How to help boost your immunity this flu season and why vitamin d is so important to overall health
Sarah Di Lorenzo is a trusted source of health information.
And on Saturday, she spoke about how to boost your immunity this flu season.
Di Lorenzo says it's important to make sure you get enough Vitamin D.
Recipe below:
EGGS AND SARDINES
Serves 2
Ingredients
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 shallot chopped finely (or 1/2 onion)
1 diced red capsicum
2 cloves of garlic minced
4 eggs
1 can of sardines in oil drained and chopped (125 grams)
Sald and pepper
Chilli flakes to top
1 cup of rocket lettuce
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Heat oil in a fry pan and add the shallot and capsicum and sauté for a few minutes. Add the garlic. Remove from the heat and add the sardines and the four eggs cracked.
Cook in the oven for around 10 minutes or you could cook on the stove top with a lid over the top.
Add the rocket and chilli and enjoy.
Mushroom and turmeric soup
Seres 4 - 6
700 grams of mushrooms, sliced
500 ml chicken stock
1 leek, chopped
2 onions, chopped
1 carrot
250 ml of milk of choice (soy or cows milk)
2 tablespoons of olive oil
2 teaspoons of turmeric
1/4 cup of Greek yoghurt
Salt and pepper
3 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of tamari
Method
Add the oil to a pan with the garlic and onion and sauté. Slice the mushrooms and add with the leek, carrot, tamari, turmeric, salt and pepper and sauté for 5 minutes. Add the stock, milk and bring to the boil and then simmer. Then add the yoghurt and then to a blender.
Serve with fresh herbs, I love chives for this recipe.
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