Thai vegetable soup
Delicious winter warmer. Kūmara can be used in place of pumpkin.
Ingredients
Serves 4
½ Tbsp canola oil
1 Tbsp Thai green curry paste
1½ cups diced peeled pumpkin
4 yams, diced
1 carrot, peeled and diced
1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
3 cups vegetable stock
2 Tbsp lite soy sauce
½ tsp brown sugar
½ cup lite coconut milk
4 coriander sprigs.
Method
Place oil in a heavy-based saucepan and heat. Add Thai green curry paste and stir fry for 1 minute.
Add pumpkin, yams, carrot and onion and stir fry for 2–3 minutes.
Add stock, bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer until vegetables are just cooked.
Stir in soy sauce, sugar and coconut milk. Purée in food processor.
Return to the saucepan and heat until steaming hot.
Serve garnished with coriander.