Warm Yoghurt & Spinach Soup

I love Chilled Yoghurt Soup, Cucumber Raita, Indian Salt Lassi but in this cold and damp weather I wanted something warm.

I found a recipe for a Turkish yoghurt soup, and added a little more fibre.

Serves 1

150ml water

1 large handful baby spinach

1 tsp dried mint

1 tbsp extra olive oil

1 tbsp flaxseed or cooked brown rice (optional)

1 tsp vegetable stock powder

150g Greek yoghurt

1 small garlic clove, peeled and crushed

1 free range egg

Liquidise the spinach, garlic, olive oil, and flaxseed/rice, with the water.  I added flaxseed to add a little fibre to this soup, and as the Turkish recipe I based this soup on used a watery white rice base, but it is optional.  You could, of course, add a portion of cooked rice to the finished soup to make it into a meal in itself

Pour the liquidised mixture into a small pan, bring to the boil, then turn down to a simmer

Beat the egg and crushed garlic into the yoghurt.  

Stir a couple of tablespoons of the hot stock from the pan into the yoghurt, then slowly stir into the stock in the pan.  The soup will start to thicken with the egg.  Keeping stirring, and take the soup off the heat just before it boils otherwise the yoghurt may split.

Season with pepper and salt to taste, and serve with an optional drizzle of chilli oil.

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