Magic Soup: Food for Health and Happiness

by Nicole Pisani, Kate Adams, Regula Ysewijn (Photography)

There is something about soup that has both the ability to revitalise and to soothe. They are packed with nutrition and offer variety, deliciousness and comfort as well as being a fantastic aid for weight-loss. Soup's versatility and health benefits are captured in MAGIC SOUP.Whether it's swapping a stale sandwich at lunchtime for a vibrant bowl full of grains and greens, or relaxing at home over a velvety blend of manuka-honeyed parsnip, cooking for a supper party or nursing a cold - there is always an occasion for soup. MAGIC SOUP features over 100 innovative recipes helping you to feel fuller and become healthier. Recipes such as salmon poached in lemongrass tea, lemon chicken and mint with quinoa, and the ultimate 'chicken soup for the soul' will redefine people's expectations and put paid to the myth that soup cannot be a hearty meal in itself.Nicole Pisani and Kate Adams have all the credentials to create recipes that are utterly delicious and in line with a balanced way of eating.

Genres: Cookbooks, Health, Cooking, Food and Drink, Nonfiction

285 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 12, 2015

Reviews

[Michelle Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is beautiful and so are the soups! I love making soup and I adore eating it. I will make a few of these for myself. I doubt my family will appreciate the creative ingredients but I want to give them a try for myself. First up will be the Yoghurt Soup on Page 90 (pictured on the cover.) Interestingly, there actually is a "Magic Soup." The recipe is on Page 100. The delectable-looking dish is designed to be eaten during the postpartum time of healing. It is loaded with spices and protein.

[Book Grocer · Rating 5 out of 5]

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With over 100 soup recipes, you will not go bored or hungry with this book in your kitchen. Pisani includes broths, stews and cleanses to show that soup isn't seasonal, it's a year-round staple. Try the nettle soup!

Elisa- The Book Grocer

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent cookbook. Many different styles of soup, and lots of invention.

[Danielle Booey]

Magic Soup is not for me. Beautiful pictures but a bit esoteric. I have a hard time calling a bowl of yogurt with a poached egg on it soup.

[Abigail · Rating 5 out of 5]

yum!

[Alexandra Donnelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's clearly written, and the recipes aren't very complicated. And there aren't heaps of ingredients you can't get locally.

One of these soups is actually very cheap: I used mulligatawny soup to get by through my last semester at uni. I rarely had to stock up on more spices, stock, and rice, so most of the time all I had to buy was beef mince and I'd be set for dinner every night for the next fortnight. It's definitely going to be used very often...instead of sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust like my other recipe books usually do.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful, original recipes. I expected difficult recipes with hard to find ingredients from this chef-written book. But the recipes are mostly quite simple and straightforward with few exotic ingredients. Ingredients are combined in unique, interesting ways to create new soups anyone can make.