Your New Go-To Breakfast For Gut-Skin Healing: Mushroom Buckwheat Bowl

This Buckwheat Breakfast Bowl with Leeks and Crispy Mushrooms is a gut-skin axis powerhouse. Research shows that buckwheat can significantly reduce cholesterol concentrations in the gallbladder, blood and liver, enhancing bile acid synthesis and helping improve digestion and absorption, plus excretion of the liver’s detoxification products (Murray & Pizzorno, 2012). Cooked in collagen-rich chicken broth and topped with immune-enhancing mushrooms and leeks that support your liver’s phase-II detoxification, adding this to your breakfast rotation will get your skin glowing from the inside out. With a sprinkle of non-dairy parmesan and dollop of luscious almond cream, you won’t miss the dairy.

Get this ready on your meal prep day and you’ll have a hearty breakfast ready to grab-and heat. Here’s what you do:

Gather your ingredients. (This makes one serving, so to prep for later days, double it or more.)

• 1/2 cup water

• 1/2 cup Chicken Stock

• 1/2 tsp salt

• 1/4 cup buckwheat cereal (Bob’s Red Mill)

• 3 oz shiitake mushrooms

• 1/2 small leek

• 1/2 tbsp ghee

• Pepper to taste

• 1 tbsp Non-Dairy Parmesan

• 2 tbsp Almond Cream

1. Bring water, Chicken Stock and 1/4 tsp salt to a boil.

2. Slowly whisk in buckwheat, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Skim off any suds.

3. Slice or tear mushrooms, add to a dry pan over medium heat and let cook down for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

4. Thinly slice leeks, discarding dry or tough parts, swirl in a bowl of water to remove the dirt, collect from top of water and let dry.

5. Add 1/2 tbsp ghee and leeks to mushrooms, season with 1/4 tsp salt and pinch of pepper and cook for 5-10 minutes until leeks are cooked.

6. Scoop buckwheat into a bowl and top with leeks and mushrooms, Almond Cream and Non-Dairy Parmesan.

2 servings vegetables, 1 serving grains, 1 1/2 servings dairy alternatives, 1 1/2 servings fats/oils, 378 kcal

Murray, M. T. & Pizzorno, J. (2012). The encyclopedia of natural medicine (3rd ed.). Atria.