MEGHAN Markle is known for her love of good food, often sharing new recipes and dishes on her now-defunct blog The Tig. Named after her favourite wine, Tignanello, the Duchess of Sussex loves nothing more than a glass of wine with simple, fresh ingredients. The 37-year-old championed healthy eating, starting her day with hot water […]
MEGHAN Markle is known for her love of good food, often sharing new recipes and dishes on her now-defunct blog The Tig.
Named after her favourite wine, Tignanello, the Duchess of Sussex loves nothing more than a glass of wine with simple, fresh ingredients.
The 37-year-old championed healthy eating, starting her day with hot water and lemon to aid digestion.
Working on set for hours a day, Meghan would bring in a green juice she made at home to avoid reaching for caffeine when that “4pm slump” kicked in.
Speaking to Today, she said: “If I blend some apple, kale, spinach, lemon and ginger in my Vitamix in the morning and bring it to work, I always find that sipping on that is a much better boost than a cup of espresso.”
She advised people to mix it up, throwing in berries or dairy-free milk for a change.
On the weekdays Meghan would kick things off with steel-cut oats with bananas and agave syrup, but when she wasn’t working she’d indulge a bit.
If at a hotel, she told EyeSwoon she’d order “poached eggs and toast with avocado”, but her ultimate morning breakfast would be blueberry johnnycakes, bacon and maple syrup.
For lunch, Meghan would also eat healthier when she was working when compared to the weekends.
She’d cook in bulk, and save time throughout the week.
Breakfast: Blueberry johnnycakes with bacon and maple syrup
Lunch: Fish tacos and Albarino white wine
Dinner: Rib eye and sautéed broccoli rabe or cavatelli pasta with a glass of The Tig
Seasoned veggie quinoa was her “go to” meal on set, with Neghan telling Today: “At the start of each week, I generally cook a box of quinoa, and while it’s simmering, I saute onions, garlic and any veggies I have on hand in a separate pan.
“Toss this veggie mixture into the finished quinoa and eat it as a side dish, poured on top of a kale salad, or as an easy snack.
“It stores for days in your fridge.”
The mum to Archie confessed a love for Baja-style food, saying as a California girl she was conditioned to like it “from the womb”.
Making her think of home, fish tacos are her go-to lunch when she had the time, which she would often make on her ceramic grill in her garden.
She told Today: “Grill some peppers and onions and a couple filets of fish (a flaky white fish works best).
“Season everything with salt and pepper, a little lime and stuff it all inside of a warm corn tortilla.
“Few bites of food make me happier than that.”
For Meghan it’s all about fresh ingredients, which she was surrounded with growing up in LA.
She told EyeSwoon: “My love of simple ingredients prepped well is completely linked to that.
“And the diet tends to be healthier as well – acai bowls, green juices, chopped salads, perfect sushi, grilled fish tacos… those are all things that make me think of home.”
Her fridge essentials reflect that, with the Duchess revealing to Good Housekeeping the five things you could always find her fridge are ‘hummus, carrots, green juice, almond milk and chia seed pudding’ which she “makes every single week”.
She declared her love for hummus, telling Today: “I like to assemble a small plate of crackers, hummus (try to make it yourself; it’s so easy) and some baby carrots.
“This sounds so simple, but truly, it satisfies so many senses—the savoury taste, the textural crunch, the unctuousness of the hummus.”
Simple recipes are favoured by Meghan, who said the dish she’d make with her “eyes closed” is cacio and pepe pasta – cheese and pepper – because it’s “so simple”.
Other healthy snacks she champions include kale chips, which she drizzles with olive oil and salt.
But not all her snacks are that healthy, with the former actress a fan of chips.
She sees them as “their own food group”, calling them her guilty pleasure, and she’d always order a side if eating lunch with someone.
She told EyeSwoon: “I love a french fry, but there’s no shame in that.”
Meghan’s love of good food goes hand in hand with her love of fitness, with the mum-of-one known for her love of yoga and holistic recipes.
Photos shared on her Instagram showed the Duchess pulling off some impressive yoga moves, telling EyeSwoon: “It may be very California girl of me to always have my tinctures of holistic remedies.
“I travel with all sorts of little homeopathic medicine because it’s what’s familiar with me.”
But Meghan is also a big meat eater, revealing her signature dish for dinner parties is an whole roasted chicken.
She told Good Housekeeping: “There is nothing as delicious (or as impressive) as a perfectly roasted chicken.
“If you have an Ina Garten–level roasted-chicken recipe, it’s a game changer.
“I bring that to dinner parties and make a lot of friends.”
A fan of “Sunday suppers”, lamb tagine, pot roast, hearty soup, chicken adobo were all on her hearty menu.
In-keeping with the meat theme, her ultimate dish for dinner would be a T-bone steak, with broccoli rabe and a trusty glass of red.
She told EyeSwoon it’s a toss-up between that and her faithful pasta.
A secret ingredient in one of her pasta recipes is aubergine, which she would slow-cook for hours until it turned to mush.
She told Delish: “The sauce gets so creamy, you’d swear there’s tons of butter and oil in it, but it’s just zucchini, water and a little bouillon.”
Meghan would whip up her creations using her trusty Vitamix, which along with her Shun knife, are the two kitchen essentials she couldn’t live without.
Her friends have claimed the Duchess will make all her own baby food as she settles into motherhood.
Meghan’s friends got her a Vitamix as a wedding present, after the Duchess said she doesn’t go anywhere without it.
And her make-up artist recently claims she was snubbed by fashion designers for not being ‘A-list’ enough.
