I was raised by my vegetarian grandparents, I tend to lean towards a vegetarian diet, full of a variety of food and flavours from all over the world. I hate cooking but I love to eat.
Apple tart/strudel/pie/cake: I lived in Paris for four years and always indulged in apple treats!
Roast chicken leg: It's important to have some meat in my diet, so a chicken leg with olive oil and a light French dressing is perfect.
Hummus: I'm very fussy about this, it really has to be made by those who know best, the Israelis.
Chicken soup: It's great when its made by grandmothers, but I can't make it.
Salad: I especially like Waldorf salad, its a great way to keep healthy.
Apples contain the powerful anti-oxidant flavanol quercetin. Eating raw apples will provide maximum flavanol intake, especially if unpeeled. Stewing apples more than halves the flavanol content since flavanols leach into the cooking water.
Chicken provides high quality, complete protein ; strict vegetarians should eat a variety of plant proteins to obtain all the amino acids they require. Gil should remove skin from the chicken to reduce his fat intake and also try to use oil-free spray when roasting the chicken.
Chickpeas in hummus contain cholesterol-lowering fibre and are a useful source of protein and folate.
Make chicken soup healthier by adding chicken with its bones, vegetables, herbs and spices in lieu of salt, and by removing fat following overnight refrigeration.
The celery, apple and walnut content of Waldorf salad will provide vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants and fibre but use low fat mayonnaise to lower the fat content.
Gil Cohen-Alloro co-founded the Hafla charity which is organising a cooking event for Jews and Arabs in November