Spicy Vegetable Soup
"This thin soup has sweet, sour and spicy flavours. The coconut milk tones down the chilli! This recipe is from Indonesia. It’s borrowed from “The World of Spice” and is posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
photo by Kumquat the Cats fr
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 300 ml boiling water
- 4 tablespoons desiccated coconut
- 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
- 1 onion, thinly sliced
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 inch piece gingerroot, peeled and grated
- 2 green chilies, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 1⁄4 liters vegetable stock
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 2 carrots, thinly sliced
- 2 stalks celery, thinly sliced
- 1 leek, thinly sliced
- 2 ounces green beans, chopped
- salt (or soy sauce)
- 1 lemon, juice of
directions
- Pour the boiling water over the desiccated coconut; leave to steep for 15 minutes to make coconut milk; strain to remove any fibers.
- Heat the sunflower oil in a pan and add the onion, cook for 2-3 minutes until soft then stir in the garlic, ginger, chillies and turmeric; heat through to make a sticky paste, stirring to prevent burning.
- Add the stock and coconut milk and heat through, then add the sugar, carrots, celery, leek and green beans; simmer gently for 30 minutes.
- Add salt and soy sauce to taste; stir in lemon juice just before serving.
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Reviews
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My dieting husband loved this. I used powdered coconut milk, a big dollop of Thai curry paste in place of the chilies, and zucchini standing in for the green beans. Proof once more that soup can be comfort food without too many calories or carbs. Thanks. -
Very tasty, very light and healthy soup. The sweet, sour and spicy flavors are well balanced and don't overpower one another. I used dried sweetened coconut which was what I had in the cabinet. This produced a very thin milk which seemed to work fine as far as I was concerned. I used two tablespoons soy sauce and no extra salt. Had the leftovers for lunch today. BF enjoyed it too. Thanks for the recipe Mrs. B!
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My dieting husband loved this. I used powdered coconut milk, a big dollop of Thai curry paste in place of the chilies, and zucchini standing in for the green beans. Proof once more that soup can be comfort food without too many calories or carbs. Thanks.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
