Thai-style Potato And Spinach Soup

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 large onions or 2 large shallots, finely chopped
• 1 clove garlic, sliced thinly
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 small red chilies, deseeded and sliced
• 1 unwaxed lemon
• 750 g potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
• 2 vegetable stock cubes, dissolved in 1 litre of boiling water
• salt and pepper
• tabasco sauce or other chili sauce
• 100 g young spinach leaves
• 1 cup coriander leaves

Recipe

• 1 heat oil in a large fry pan and saute onion and garlic for five minutes.
• 2 remove two strips of zest from the lemon and add chilli and lemon zest into the frying pan.
• 3 cook for another few minutes.
• 4 stir the potatoes into the mixture and cook for a couple minutes, before adding the hot stock.
• 5 bring soup to a boil, turn down heat immediately.
• 6 add one tablespoon lemon juice, salt and pepper.
• 7 simmer, partially covered, for about 15 minutes or until the potatoes are cooked.
• 8 adjust seasoning with salt, lemon juice and tabasco.
• 9 squash the spinach into the pan, coarsely chop the coriander and add that in as well.
• 10 when the spinach is wilted, the soup is ready.