Pizza Soup

To take to Poppit Sands  - serve just after a New Year's Day Swim

After your gorgeous kids have made you Pizzas for New Years Eve, use up the surplus toppings and make ‘pizza soup’.  Not nearly as alarming as it sounds.

 

Ingredients: 

1 red onion sliced

Olive oil / or chili oil

2 sliced mushrooms

2 tbsp medium curry powder

1 sliced mild chili (optional) or chili flakes

A cup or so of red lentils

1 can pizza topping sauce

1 pint or so of jelly wobble turkey stock or bone broth (omit for the vegan version)

1 can coconut milk

1 chicken stock cube

Salt and pepper

2 cloves garlic finely chopped

1 brown onion diced

4 sticks of celery finely chopped

Pinch of mixed herbs

4 small carrots finely chopped

2 blocks frozen spinach

 

Method: 

Fry red onion, chili oil (olive oil), mushrooms, for a few minutes.

Add curry powder, and fresh chili, fry off.

Add red lentils, fry off.

Add pizza topping sauce, stock, coconut milk, chicken stock cube, salt, pepper, mixed herbs, chopped garlic, brown onion, celery, carrot, frozen spinach.  Simmer gently for half an hour until the veggies are tender and the lentils are soft and mushy.  Add water if you think it is too thick.

Whizz up so fussy people don’t know what’s in it.  Re-heat and put in warmed thermos flasks wrapped in blankets.  Take it to the beach with a cheeky flask of mulled wine and some Christmas cake.   Great after a freezing dip in the sea - but probably great without the outing....