Healing & Hearty Spiced Vegetable Soup

This soup is a great alternative to Kitchari when you are in a period of cleansing or fasting, or as a warming lunch or dinner with a piece of toast on a cold day..

Ingredients: 

• 2 -3 cups of vegetables of choice, prepped and chopped

• 3 tbsp sliced onions

• 2 cloves garlic, chopped

• 1 tbsp ghee or oil

• ½ - 1 tsp each cumin and coriander powder

• 1/2 tsp each turmeric powder and cracked blacked pepper

• Salt to taste

• 2 tsp black peppercorns

• 3-4 cups of water

• Fresh coriander leaves and stalk, chopped

Method: 

• Warm the ghee or oil in a saucepan, and sautee onions until fragrant.

• Add vegetables and after a few minutes, add the spices and garlic. Add water and bring to the boil.

• Once veggies are soft and cooked, remove from stove and gently mash vegetables (if desired) with a potato masher, leaving it slightly chunky. There should also still be water in the saucepan to make the ‘soup’

• Serve warm- hot by itself or with a few tablespoons of pre-boiled rice and garnish with fresh coriander to serve. 

• Make 4-5 serves.