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 cups of vegetables of choice, prepped and chopped

• 3 tbsp sliced onions

• 1 tbsp ghee

• 1tsp each cumin, coriander, fennel seeds

• ½ tsp each cumin and coriander powder

• 1tsp turmeric powder

• 1 cup pre-boiled rice

• 3-4 cups of water

• Salt and pepper to taste

• 2 tsp black peppercorns

• Fresh coriander leaves and stalk, chopped

Method: 

• Place vegetables in a saucepan with water. Add salt and pepper corns to taste, and boil until semi-soft. 

• Remove from stove and gently mash vegetables with a potato masher, leaving it slightly chunky. There should also still be water in the saucepan to make the ‘soup’

• Separately, cook sliced onions in ghee until translucent and add whole spices (cumin, coriander, fennel seeds) to this mix. 

• After whole spices are heated, add powdered spices and stir to combine. 

• Stir in this spice mixture to veg soup and bring to the boil again before removing from heat.

• Add about 1 cup of pre-boiled rice in at end and garnish with fresh coriander to serve. 

• Make 4-5 serves.