Fresh from the garden to the kitchen

Our favourite spinach soup recipe:

Serves 4

25g butter

1 medium onion

1 medium potato

1 garlic clove

1 tsp ground cumin

1 litre vegetable stock

50g creamed coconut

250g fresh spinach

salt and pepper

2 tablespoons fresh coriander

lemon or lime juice

Melt butter and cook onion, potato and garlic in a covered saucepan for 10 minutes. Stir in the cumin and cook for 2 minutes. Add the stock. Cover and bring to the boil and simmer for about 15 minutes. Stir in creamed coconut and spinach. Puree and reheat with coriander and lemon juice.

Take care not to cook the spinach too long as this will make the bright green colour of the soup more dull and less attractive.

Recipe extracted from New Covent Garden Soup Company’s “Soup and Beyond”

Other soup recipes we’ve served:

Beetroot and bramley apple soup

Maple roasted carrot soup

USEFUL LINKS

BBC Good Food recipes – http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes

Cairngorms Food and Drink Trail – http://visitcairngorms.com/foodtrails

Taste our Best – http://www.visitscotland.com/about/food-drink/taste-our-best

Scotland Food and Drink network – http://www.scotlandfoodanddrink.org/

Taste of Scotland – http://www.taste-of-scotland.com/

New Covent Garden Soup Company recipes: http://www.newcoventgardensoup.com/recipes/