Chilled rasam consomme
Ingredients
- Tamarind
- Coriander
- Black pepper
- Cumin
- Guntur dried red chillies
- Garlic
- Curry leaves
- Tomatoes
- Water
- Gingelly oil
Method
- Put the tamarind in around 250 ml of water to soak.
- Heat one teaspoon of oil in a pan. When you can smell the aroma, add coriander seeds, cumin, black peppercorns, and red chilies. The hues shouldn't shift. Please turn off the heat and allow it to cool.
- Add the curry leaves and garlic cloves to the pan and roast them until the raw aroma disappears (for about 1 minute).
- Grind the tomatoes coarsely in a mixer, then set them aside.
- Take the cooled spices, garlic, and curry leaves in a separate container and coarsely crush them in a mixer. Set aside.
- Add the tomato and spices to a large, heavy-bottomed pot.
- While waiting, firmly press the soaked tamarind to extract the water, then throw away the solids. Fill the container with this water.
- Add some salt and around 2 litres of water. Once it begins to bubble, allow the mixture to come to a boil before taking it off the heat. Set apart for cooling.
- Once it has reached room temperature, decant it into a tall container and place it in the refrigerator, untouched, to allow the flavours to fully meld. You will notice that the spices have separated into layers after a few hours, with the clearest liquid at the top.
- With great care, decant the liquid layer. To make sure the liquid is as clear as possible, strain it. Serve cold.
Mexican Avocado Soup
Ingredients
- large ripe avocado
- cucumber
- spring onions
- a few sprigs of fresh coriander
- organic vegetable stock/stock cube (chilled)
- plain yoghurt
- mild fresh green chilly
- fresh red chilli
- lime
- a handful of micro garlic chives
- Tabasco sauce
Method
- The avocado should be peeled, stoned, and chopped. The cucumber should be peeled and the seeds removed, saving a 3-centimetre piece for later.
- Roughly chop the coriander leaves after trimming and chopping the spring onions.
- Use a blender to puree the avocado, cucumber, spring onions, coriander, stock, yoghurt, and green chilli.
- Add a generous teaspoon of sea salt, black pepper, and a hefty squeeze of lime juice and Tabasco, and then cover and chill in the refrigerator.
- Finely slice the red chilli, peel, deseed, and chop the reserved cucumber slice.
- After the soup has chilled, serve it in small dishes and garnish it with tortilla chips, cucumber chunks, red chilli, and garlic chives.
- If preferred, put a drizzle of avocado oil on top.
Tomato Gazpacho
Ingredients
- Red tomatoes
- Red bell pepper
- Celery
- Cucumber
- Red onion
- Peeled garlic
- Iceberg lettuce
Method
- Roughly chop the tomatoes.
- Remove the seeds, chop, and wash the red bell peppers.
- Peel and chop the onions into small pieces.
- Cut the cucumber into small bits after peeling.
- Crisp lettuce iceberg.
- Add the garlic to the bowl of the mixer along with the remaining ingredients.
- With a mixer, properly combine 7.
- Move into a dish. Add some cold water to the mixture, then season to taste.
- Wait for the soup to get cold.