Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Chilled Cucumber (or Courgette) & Yoghurt Soup


If you like Tsatziki or Raita, this is the soup for you. It can be made with either cucumber or courgette, and plant based yoghurt and milk

It is a funny old soup.  I based it partly on Indian salt lassis, salted yoghurt drinks which are a bit an acquired taste, and Middle Eastern yoghurt soups.  And it seemed like a fitting end to a partly frozen cucumber I found at the bottom of the fridge. 

Serves 2, or a greedy 1

Half a cucumber or small courgette, roughly chopped
1 stick of celery, finely sliced
1/4 small onion
1/2 a small garlic clove
5 large mint leaves
Large pinch of salt
2 heaped tablespoons Greek Yoghurt, or plant based yoghurt
100ml milk of your choice or kefir
Pinch of chilli (optional)

Place all the ingredients apart from the yoghurt into a stick blender cup or liquidiser and blitz like a smoothie.  Add the yoghurt a until you have a suitable 'soupy' consistency.  Unlike greedy me, chill and allow the flavours to develop for about 30 minutes. 

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