Chilled Avocado Lemon Soup

Name: Chilled Avocado Lemon Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: juice and zest from 2 lemons seasoning to taste; flesh from 3 small or 2 large, ripe avocados; 150 ml/5 fl oz/⅔ cup sour cream or fromage blanc/cream cheese; 1.7 litres/3 pints/7½ cups soya milk (unsweetened); 150 ml/5 fl oz/⅔ cup sour cream or fromage blanc/cream cheese; 150 ml/5 fl oz/⅔ cup sour cream or fromage blanc/cream cheese

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
5 min

Appears in

The New Vegetarian

By Colin Spencer

Published 1986

About

A smashing soup. I personally think the combination of avocado and soya is excellent, but if you don’t like the nutty taste of soya milk, use skimmed milk instead. The perfect accompaniment to this soup is the cheese and leek brioche.

Ingredients

flesh from 3 small or 2 large, ripe avocados
juice and zest from 2 lemons seasoning to taste

Dinner
Soup
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Summer

Method

Blend the avocados with the zest and juice from 1 lemon, the seasoning and soya milk. Pour the sour cream into a separate bowl and mix in the zest and juice of the other lemon. Chill the soup for 2 hours. Serve with the sour cream mixture.