I’m feeling a little under the weather this week. Combine that with the cold, rainy weather yesterday, and it was time for some soup.
- 2c water
- 2T miso paste
- 1 can coconut milk
- 2 sticks of lemon grass
- 1 eggplant, chopped into bite-sized pieces
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic, minced
- handful cilantro, chopped
- 1c cooked brown rice (optional)
- Siracha, or your favorite hot sauce, to taste
- juice of 1 lime
In a soup pot or dutch oven, combine the first five ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes or until the eggplant softens.
Add the remaining ingredients except for the lime juice, and simmer for just a few minutes more. Stir in the lime juice and serve!
It’s a little unusual to add the garlic so late in the game, but I wanted it barely cooked in this situation for the maximum benefit. You can check out a bit about its immune-boosting properties over here. The lime juice gives a healthy dose of vitamin C for even more immune system power! I had two giganto bowls and packed a third helping for lunch today. Soup, do your thing!
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That does look like a wonderful get well soup–I’m sending healthy thoughts your way! Anything with eggplant, garlic, and lemongrass is definitely a recipe for health!
Hope you feel better Becky! I’m afraid of getting sick, it seems everyone is around me! That soup looks fantastic.
Hi,
I am a Filipina and we cook a lot of food with coconut milk. you could also make vegetable saute with coconut milk. saute garlic and onion, add string beans (cut into 2 inch lengths), add pumpkin (cubed in large chunks), add the coconut milk, and then the swamp cabbage. it works with bitter gourd also, and okra. It’s not really a soup, but more of a vegetable saute with sauce. the coconut milk will thicken from the pumpkin (which will get smushed around the edges as it cooks, it’s the smushed bits that thickens the sauce) alternatively you could add cornstarch. :)
That sounds lovely, Lea Alissa! I should definitely give that a whirl. Do you think it would work with other winter squash? We don’t have pumpkin on hand, but our CSA did deliver some other gourds.
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