curry soup 7132
Good friends have invited us to Vals, a beautiful, lost village in the Swiss mountains. There is a fabulous hotel, its called hotel 7132, like the postal code of the village. My friend Anka gushed about the curry soup they serve in the restaurant … to be honest, I would never order a soup, even less a curry soup, but she seemed so convinced that I tried it. Wow! It was the best soup I ever had, with a sweet mango and raisin chutney in the middle of the plate, then a creamy curry soup that kind of smelled like a “Riz Casimir” from the eighties. Amazing! I tried several times back home, we asked the chef about the ingredients, and finally I was able to put most of the pieces together and came up with this copy. You have to try it! Believe me, you won’t regret!
Ingredients for four:
4 stalks of celery (about 150g)
1 big onion
4 small potatoes (about 160g)
2 tea spoons of mild yellow curry
2 tea spoons of spicy madras curry (the good one, from India)
1 tea spoon of turmeric (very healthy!)
1 banana
8 dl of vegetable stock
2 dl of heavy cream
4 table spoons of mango chutney
The chutney you can prepare the day before and keep it for weeks. See my other blog for it. Otherwise you buy one in the store, no problem!
In a non-sticking frying pan, sear in butter and olive oil the celery, potatoes and onion (all cut into small cubes). Put it on medium heat, it mustn’t become coloured, just soft. Add the curry and the banana and let it sear for about ten minutes, stirring a bit a long the way. Separately, in a deep pan, heat 8 dl of water, add the
vegetable stock cubes, then transfer the veggies into the stock and let simmer for about 30 minutes.
With a hand blender, blend everything to a very fine and smooth texture, then transfer it through a sieve into a new pan (this step is optional but the texture just gets amazing), add the cream and season to taste (if necessary), with salt. I don’t put pepper as the madras curry is very spicy already.
To serve, put a table spoon of the chutney into a deep plate, then pour in the soup, as shown in the picture.
Enjoy!
