Maxima Squash Soup with Coconut Milk & Lime

Maxima Squash Soup with Coconut Milk & Lime

Servings: 4 persons

Ingredients

  • 1 Maxima squash cubed (around 800 gr)
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 small onion
  • 300 ml of coconut milk as thick as possible
  • 2 tsp of turmeric
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 1 lime
  • 1 tbsp sweet vinegar cider, rice, apple
  • 1 tsp of salt
  • 1 Espelette pepper
  • 1 tbsp of olive oil
  • Crushed non-salted pistachios

Instructions

  • Chop the onion and peel & slice the garlic. Sauté in a saucepan with turmeric and olive oil for 5 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, remove the seeds from the squash, peel and cut into pieces.
  • Wash the lemon and take two strips of peel with a peeler.
  • Add squash, zest, bay leaf, salt, vinegar and fry for 3 minutes.
  • During this time, bring to the boil 400 ml of spring or mineral water.
  • Pour boiling water and coconut milk into the casserole. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove the bay leaf, mix.
  • Add some lime juice. Serve hot or cold, with toast of country bread topped with very fresh goat cheese, or drop a grated raw squash lightly seasoned with lime and olive oil in the center of the plates and sprinkle with crushed unsalted pistachios.
  • Tip: You can replace lime with orange.
  • Tips: can use frozen ready-to-use chopped garlic and onion, as well as coconut milk.