Name: Roasted (Levi) Roots Soup
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 400 ml. can coconut milk; 1 tsp ground cumin; fresh coriander leaves, to garnish; ½ tsp smoked paprika, ideally Spanish, plus extra to garnish; 3 tbsp olive oil; 4 cm (1½ in) fresh root ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 3 tomatoes, halved; salt and black pepper; 1 bay leaf; crusty white bread, to serve; 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 5 cm (2 in) chunks; 2 carrots, peeled and cut into 4cm (1½ in) chunks; 2 red onions, quartered; 2 red peppers, deseeded

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

I visited a great deli in Brixton Market - Wild Caper, in Market Row, off Electric Lane - where they serve a fantastic spiced sweet roots soup. The talented soup-maker told me her secret. She adds a pinch of smoked paprika for depth. I tried it in my version of the soup and it really works. Serve with a hunk of bread for a satisfying lunch!