Breakfast - Grilled Veggies on Pumpernickel Toast and Ginger Lemon Tea

Sauteed Mushrooms and Zucchini on Pumpernickel

ingredients

Vine tomatoes - 1 per person - cut in half inch slices*

Mushrooms - 3 or 4 or a portabello mushroom (the large ones) for each person - half inch slices
Courgettes - 4 or 5 slices per person - half inch slices
Olive oil - 1 teaspoon per person
Shoyu (natural soya sauce) - 2 teaspoons per person

• 1. Wash and slice vegetables

• 2. Mix the soya sauce and oil together whisking a fork

• 3. Toss  the vegetables in half of the shoyu/oil mixture and place them on the wire rack of a large grill pan. 

• 4. At the side of the veggies, put one slice of pumpernickel per person.  

• 5. Grill for about 5 mins (should be gently sizzling)

• 6.  Turn over the veg slices and bread and grill for another 5 mins.

• 7. Layer the veg on the pumpernickel first the tomatoes then the mushroom slices, then the courgettes.  Pour over these the other half of the shoyu/oil mix and grill all for a further 2 or 3 mins or until sizzling and starting to brown slightly. *Alternatively you can half the tomatoes, and serve them grilled on the side.

Serve garnished with chopped chives or finely sliced spring onions, followed by ginger lemon tea for a quick macrobiotic* cooked breakfast.

This is a quick meal made substantial by using pumpernickel bread, it makes a great breakfast if you feel extra hungry, also can be eaten for lunch or supper.  Organic sliced wholemeal bread can be substituted for a lighter meal.

You can buy great organic pumpernickel at most supermarkets.  The one I got from Morrisons only cost about a £1.09 - it contains 8 slices and keeps for weeks till opened.  It is made with whole rye flour and cooked whole oats and barley, it has no wheat content at all.

Twinings do a lemon and ginger tea, which I noticed at both Morrisons and the Co-op.

*strictly speaking, tomatoes are avoided when aiming for macrobiotic ideal balance, as they are extremely yin.  Personally I tend to be pretty tolerant in regards to nightshade vegetables (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines . . etc), on an occasional basis.