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Need a healthy, every-day and easy dinner soup? This creamy, flavoursome soup is packed with nutrients and fibre and not so heavy in calories. Use reduced-fat coconut milk and you need not feel guilty about  having an extra portion of this tasty soup.   Serve with a helping of your favourite, chunky  bread to fill up empty tummies in the cold.

 

Serves: 4         Cooks in: Less than 45 min.       Easy.

Ingredients:

1 medium head broccoli cut up into florets

1 medium head cauliflower cut up into florets

1 Tbsp of garlic flavoured avocado oil

1 medium onion chopped

2 carrots chopped

1 stem celery chopped

1 small knob of ginger, peeled and chopped

1 small red chilli deseeded and chopped

1 big hand full coriander leaves

1/2 tsp ground turmeric

1 tsp mild curry powder

1 can reduced fat coconut milk

1 litre chicken stock

salt and pepper

Method:

  1. Heat the oil over medium heat in large pot.
  2. Add the onion, garlic, celery, carrots, ginger chilli and coriander and sweat on a medium heat for a few minutes.
  3. Add the turmeric and curry and mix into the onion mixture.  Fry for another minute and pour the chicken stock into the pot.
  4. Cook on a medium heat for another 20 minutes and remove from stove.
  5. Use a stick blender and blend the soup untill everything  is liquified and smooth.  Adjust seasoning to taste.
  6. Serve with chunky bread in pre-warmed soup bowls.