My healthy eating plan kicks in this week, so don't expect cake recipes or delicious desserts for a little while. As I watch the temperature plummet and winter creep up faster than expected I hear my friends calling out for food that's quick and easy to prepare, will warm you from head to toe and has a flavour that will see you all yelling 'give me more'
I'm giving you a fast soup - Orange, Pumpkin, Coconut Soup with Chilli and with a lot of flavour.
Get cracking in the kitchen, there is no time to sit on the couch wrapped in a furry blanket. Because winter is also a time to take some beautiful walks in the fog, prepare your vegetable patch ready for spring, plant some striking bulbs that will surprise you in spring and make a start on that new hobby you have been promising yourself.
Winter - savour it!
ORANGE, PUMPKIN AND COCONUT SOUP - with a Hint of Chilli
Ingredients
1 onion chopped
2 medium potatoes peeled and diced
600g peeled and diced pumpkin
400ml coconut milk
1/2 cup stock or water
1 tbls olive oil
1 knob of butter
1 small red chilli seeded but left whole
salt and pepper
juice of 1 - 2 oranges
fresh chives
In a large pot add olive oil, know of butter and sweat the onions until soft.
Add pumpkin and potato and cook for 5 minutes.
Add coconut milk, stock, salt, pepper and the whole chilli.
Cook partly covered on a very low heat until pumpkin and potato is cooked.
Add juice of one orange. Turn off the heat and allow to cool. Remove the chilli and discard.
Blend soup using a hand held or bench blender until smooth and silky. Taste and add extra orange juice if required.
Serve with a sprinkling of fresh chives.
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