Golden milk rice porridge
A bedtime-adjacent pudding: leftover rice warmed in turmeric-spiced milk with honey.
Ginger chicken noodle soup
The 8pm reset: poached chicken, ginger broth, noodles and greens, gentle on hot sleepers.
Ingredients
Servings 4
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Method
- Step 1
Poach the chicken in the stock with ginger, garlic and star anise for 15 minutes; remove and shred.
- Step 2
Strain the broth, return to the pan, and cook the noodles in it 3 minutes.
- Step 3
Add pak choi and carrot for 2 minutes.
- Step 4
Return the chicken with soy; serve topped with spring onions.
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Nutrition per serving
| Calories | 340 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 32g |
| Carbohydrates | 38g |
| – of which sugars | 4g |
| Fibre | 4g |
| Fat | 6g |
| – of which saturates | 1.2g |
| – of which omega-3 | 0.2g |
| Calcium | 90mg |
| Iron | 2.2mg |
| Salt | 1.6g |
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