Gorgeous red birds eye chillies and some fresh zucchini in the the weeks vegetable supply, set me to searching for the perfect ‘winter’ soup. Broadly adapted from Simply Recipes ‘Spicy Zucchini Soup’, the curried chilli zucchini soup with grated zucchini and with walnuts and turmeric, is one treat you will come back to again and again. The varied textures and balance of flavours are everything one would want a soup to be.
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I had used green tomatoes often in salads, as they were familiar vegetables that grew in my mothers kitchen garden, ready to be plucked from the vine. The possibility of green tomatoes in other dishes struck me only when I came across ‘Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe.’ I enjoyed the movie and then subsequently the book, inspite of the dark overtones that creep into one murky chapter. At the end of the book there were some interesting recipes using Green Tomatoes, which caught my foodie fancy. From there to this Green Tomato Corn Soup with Turmeric and Lemongrass was easy.
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