Cool cucumber soup with Indian spices

Name: Cool cucumber soup with Indian spices
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; little lemon juice; hot naan bread, cut into fingers (optional); salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons mild curry powder; 1 tablespoon garam masala; 2 teaspoons prepared curry paste; 1 garlic clove, crushed; ½ teaspoon mustard seeds; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; 700 ml thick natural yogurt; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint leaves; 2 cucumbers, peeled and halved lengthways; 1 small red chilli, halved, seeds removed and finely chopped

Preparation info

Serve
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pure Vegetarian

By Paul Gayler

Published 2006

About

Another great summer soup. Being a lover of all foods from the Far East, this soup makes a regular appearance on my menus. It is light and delicately spiced and really gets the gastric juices going. If you are serving the naan bread, I recommend it served hot - it makes a good contrast.

Ingredients

For the Curry Paste

2 tablespoons mild curry powder
1 tablespoon garam masala
½

Asia
India
Vegetarian
Soup
Summer

Method

For the curry paste, mix the curry powder and garam masala in a bowl. Add 3 tablespoons of water and mix to a paste. Set aside.

Heat a frying pan over a moderate heat, throw in the mustard and cumin seeds and dry-fry them for 20-30 seconds until they give off an aromatic fragrance. Add the c