The Portfolio Diet is a style of eating which combines a group of foods that have been shown to help to lower bad cholesterol in blood. Each food choice is healthy and has blood cholesterol lowering effects on its own, but when you combine the foods and eat them everyday, the effects are even greater.
Example recipe from the portfolio diet:
Broccoli Soup
Ingredients
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 large leek, sliced
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 bay leaf
450g broccoli, chopped
1 pint vegetable stock
300ml soy milk
1 tbsp lemon juice
Pepper
3 tbsp soy cream
1. Sauté the leek, garlic and bay leaf in the oil until the leek is soft. Add the broccoli and the stock. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 10 minutes. Let the soup to cool for a short time. Remove the bay leaf and blend the soup until smooth.
2. Pour the soup back in to the pan and return to the heat. If you want a thinner soup add a little more stock, water or soy milk. Add the pepper, lemon juice, soy cream and serve.
Serve with whole meal bread.
Serves 4