Onion and thyme soup with onion bhajis

Name: Onion and thyme soup with onion bhajis
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 cm fresh ginger, peeled and grated; 1 red chilli, de-seeded and finely chopped; ½ teaspoon mild curry powder; ½ teaspoon cumin seeds, crushed; 1 Onion, Thyme and Garlic Soup recipe; 2 red onions, halved and finely sliced; sunflower oil, for frying; 50 g tempura flour or cornflour; 1 garlic clove, crushed; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 50 g tempura flour or cornflour

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple to Sensational

By Jun Tanaka

Published 2010

About

At Pearl, I usually serve a soup as an appetizer. But whatever soup it is, we always garnish it with something that enhances the flavour and presentation and adds contrast in taste and texture. In this instance I’ve added onion bhajis. The spices and crispy texture add an exciting contrast to the creamy onion soup.

Ingredients

1 Onion, Thyme and Garlic Soup recipe
sunflower oil, for frying

Starter
Soup
Sensational

Method

Make the Onion, Thyme and Garlic Soup.
Place the red onions in a bowl. Add the chilli, ginger, cumin, curry powder, garlic and seasoning and leave for 30 minutes.
Using your hands, mix the tempura flour into the onion mixture. Shape into six balls.
Half fill a saucepan with oil and heat until a tiny piece of the mixture sizzles when dropped