Recipe
Morning Mineral Broth
A quick vegetable broth for people who cannot do bone broth. Salty, warm, and gentle at 7 a.m.
- Time
- 25 minutes
- Yield
- Makes 4 cups
Why it works for me
Long-simmered bone broth is high in histamine for a lot of us. This gets the minerals and the ritual without the flush, and it simmers for under half an hour on purpose.
Ingredients
- 1 leek, split and washed
- 2 carrots, roughly chopped
- 1 small fennel bulb, quartered
- 1 large piece of kombu (about 4 inches)
- 6 cups filtered water
- 1 tsp good sea salt, plus more to taste
- Fresh thyme, a few sprigs
- Olive oil, for finishing
Method
- 1Put everything except the salt and olive oil in a pot and bring to a bare simmer.
- 2Simmer 20 to 25 minutes, uncovered. Do not go longer — short is the point.
- 3Strain, salt generously, and finish each mug with a spoon of olive oil.
- 4Cool what you are not drinking and freeze it in single-cup portions within the hour.
I drink this instead of coffee on the mornings my heart rate is already high.
Histamine tolerance is individual. Please adapt anything here to your own body and your own practitioner's guidance — I'm sharing what works in my kitchen, not prescribing.
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