Spicy Opo Squash Soup with Noodles

Posted on February 20th, 2012 by admin

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Spicy Opo Squash Soup with Noodles

Slimming Eats Recipe

Serves 4

Green – approx 2.5 syns per serving

Extra Easy – approx 2.5 syns per serving

For those of you wondering what is an Opo Squash? it is a bit like an over sized courgette (zucchini), with a pale green firmer skin.

Here you go, this is what one looks like:

so now you are all familiarized with a Opo Squash, onto the recipe.

Ingredients

1 Opo Squash (or if you can’t get hold of one of these you can use 3 large courgettes/zucchini’s)

1 onion, finely chopped

2 cloves of garlic, crushed

1 dried, lemongrass stalk (soaked in hot water for a few minutes to soften)

2 teaspoons of fresh grated ginger

1 red chilli, finely chopped

1 tablespoon of tomato paste

2 teaspoons of hot curry powder

2 teaspoons of fish sauce

2 teaspoons of sugar (2 syns, or use sweetener, and delete 2 syns above)

500ml of chicken stock

1 cup (approx 240ml) of light coconut milk (7.5 syns)

100g noodles

freshly chopped coriander to serve

Frylight or Pam Spray

Method

Peel the Opo squash, cut in half and scrape out seeds. Roughly chop.

Spray a large casserole pot/saucepan over a medium heat with Frylight or Pam spray. Add the onion and Opo squash and cook for a few minutes to soften.

Add the garlic, ginger, lemongrass stalk, curry powder, red chilli and tomato paste to a Mortar and pestle (I thoroughly recommend purchasing one of these, they are great for grind all your spices together for curries etc – you can find one here) and grind it all to a paste.

Add the paste to the onion and opo squash and cook for a further few minutes to coat in all he spices.

Add the stock and fish sauce to the pan, bring to a boil and then simmer on a low heat covered for approx 20mins

Add the noodles to a large bowl and cover with boiling hot water to soften.

Add half the soup to a blender, leaving the remaining half in the pot, and blend till smooth.

Add back to the pot, along with the soften noodles and light coconut milk and then allow to simmer for another 10 minutes or so.

Ladle into bowls and serve topped with freshly chopped coriander. This is a yummy and comforting bowl of soup, which would be great with some added cooked chicken.