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Vitamin central - green herb and yoghurt soup
I have 2 teenage daughters, aged 16 and 13.
Over the past year the main point of conflict in our home hasn't been clothes or homework - it has been vitamins, or rather the lack of them.
Their new found reluctance to eat vegetables (they ate them without a fuss as small children), combined with a seeming fear of going outside (where there is no wifi) have me stomping about the house declaiming about shingles and immune systems in a very "aged P" manner.
I don't like the image that conjures up, so this quick and easy to make soup has become my secret weapon. It is all things green and vibrant whizzed up so that nothing can be "picked out.
It is known in our house as "green soup" - as the actual ingredients change from month to month - but I prefer to think of it as "vitamin central" - somthing to keep my precious girls happy and healthy without involving arguements.
Rhubarb, carrot and ginger soup
This recipe uses rhubarb to cut through the sweetness of root vegetables. - This is my take on them - a soup which went down well at a family lunch yesterday - eaten by octogenarians and teens alike!
It is an unusual soup - really savoury, sharp and light.
Rhubarb, carrot and ginger soup.
Ingredients
2 tblsp olive oil
3 onions - chopped
2 cloves garlic - crushed
3-4 sticks of rhubarb - diced
10 carrots - diced
1 inch ginger
1 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander
1 litre stock (chicken or vegetable)
1 tin coconut milk
2 tblsp fish sauce.
Fry the onions and garlic gently in the oil until soft.
Add in rhubarb, carrots, ginger, cumin and coriander and cook for 5 minutes - do not allow them to colour.
Add stock and simmer for 15 minutes until vegetables are soft.
Add coconut milk and whizz it all to a puree either in a blender or with a whizzy wand.
Stir in the fish sauce - this gives it a really rounded out flavour, stopping the rhubarb being too astringent.
When you want to serve heat it up gently and top with chopped coriander (or chives/basil/mint)
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