Lee’s Broccoli Bhajis

3 delicious Ayurveda-inspired recipes to try this week

by Lee Holmes March 9, 2017

3 delicious Ayurveda-inspired recipes to try this week

By: Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes shares three delicious Ayurvedic-inspired recipes for Autumn

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Ingredients

300g besan (chickpea) flour
2 tbsp brown rice flour
Pinch bicarb soda (baking soda)
Himalayan salt, to taste
500mL filtered water
Extra-virgin coconut oil, for shallow-frying
120g broccoli florets

Method

Sift the flours, bicarb soda and salt into a medium bowl. Gradually add the water, stirring well to avoid lumps. The mixture should have a smooth, paste-like consistency.
Heat some coconut oil (about 4cm deep) in a medium, heavy-based saucepan over medium–high heat. Once the oil is hot (a small broccoli floret should sizzle and float), working in batches, dip the broccoli florets in the batter to coat well. Drop into the pan and cook until crisp on all sides. Lay on paper towel to drain off any excess oil while you cook the next batch.
Serve warm with chia jam and carrot and beetroot raita (you’ll find the recipes in my book, Eat Right for Your Shape).

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#Tags: ayurveda, Health, healthy diet

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.