Recipes

Delicious, nutritious recipes with the benefits of Ensure

We all know that a healthy, balanced diet is vital for staying healthy. As we get older, we may not be able to meet our daily nutritional requirements with our usual diet.

This is when adding Ensure into meals can be of great value.

Ensure is scientifically formulated for people needing a nutritional boost to their normal diet, which may be inadequate for their body’s needs due to age, illness or a chronic condition. Ensure provides energy, protein and a wide range of minerals and vitamins essential for health.

Below we’ve put together a range of great tasting recipes which will assist you in preparing nourishing soups, meals, snacks and desserts with the added benefits of Ensure to help increase your nutritional intake.You can indulge in some of the foods you love and know you are getting the vitamins and minerals you need every day. A PDF version of our recipe book is also available for easy download and printing.

Enjoy!

Creamy Corn Chowder

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

8 scoops Ensure Vanilla Powder
1 tablespoon Vegetable oil
½ medium onion, diced
1 stalk celery, diced
1 small carrot, diced
1 small potato, diced
1 cup of corn kernels
1 bay leaf
3 cups vegetable stock
150mL full cream milk
2 tablespoon flour
1 rasher bacon, trimmed and chopped
Parsley to garnish

Method:

Place bacon into a large soup pot with vegetable oil and cook on medium heat until golden brown. Add onion and celery and stir until softened.
Add carrots, potato, corn, bay leaf and stock and simmer gently for 5 minutes, or until vegetables are tender.
Remove from heat and add Ensure Powder, flour and milk together and stir until smooth.
Return to heat and simmer gently for further 2-3 minutes and remove bay leaf.
Serve sprinkled with parsley.

Nutrition content per serve:

Energy: 1058kJ
Protein: 9.5g
Fat: 9.8g
Saturated fat: 2g
Carbohydrate: 29.7g
Sugars: 10g
Fibre: 3.9g
Sodium: 1068mg

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