Nice and easy curry-tomato soup

This recipe is quite quick, and not too difficult. I am lucky to have all the listed Indian spice in my kitchen, but you'd be more or less ( probably a bit less, but shhhhh....) as well off using a supermarket curry mix.

The soup is rich and creamy, and though quite healthy, it is really delicious. I tried to take pictures along the process of cooking, but despite my best efforts (and 'creative' editing using hipster apps) they do not look too appetizing. Therefore you'll just have to trust me on that.

Ingredients:

1-2 carrots
2 small sweet potatoes
4-5 baby potatoes
2 tablespoons red lentils
1 box of tomato passata
1 can of coconut milk
2 cups water
3 tablespoons vegetable seasoning powder (or 3 stock cubes)
1/4 lime


Spice:

Tumeric powder
Cayenne pepper
Fenugreek powder
Mild Madras Curry powder
Coriander powder
Mustard seeds
Bay leaves
Cumin

(approx. 1 tbs. each)

Procedure:




1) Cut the vegetables.
    You can cut them in nice cubes if you're not planning to blend the soup.
    Otherwise the shapes and sizes don't really matter.


2) Put the vegetables in a pot full of water.
    Bring to boil. Add all the spice and stock/vegetable powder.
    Cook until the potatoes fall apart when pinched with a fork.


3) Add tomato passata, mix, bring to boil and add the coconut milk.
    Throw in the lime (yes, with the peel!).

4) Cook for another 5-10 minutes.


5) If you are not planning to blend the soup, it is ready to eat!
    If you want to blend it, remember to fish out the bay leaves and lime peel first!

Bon apetit!

Tips:

If you can't find coconut cream in your shop, you can use alpro soy single cream, the soup will be almost as good! Of course, if you're not vegan, the regular cream will also do, though I do recommend trying the soy cream as it has a really nice aroma, that fits quite well with the style of this soup.

If you like onions, you can add some for the taste. All the vegetables in the recipe are somewhat optional, so you can make variations of the soup depending on what you have at hand.

If you are super-lazy, you can make an ultra-quick version of this soup, where you'd just combine water, tomato passata, coconut cream and spices. Just pour everything together, bring to boil, and eat. The taste/effort ratio for this soup is sky-high, and the cost is only about 2 euros.