Falafel made from chickpeas
PREPARATION Wash and drain the chickpeas. Peel and roughly chop the potatoes, onions and garlic. Purée all ingredients with a
Paella with basmati rice
PREPARATION Heat 8 tablespoons of rapeseed oil in a pan. Peel and finely dice the onion and garlic. Halve the
Potato dumplings half and
PREPARATION Boil 7 potatoes in salted water for approx. 20 minutes. Drain the potatoes and mash them or press them
Börek With spinach and
PREPARATION Peel the potatoes and boil in salted water for approx. 20 minutes until soft. Drain the potatoes, mash them
Lentil soup with mint
PREPARATION Wash the vegetables. Peel and dice the garlic, onions, carrots and potatoes. Remove the seeds from the peppers and
Dear Patients and Families,
A protein-reduced diet in everyday life requires a great deal of planning, discipline, and often involves many restrictions. With this cookbook, we want to offer you new inspiration: recipes that bring joy, include the whole family, and help restore a sense of normality.
At Dipharma Arzneimittel, our aim is to support you and your family in the long term. We listen — to your questions, your needs, your daily challenges. Through close exchange with patients, relatives, doctors, dietitians, and self-help groups, we develop practical solutions that make everyday life easier. To support therapy — for example when using sapropterin — we provide additional materials, from information brochures and video tutorials to this cookbook.
A special thank you goes to Ms. Thuy Nguyen, who has been supporting families with metabolic disorders since 2008. Her experience and her intuitive understanding of everyday life have shaped the recipes in this book: practical, varied, enjoyable — and close to “normal” cuisine.
A balanced selection of foods is — even when undergoing therapy with sapropterin — a central part of treatment. This book offers many international favorite recipes, carefully adapted to the requirements of PKU and BH4 deficiency.
Finally, for who is used to reason in terms of PKU exchange, we provide you with a user-friendly table that will enable any PKU patient to easily calculate how many grams of each single recipe he/she would need to get 1 exchange.
We hope this book provides you with practical support and new taste experiences — for more variety, more enjoyment, and a better quality of life.
We wish you lots of joy in cooking and savoring!
Gerd Grebing
Managing Director, Dipharma Arzneimittel GmbH
For further information about your diet, please contact your metabolic centre for detailed advice.
Pancakes with spelt flour
PREPARATION Mix the flour, kefir, vanilla sugar, egg, baking powder and oat milk
Potato salad with cucumber and radishes
PREPARATION Peel the potatoes and boil in salted water for approx. 20 minutes.
Pirogies with savoury potato filling
PREPARATION Mix the flour, water, yoghurt, oil and salt, knead the dough and
Couscous salad spicy
PREPARATION Bring the water to the boil, add the couscous and salt, stir briefly and leave to stand. Halve the tomatoes and cucumbers, remove the seeds and dice into
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