How to Eat 30 Plants a Week: 100 recipes to boost your health and energy

With a foreword by Tim Spector, bestselling author and founder of ZOE

30 plants may sound a lot, but in Hugh’s expert hands it feels like an easy win, for the delicious meals as much as the incredible health benefits. Central to these is great gut health, and a foreword by gut-health guru Tim Spector explains why Hugh is bang on target to deliver the goods. And in racking up the plant power, you’ll feel great, have renewed energy and reset your microbiome.

In chapters such as six packed soup and stoups, seven big salads, meat and six veg, fish fivers and tripe threat sides, Hugh shows you how to get many more plants on your plate, with people-pleasing plant-only dishes at the fore, as well as some humdingers with a little well-chosen meat or fish along for the ride. By plants, Hugh means fruit and veg and much more besides – including nuts, seeds, pulses, grains, herbs, spices, chocolate and even coffee.

Recipes include:
Purple shakshuka
Shroomami soup
Sichuan aubergine with tofu and black beans
Caponata with chickpeas and apricots
Goat’s cheese and greens herby pie
Tomato, rosemary and saffron baked rice
Slow-roast Merguez-spiced shoulder of lamb
Steak, charred little gem and spring onion salsa
Roast ratatouille flatfish
Cracking crab salad
Kimchi and Kraut slaws
Very berry ripple fro-yo
… and many more!

With plant ingredients numbered by chapter, and overlaps kept to a minimum, it’s easy to keep a count and rack up your weekly plant score. Simply by choosing just a handful of recipes from the book, you will have nailed your 30 plants, and by adding an extra main, a treat or a pud, and a snack or a side, you’ll be well on your way to 50 plants a week! With Hugh to show you the way, this isn’t just going to be doable: it’s going to be easy, it’s going to be fun, and most of all it’s going to be delicious.

Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date: 12/03/2024