STEEMIT CULINARY CHALLENGE : Sniffle Snuffin Carrot, Scotch Bonnet, Ginger & Green Tea Soup!
Sniffle snuffin soup with green tea, turmeric, ginger and scotch bonnet chilli!!! This thing can bring you back from the slimy grey clutches of the cold with its amazing health boosting ingredients: Green Tea BOOM! Turmeric BOOM! Ginger BOOM BOOM!! And not to forget that amazing nose clearing, chest lightening star - Scotch Bonnet Chilli!
It gives me great pleasure to enter into the new Steemit Culinary Challenge #1 run by the accomplished @englishtchrivy - She has resurrected the old Steemit Food challenge and I hope that all you chef'y, cook'y types out there have a bash and give it an enter!! Big thanks to all the sponsors of the new challenge too! - @smooth @instructor2121 @steemtrail @razvanelulmarin @wingz!
Look at these cold clearing ingredients. I aint no scientist but who needs science when you have random links from the interweb!!
Turmeric - Anti Inflammatory and De-toxificator, used for thousands of years! http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=78
Ginger - Reknowned for its ninja like cold fighting properties since the time of the ancients!
https://authoritynutrition.com/11-proven-benefits-of-ginger/
And last but not least, the 'erb of kung fu masters and chosen drink of champions - Green Tea!!!
https://authoritynutrition.com/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-green-tea/
Lets get stuck in, it only takes ten minutes and is so easy its almost a crime!
You will need
2 Carrots
2 Small potatoes
4 Cloves of Garlic (Garlic too, is renowned for its health benefits!)
1 inch cube of ginger
Half a teaspoon of ground turmeric
Half a small onion
Half a Scotch bonnet chilli pepper
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
50 mls of good oil (I use rapeseed)
500 mls of vegetable stock
Small handful of spinach leaves (Spinach you say? Popeye's secret weapon)!
To make
Peel carrots and potatoes, any way you like!
Roughly chop carrots and potatoes, dont worry about how fine the chopping is, they are all getting blended
Boil em for ten minutes
Finely chop onion garlic, ginger and scotch bonnet - You know that scotch bonnet is gonna clear them mucus laden pipes!!
Wallop your oil and spinach in a blender and whizz up
Make a lovely cup of green tea! Mmm I love green tea.
Stir fry your onion, ginger, garlic and scotch bonnet chilli and after a minute add half a teaspoon of turmeric and a tablespoon of lemon juice
Fry for a few minutes then take off the heat
Make your stock, I use a vegetable stock cube here
Now add everything to your blender!
Whizz it up
Give it a sniff, oof!!
Serve it up
Now remember your spinach oil? Get a tablespoon dip it in it and drizzle it artistically onto your soup!
Now serve, preferably with crusty bread!
Amazing, this health in a bowl will help the snuffles and sniffles!!!
Tada!!!
Disclaimer as per contest rules - By entering this competition although I own the rights to the photographs of my entry I acknowledge that you (The contest owner) may use any image in that entry once it gets chosen as one of the winners.
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for everyone else interested here's how to
I hope we see those other entries piling in. They dont even need a mad half naked last post!!
Well done! The cold is long gone!
Raar, that's the stuff. Yes indeed it is!!! :0)
Haha, I liked the photos :D
Cheers, last one is my favourite!!
Looks like a powerful remedy, but I must have missed a bit - what did you make your stock from? Ta!
A fantastic spot, thank you very much - for this recipe I used a simple vegetable stock cube. After all when ill you might not be up to boiling some vegetables or bones for many hours!! I have updated the recipe, thanks again!!
Not sure that's the proper way to hold a peeler? Great post, really great post.
You mean there is another way? ;0)
That last picture ROFL! :-)
Haha, I had fun with that one! :O)
humpf, this make my late night cuppa soup look just a dull as it sounds lol.
Lol, stick a chilli in it ;0)
Great soup!
Thank you!!
Inspiring post! Thanks for fun!
I love the fun!! Thank you!