Chunky Spiced Vegetable Soup

Coconut crops up in many dishes in tropical countries. Here it is teamed with sweet potato and spices to make a tasty soup

Serves 2-3

Ingredients

2 tbsp vegetable oil

1 onion finely chopped

100g of each turnip, sweet potato, pumpkin, peeled roughly chopped

1 tsp dried marjoram

1 tbsp garlic ginger paste

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground coriander

1 tsp ground fennel

1 cube vegetable stock

1 tsp sugar

200 ml coconut cream

Pepper and salt to taste

1 fresh red chilli chopped

Handful of coriander leaves chopped

Method

Heat oil in a pan, sauté onion and garlic ginger for 2 minutes. Add chopped vegetables, salt, marjoram, soup cube, sugar, cinnamon, coriander & fennel powder stir well for 5 more minutes.

Add one bowl of water, and coconut cream and bring to boil till vegetables are soft.

Turn off heat, ladle soup into the bowls, garnish with chopped coriander and red chilli.