Pumpkin soup and chickpea and feta salad

 

Here's Coco's dish of the day, with the chickpea and feta salad again and a stonker pumpkin soup. We don't have a recipe because she 'Yolo'd it'. There were some nice spices in there. 

Pumpkin soup with fish stock

Yes you heard me. That's right. In fact it wasn't even fish stock but prawn stock, from the shells of some very large shrimp we had in a curry. Which was bizarrely made with butter... weird combo, but it seemed to work. So, fry your onions and soften your pumpkin, whizz it with the stock and season up. Served here with dark rye sourdough and it was delicious. For a highly comforting, if proteinless, meal, it was great. 

Corn and pumpkin pizza dough base

Yes.

• Boil your peeled pumpkin chunks in salty water until they're very soft. Drain most of the water, but not quite all.
• Mash into a hot liquidy mush. 
• Add enough masa harina until you can fork it together into a yellow tortilla-like consistency. 
• Let rest for 10 mins. 
• Knead until you have a lump of bright orange playdoh. 
• Roll out between plastic to fairly thin, place on baking tray and cut to size. 
• Grill on one side, flip over, and grill on the other until lightly coloured. 

And there, ladies and gents, is your LoFo thin crust pizza dough, ready to receive the toppings of your choice. Enjoy.

Pumpkin and Spinach Curry

• 1 tsp black mustard seeds
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• red chilli
• crushed garlic
• 2 red onions, finely chopped
• 2 tomatoes, finely chopped
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp ground tumeric
• 1kg pumpkin, peeled and cubed
• 25g dessicated coconut
• 1 bunch spinach, trimmed and rinsed

 

(rice and plain yoghurt to serve)

 

 

Fry mustard seeds in hot vegetable oil, add chiliad n garlic. Add onion, sauté. Add tomato, salt, ground coriander and turmeric. Stir. Add pumpkin, coconut and 250ml water. Mix, cover, simmer slowly for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

 

 

Just before serving, stir the spinach leave in and allow them to sit in the hot curry for a few minutes.

 

 

 

Serve with rice and plain yoghurt.