Thai Chickpea Soup

When someone asks me for a quick, cheap and healthy recipe, this one is on the top of my mind. It is amazingly easy to make and adaptable to your own taste. Simply throw in any of your favorite veggies and see if it works. Since the consistency is quite thick you could eat it as a soup as well as a sauce, like my colleague likes to do.

Serves: 4

Time: 20 min

You need:

1 leek, in rings

1 red pepper, chopped

1 courgette (zucchini), chopped 

2 cans of chickpeas, drained 

1 can of coconut milk 

2/3 tsp green thai curry paste (check for sugar!)

300 ml vegetable broth, from cube (check for gluten!)

2 fresh limes, 1 for soup, 1 to garnish in thick slices
fresh coriander

1. Heat up some olive/coconut oil in a large soup pan. 
2. Sauté the leek until semi- transparent
3. Add the pepper, courgette and the thai curry paste and fry for apr. 3 min.
4. Slowly pour in the coconut milk, vegetable broth and the chickpeas
5. Stir until boiling point and let it slowly cook for 5/10 min, add the juice of 1 lemon, just squeeze it
6. garnish with the other lemon and fresh coriander 

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rice noodles with beef

A fun recipe


Preparation time: 20 min
Serves: 4


You need:
300g green beans
300g rice-noodles
1 lime
1,5 tablespoons of honey
2 tablespoons fish sauce
300g beef/ steak
1 red pepper
2 onions
1/2 iceberg lettuce
fresh mint, roughly diced (optional)

1. Remove the ends of the green beans and break them in half, cook the beans in 8 minutes.
2. Grate the zest of the lime and press the lime. Mix the juice, the grinds the honey and the fish sauce in a bowl.
3. Cook the noodles like it says on the description.
4. Cut the pepper in little pieces, the seeds are best removed by cutting the pepper in half and removing the ends, then rolling the halves between the palms of your hands vertically, the seeds will fall out. Cut the onions in rings.
5. Heat some oil in a wok, stir-fry the beef 3 minutes, take it out and add a bit of pepper.
6. Stir-fry the onions and pepper in the leftover oil for 2 minutes, then add the noodles, beans and the lime mixture. Let it cook for another 2/3 minutes.
7. Add the beef and the lettuce and let it warm up thoroughly.

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