You know the feeling, January, freezing cold. You get home after a epic surf and even after a nice warm shower you still feel chilly? Try this lovely spicy and really easy to make soup to warm your cockles!
Ingredients:
- Red chilies (you can decide on how hot or spicy you want this, I prefer 2 mild chilli’s de-seeded so you just get the nice warmth without any blistering heat)
- One Sweet Potato, chopped into cubes.
- 2 cloves of garlic (chopped)
- 1 teaspoon of Garam masala
powder - one small onion (diced)
- Vegetable stock (about a pint)
- Splash of olive oil
- one tin of coconut milk
Method
- Heat the olive oil in a large non-stick pan
- When the oil is nice a warm, throw in the diced onions and garlic.
- Stir the onion and garlic around for about 3 minutes until the onion is nice and translucent, but not colored. don’t let the garlic burn.
- Put the Garam masala and chillis in to the onion and garlic mix. Starting to smell nice eh?
- Stir this mixture around for about a minute, then put in the chopped up sweet potato and stock.
- Bring to the boil then turn it down to a simmer. Poke the sweet potato’s with a sharp knife until the knife goes in easily.
- When the knife goes in easily, pour in the coconut milk (don’t worry if its all in one solid lump, it will soon melt in your pan)
- Give it a good mix and simmer for about 5 minutes then blend it all together with a stick blender. (Top Tip: Keep the blender at the bottom of the pan, or your kitchen will run the risk of getting a new sweet potato color scheme!)
- Once the soup is all nice and smooth, keep simmering till its nice and hot, pour into a bowl and enjoy!
