Chop the carrots, onion and chilli into small chunks and add to a large saucepan
Add the bouillon to the saucepan.
Add enough boiling water to the pan to cover the ingredients and boil until the carrots are tender when prodded with a fork (5 to 10 mins depending on how small you chopped the carrots). Take off the heat.
Using a hand blender, blend the ingredients until it is as smooth as you like it.
If the soup is too thick for your liking, simply slowly add hot water and stir until it is the consistency you like. Keep warm until ready to serve.
Put the pumpkin seeds into a dry pan and toast until golden brown, remove them from the heat.
When ready to serve chop the fresh coriander and stir into the soup just before serving.
Put the soup into bowls and carefully sprinkle the pumpkin seeds to sit on top and serve.
Spicy carrot and coriander soup with toasted pumpkin seeds
Ingredients
- 800 gm carrots
- 1 onion
- 1 tbsp bouillion powder
- 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds
- 2 tbsp fresh coriander
- 1 red chilli
Method
- Chop the carrots, onion and chilli into small chunks and add to a large saucepan
- Add the bouillon to the saucepan.
- Add enough boiling water to the pan to cover the ingredients and boil until the carrots are tender when prodded with a fork (5 to 10 mins depending on how small you chopped the carrots). Take off the heat.
- Using a hand blender, blend the ingredients until it is as smooth as you like it.
- If the soup is too thick for your liking, simply slowly add hot water and stir until it is the consistency you like. Keep warm until ready to serve.
- Put the pumpkin seeds into a dry pan and toast until golden brown, remove them from the heat.
- When ready to serve chop the fresh coriander and stir into the soup just before serving.
- Put the soup into bowls and carefully sprinkle the pumpkin seeds to sit on top and serve.
Nutrition
(All nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more).