Chilled avocado soup with zingy salsa recipe

By Kate Belcher

  1. Serves 4 for lunch or 6 as a starter
  2. Ready in 25 minutes
  3. Rating

You can make the zingy salsa the day before and keep it covered in the fridge until you’re ready to eat. You can also freeze the soup for up to 1 month. If you do, defrost at room temperature, stir until smooth and serve chilled.

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Chilled avocado soup with zingy salsa

Ingredients

  1. 2 ripe avocados
  2. Juice of 11/2 limes
  3. 1 cucumber, peeled, deseeded and roughly chopped
  4. 2 spring onions, chopped
  5. Small handful of fresh coriander, stalks and leaves separated
  6. Handful of ice cubes, roughly crushed
  7. 400ml vegetable stock, chilled
  8. 200g natural Greek yogurt
  9. Few dashes of Tabasco
  10. Extra-virgin olive oil, to serve
  11. For the salsa
  12. 4 ripe plum tomatoes, deseeded and diced
  13. 2 spring onions, finely chopped
  14. Few dashes of Tabasco
  15. Small handful of chopped fresh coriander
  16. Juice of 1/2 lime

Method

  1. 1. Make the salsa by mixing all the ingredients in a bowl. Season, cover and chill until needed.
  2. 2. Make the soup. Halve and stone the avocados, scoop out the flesh with a spoon and put into a food processor. Add the lime juice, chopped cucumber, chopped spring onions, coriander stalks, ice and half the vegetable stock. Whizz until smooth. Tip into a large bowl and stir in the rest of the stock, yogurt and Tabasco. Chop the coriander leaves, stir into the soup and season.
  3. 3. Divide the soup between 4 or 6 bowls and top each one with a spoonful of salsa and a drizzle of olive oil.

Nutritional info

Per serving (based on 4): 248kcals, 20.1g fat (6.6g saturated), 6.4g protein, 10.4g carbs, 8.9g sugar, 0.3g salt

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