Gluten & Dairy Free

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4

This is a great soup to give your circulation a boost and is easily made with stock cupboard ingredients. It comes from Michael Van Straten’s Super Duper Soups book.

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Hot Harissa Soup

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Ingredients :

• 25g butter
• I medium onion, finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 inch fresh ginger, grated
• 1 tsp tomato puree
• 1 tsp Harissa (try Barts harissa paste, add more if you like it hot!)
• 1 400g can of chopped tomatoes
• 1 litre vegetable stock
• Plain yogurt and coriander leaves to garnish (optional)

Instructions :

1. Melt butter in a large pan and gently cook onion and garlic.
2. Once cooked through, stir in cumin and ginger and cook gently for a further 2 mins.
3. Stir in tomato puree and harissa paste, then add tomatoes and stock and simmer for 15 mins.
4. Whiz in a blender until it’s smooth.
5. Stir in a swirl of yogurt if you want and scatter over coriander leaves.
6. I usually eat this soup with a slice of toast and peanut butter.
7. Delicious!