| I woke up pretty early this morning and noticed how | | | | them to a large bowl. Next chop up the coriander and |
| much lighter it was than usual, which reminded me how | | | | spring onions and throw them into the bowl too. Splash |
| it stayed a little bit lighter for longer yesterday evening. | | | | a few dashes of Tabasco and squeeze the juice out |
| Only by half an hour or so, but it gives me that feeling | | | | of your lime half. Mix it around until it looks nice and |
| that Summer is approaching! Exciting stuff. | | | | blended then cover and put in the fridge to chill. |
| Call me optimistic, but I decided I would share with you | | | | Step 2: |
| one of my cooler vegetable soup recipes that is | | | | Halve the avocados and remove the stones. Scoop |
| perfect for those warm summer evenings! Avocado | | | | out its innards with a spoon and process with a |
| soup is a nice chilled recipe, but to give it a bit of a | | | | blender or food processor of some kind. Take the lime |
| twist, we shall add some Tabasco to give it an extra | | | | and a half and squeeze the juice to the processed |
| zing kick. Who wants a boring soup? Not us! This | | | | avocados. Next we need to prepare the cucumber by |
| recipe will take about 30 minutes to prepare and will | | | | peeling it and roughly chopping, de-seeding it |
| serve 4. | | | | beforehand to avoid sieving later. Chop your coriander |
| Ingredients: | | | | to separate the stalk from the leaves. Take the |
| * Two ripe avocados | | | | chopped cucumber, spring onions and coriander stalks |
| * One and a half limes | | | | and add it to the mix. Pour in half of the vegetable |
| * One cucumber | | | | stock and ice cubes and using the food processor |
| * 400ml chilled vegetable stock | | | | again start mixing it up. Once the soup has been |
| * 200g natural Greek yogurt | | | | purée'd add it to a bowl and pour in the rest of |
| * Small handful of chopped fresh coriander | | | | the vegetable stock, followed by the greek yoghurt |
| * Two chopped spring onions | | | | and dashing some Tabasco on top. Dice up your |
| * Handful of crushed ice cubes | | | | coriander leaves and add this to the bowl and stir it |
| * Tabasco | | | | into the soup well. |
| * Extra-virgin olive oil | | | | Step 3: |
| Salsa: | | | | As no heating needs to be done our avocado soup is |
| * Four ripe plum tomatoes | | | | just about ready, so get four bowls and pour the soup |
| * Two spring onions | | | | into them. Get your previously prepared salsa and add |
| * Small handful of fresh coriander | | | | a spoonful to the top of each bowl followed by a dash |
| * Tabasco | | | | of olive oil and serve. |
| * Half a lime | | | | This is one of my zingiest vegetable soup recipes so |
| Step 1: | | | | far, if you happen to be in a soup mood during the |
| First off we need to make the salsa. Get your plum | | | | summer period and don't fancy anything too hot then |
| tomatoes and dice them, removing the seeds and add | | | | avocado soup is for you! |