Retreat Remedies Recipes
Nourish your body and soul with our collection of healthy, hormone balancing, gut-friendly recipes. Designed to support digestion, boost well-being, and bring balance to your plate.
Golden Corn Chowder
Ingredients:
2tbsp olive oil
2 leeks, washed trimmed thinly sliced
Pinch Salt
4 clove garlic - chopped finely
2 tbsp Retreat Remedies Golden Goodness (if you don’t have just 1tsp turmeric powder)
1/2 tsp chilli flakes
1 Cauliflower
1kg Bag Frozen Sweetcorn
2 tins Coconut Milk
400m water
Bunch Spring onions
Cauliflower greens
Pumpkin Seeds
1tsp chopped dried Seaweed (optional for extra nutrition and umami flavour)
1tbsp Tamari
Put the olive oil in the pan, and start to sweat off the leeks for 5-10 mins with the pinch of salt. Add hot water to the seaweed to cover and soak if you have it set to one side. Then add the turmeric (Golden Goodness) and garlic to the leeks for a further few minutes, as you chop the cauliflower into small florets and add them to the pan (keeping the cauliflower greens to one side). Then add the bag of frozen sweetcorn to the pan. Add the coconut milk and then add the seaweed stock for more nutrition, measure it out in the tins to wash them out about another 1-2 tins worth of liquid, enough so the veg is all covered with at least a inch or two of liquid above. Bring to a simmer and cook until the cauliflower is soft, add lots of salt and pepper, take off the heat and use a stick blender to blitz up to a nice chowder texture.
Chop the cauliflower greens into small chunks and pan fry for a few minutes then add the spring onions. Add the seaweed and a splash of Tamara. Then for the final few minutes add in the pumpkin seeds til they start to pop. Add this lovely mixture of flavour and texture to the top of your golden chowder and enjoy.
Method:
Fiery Smokey Beans
Ingredients:
2tbsp olive oil
1 red onion
2tbsp sun dried tomato
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 tsp cumin powder
1tbsp smokey chipotle paste (optional)
1tbsp Retreat Remedies Fire Fighter Choppings (optional)
1/2 jar sun-dried tomatoes
1/2 Jar Roasted Red peppers (optionl)
3 tins Beans of your choice I used mixed and butter beans
I tin of chopped tomato
1jar/carton tomato passata
salt and pepper to season
Hot sauce if you want more fire
Method:
Soften the onion, sun-dried tomato in a pan with the olive oil for 5-10mintes. Add the spices, paste, , Fire Fighter and red peppers if using and give it another 2-3 minutes. Add the chopped toms and tomato passata and let flavours infuse and heat through for about 5 minutes. Add beans of choice to bulk out. Season to taste and serve…I like to serve with avocado for those healthy fats and serve on life changing loaf...see below.
Life Changing Loaf
Ingredients:
1 & 1/2 cup oats
3/4 cup sunflower seeds
3/4 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup linseeds (ideally blitz to digest better)
3 tbsp chia seeds
3 tbsp physillium husk
3 tbsp melted coconut oil
1 tbsp maple syrup (optional)
Pinch salt
1 & 1/2 cup water
Method:
I sometimes add fresh herbs like rosemary or some fennel or nigella seeds for more flavour, but these are optional.
Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl, mix well add the water and coconut oil at the end mix together and leave a few minutes, then place in a silicone loaf tin and leave for at least 20 minutes. Sometimes I leave overnight to fully soak and set. Place in oven on 180c for 25minutes then tip out of silicone or tin onto baking tray and leave in oven for another 35-40 mins. Leave to cool before trying to slice. If you don’t eat it all in one go, slice and wrap individually and freeze. Perfect to pull out and toast a few times and serve with soup or for brunch with toppings of your choice.
If you’re wanting to try seed cycling to support your hormones, you can use a mix of sunflower and sesame instead of sunflower and pumpkin and eat this in the nurture phase (10 days before bleed due to start) of your cycle.
Then switch to pumpkin and linseeds (grind these) once you start your period and enjoy this in week 1 and 2 of cycle to boost relevant hormones.
There are many podcasts available to listen to about seed cycling and how this can help support up the right nutrition and the right time of your cycle to support the production of hormones. I have done this went felt out of balance or suffering with symptoms and found it has helped. Like anything when we feel empowered that we can support our health through what we eat we are taking responsibility, eating well and giving ourself more energy.
I buy all of my dried ingredients from a company called BuyWholefoods I think they are brilliant and they sell physillium husk which is tricky to find. I have a discount code for 10% off enter at check out BWFO-INF-RETREATREMEDIES10
