Tunisian Hot & Smoky Vegetable Soup

Name: Tunisian Hot & Smoky Vegetable Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped; 1 medium carrot, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 medium courgette, roughly chopped; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 teaspoon harissa paste; 300 ml tomato passata; 2 stock cubes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

Harissa is the main flavour of this mixed vegetable soup. We only use a teaspoonful but the smoked chilli paste carries so much wonderful flavour that it can turn any ordinary dish into a masterpiece.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 medium

Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Winter
December
Spicy
Soup

Method

Heat a pot on a medium-low heat and add the oil or butter. When it’s hot, add the onion, carrot, courgette and garlic and fry for 5–10 minutes until they soften slightly.

Put in the sweet potato and harissa and give everything a stir.

Pour in 900 ml of boiling water and the passata,