmer for 20 minutes. Juice the limes.

• Stir in the coconut milk and lime juice, and heat for a further 5 minutes until hot and just bubbling. Serve immediately.

• If you like you can add extra ingredients such as mushrooms (13 calories for 100g) or green beans (35 calories for 100g).

Recipe Source:

http://www.52recipes.co.uk/2014/06/30/fragrant-chicken-broth/

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