Cold Be Gone Soup!
It may not look like anything special, but this soup packs a zesty wallop and clears your head lickety-split! Get the tissues ready! 👍
Ingredients:
- 3 cups water
- 2 packets chicken or veggie broth paste or cubes
- 3 garlic cloves, sliced
- 2-3 small dried red chili peppers
- 1 mushroom, sliced
- 1/4 yellow squash or zucchini, sliced
- Handful cilantro leaves, ripped or chopped
- Fresh ground pepper
- Black pepper
- Hot curry powder
- Sweet curry powder
- Dried or crushed ginger
- Turmeric
- Ground coriander
- Onion powder
- 1/8 onion, sliced
- 1/2 Meyer lemon
- 1/2 lime
- 2 slices Roma tomato, chopped
- Handful garbanzo beans (+ oil for frying)
Directions:
- Heat oil in a small pan. Add garbanzo beans and cook until slightly browned and soft. Set aside.
- Bring water to a boil in a medium size pot.
- Stir well while dissolving broth packets in water.
- Add garlic slices. Tear chili peppers into pot.
- Cover, return to a boil then lower to low-medium.
- Add mushrooms, squash, and cilantro. Stir well.
- Add generous sprinkles of all seasonings. Stir well. Make sure soup is simmering, not boiling.
- Add onion, juice of the lime, tomato, and garbanzo beans.
- Add juice of the lemon and all of the lemon skin (empty out the peel with a grapefruit spoon).
- Continue cooking over low-medium heat until very fragrant. Sample and add additional lime/lemon or seasonings to taste. Enjoy!
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