This recipe comes from my Functional Gut Book: The Gut Health Diet. Beetroots are a great source of fibre, folate and potassium. They are also one of the richest sources of glutamine, an amino acid essential to the health and maintenance of our gut. Being rich in fibre, and antioxidants they are useful for supporting a healthy microbiome and being known to support bile flow they may make it easier for the body to absorb and digest fats in the diet.
Serves 2
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
A great light lunch or snack. Packed with antioxidants and fibre as well as naturally rich in glutamine to support gut health. Roasting the beetroot gives the soup a lovely earthy and sweet flavour.
Not keen on beetroot? Use other root vegetables to replace the beetroot – celeriac, carrot and parsnip work really well.
250g beetroot peeled and diced
1 apple, quartered
½ onion, quartered
1 garlic clove
olive oil for drizzling
1tsp cumin seeds
½  tsp ground coriander
½ tsp ground cinnamon
pinch of ground ginger
zest and juice of 1 lime
500ml homemade chicken stock or bone broth
Drizzle
2 sprigs of mint leaves, finely chopped
pinch of sea salt
100g live natural yogurt or coconut yogurt
