Enter your email & we’ll send it to your inbox. Plus, get great new recipes from us every week! By submitting this form, you consent to receive emails from Hurry the Food Up. Becoming more and more well-known in the US and UK (they even went through the inevitable ‘superfood’ phase a couple of years back) they’re truly an incredible addition to any diet. Eaten raw or cooked, they’re damn healthy and are stocked with nutrients, fiber and vitamin C, no cholesterol and negligible fat. More about the health benefits later. In case you’re still not sure what you’re looking for – here’s a lovely picture Howie took to help me describe it. It’s worth a thousand words 🙂 It seems they’re easy to find world wide these days – most supermarkets will stock them, and if your local doesn’t then the next organic/health store certainly should. When you’re buying bear in mind that the white or greenish variety tend to be sweeter, the purple slightly more bitter. Whichever colour you plump for, they somehow compliment carrots perfectly. If they were in a club then carrot would already be fetching her coat. This soup is a very rustic, simple one and it’s really quite astounding that it tastes so good! The natural sweetness of the carrots and kohlrabi are offset by the cream cheese (low fat ofc!), and the parsley adds that extra edge. Oh and it’s so easy, you can’t go wrong.
Health Benefits – Lean Kohlrabi Carrot Soup
The name ‘kohlrabi’ comes from two German words put together – ‘cabbage’ (Kohl) and ‘turnip’ (Rübe), and it’s possibly healthier than both. Just 100g of it is your Vitamin C for the day, and it’s also high in dietary fiber and potassium while being low in fat and cholesterol. Potassium is extremely important to humans – we need it to get rid of sodium and lower blood pressure. As this Harvard report explains, we need a good balance of a high potassium and low sodium intake – and the average American’s diet is the opposite. Kohlrabi helps to rectify this. Time to get munching! 🙂
