Chilled Cucumber Soup

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 medium onions, chopped fine
• 4 cucumbers, peeled seeded and sliced
• 2 1/2 cups yoghurt
• 1 bunch fresh green coriander
• tabasco sauce
• salt & freshly ground black pepper
• 2 cups stock (either vegetable or chicken)

Recipe

• 1 wash the coriander thoroughly.
• 2 chop the leaves and the stalks and keep aside.
• 3 add the peeled and chopped onions and the peeled, seeded and sliced cucumbers with the coriander into a blender and mix well till everything is finely chopped.
• 4 in a bowl mix the yoghurt with the tabasco and the salt and freshly ground black pepper to your taste.
• 5 if you want the spice to be a little less then hold back on the tabasco adding just 4-5 drops, for a stronger flavour add in more tabasco.
• 6 whisk the stock and the cucumber mixture into the yoghurt well.
• 7 cover and refrigerate for 2-3 hours allowing it to chill.
• 8 for best effect, chill the bowls you want to serve the cucumber soup in and pour the chilled soup into them, when you are ready to serve.
• 9 this can be garnished with a dollop of yoghurt and a few coriander leaves.