Morning soup

Name: Morning soup (Changua)
Cuisine: Colombian
Ingredients: 1 litre/1¾ pints/4 cups water; 475 ml/16 fl oz/2 cups milk; 1 spring onion (scallion), thinly sliced; 1 spring onion (scallion), thinly sliced; 30 ml/2 tbsp finely chopped coriander (cilantro); 30 ml/2 tbsp finely chopped coriander (cilantro); 1 garlic clove, peeled; 4 eggs; salt and ground black pepper; salt and ground black pepper

Changua

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Colombia and Venezuela

By Patricia McCausland-Gallo

Published 2015

About

This simple, warming soup is very popular in the Andes, where it is very cold in the mornings all year round, and it makes a sustaining breakfast. My paternal grandmother was from the mountainous region of Tolima and my father loved this soup as a midmorning snack, especially at weekends.

Ingredients

1 litre/1¾ pints/4 cups water
475 ml<

Americas
Venezuela
Colombia
Tolima
Soup
Snack
Breakfast
Vegetarian
South America

Method

Put the water and milk into a pan and add 15ml/1 tbsp each of the sliced spring onion and chopped coriander and the garlic clove. Season with salt and pepper.
Bring the milk mixture to the boil, reduce the heat to a minimum and simmer for 10 minut