Recipe of the week: Hippocrates soup
The Gerson Therapy eliminates a lot of foods from your diet, but it also states that you must eat certain foods each day. One of those is the special Hippocrates soup, which Gerson patients are instructed to eat twice a day – for lunch and dinner. Lucky for me it’s winter at the moment and I’m often in the mood for soup. I’m sure there will be plenty more hissy fits had at the dinner table during summer when all I want is a fresh prawn and avocado salad. Spare a thought for my poor family.
This soup is surprisingly tasty, but it’s also functional. It’s designed to strengthen the immune system and flush out the kidneys. Who doesn’t need their kidneys flushed?
Hippocrates soup
1 medium celery knob or 3-4 stalks of celery
1 medium parsley root – if available (if not, add extra celery)
garlic as desired
2 small leeks (if not available, replace with 2 medium onions)
1 kilo of tomatoes
2 medium onions
500g potatoes
a little parsley
What to do:
Do not peel any of these special soup vegetables, just wash and scrub them well. Cut the vegetables coarsely. Place vegetables in a four-litre stainless steel pot, cover them with purified water and simmer slowly for 2 hours. Put the cooked vegetables through a food mill in small portions. Vary the amount of water used for cooking according to taste and desired consistency. Add a bit of crushed garlic to serve.
Note: For other recipes that call for soup stock, use the liquid from this special soup.
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hi,
i have a similar diet. in the morning i do the following:
1. 1.5 litres of water
2. after going to the bathroom i drink a litre of apple/celery/cucumber juice
3. then i have some tea to help me swallow my supplements with 2-3 cloves of garlic
in the evening i do the following:
1. drink 2 litres of tomato/cucumber/celery/carrot/onion/capsicum/green pepper juice
2. aerobics with body building
3. supplements before sleep
anything i could be doing to improve this regimen?
@Average Jo Bode Builder
As long as your diet is based around fresh, organic, mostly plant-based whole foods I would say you're on the right track!
Jess
Hey hey,
how many servings does this recipe make?
Hey there! I think it will serve about eight. x
Hi Jess,
I just trialled this soup tonight before I help my mother inlaw with Gerson Therapy. The soup had small chucks of veg thru it, should I strain it?
Thanks for what your doing, all the best xx
Hi Vanessa, did you use a food mill? This should get most of the chunky bits out. It doesn’t matter is there are a few still in it, but it should be mostly liquid. x
Hi Jess,
I did use a food mill, I think it was still a little chunky but it was mostly liquid. I’m sure I’ll get better at it – thanks heaps.
I don’t have a food mill, but I do have a Vita-Mix, could I use that for the soup instead?
Hi Peg, A Vita-Mix would blend the veggies but it wouldn’t remove the fibre the way the food mill does. For Gerson patients we need to have our Hippocrates soup without the fibre.
Hello you gorgeous and inspiring girl.
I just wanted to clarify something. I don’t have a food mill but i’ve a hippocrates juicer, I was wondering if this would work in the same way as a food mill? Then do I add desired amount of water to the milled veges to re-heat and then consume? Is this okay to freeze in portions and are you allowed to freeze juices/food while doing Gerson?
Also, I just wondered if you had any experience helping someone here on the coast with Graves disease (an autoimmune disorder)? Thanks.
Hi Tanya, I’m actually not too sure. I don’t think so though. I am pretty sure the food mill works differently to the juicer. When we re-heat the soup (we are only allowed to do this once – we make soup one day and it will last for two days), we don’t add any more water. We just scoop it into a pot and re-heat on low-med heat. Nope, we aren’t allowed to freeze anything on Gerson. Sorry, no, I haven’t had any experience with Graves disease. Sorry I can’t be more help! ha ha. xx
Hi Jess – I’m so curious about the tomatoes in the soup. The tomatoes I am able to buy in the winter months are surely nothing like the tomatoes that were called for in the original recipe when it was conceived. Do you know if the folks at Gerson have anything to say about hot house, hydroponic or ‘vine ripened’ (whole cluster /picked green for shipping) tomatoes, even if they are labeled organic? They seem so devoid of nutrition!