Spicy pumpkin coconut soup

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC/Gas 6.

2. Peel the outer coating from the lemon grass stalks and finely chop the white bulbous part of the stalks, discarding the rest. Remove the tough central veins from the kaffir lime leaves.

3. In a food processor blend together the lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, ginger, garlic, chillies and lime juice into a smooth paste. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper.

4. Place the chopped pumpkin in an roasting tray, sprinkle with sea salt and toss with 1 tbsp oil. Roast the pumpkin for 35 minutes until softened.

5. While the pumpkin is roasting make the rice balls. In a food processor pulse-blend half of the cooked rice into a paste. Mix together the rice paste, remaining rice, remaining lemon grass paste, peanuts and chopped coriander. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper.

6. Shape the rice mixture into 25mm balls.

7. Heat the oil for deep-frying in a deep fat-fryer or wok. Once the oil is very hot fry the rice balls in batches until golden-brown, remove with a slotted spoon, drain on kitchen paper and set aside to keep warm.

8. To make the soup heat 1 tbsp oil in a heavy-based saucepan. Gently fry the shallots and cumin seeds for 3-5 minutes, then add in half the paste and fry, stirring often, for 5 minutes until fragrant.

9. Add the roast pumpkin to the pan, mixing well, and fry for 2 minutes.

10. Pour in the stock and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 7-8 minutes.

11. Blend together the pumpkin mixture and the coconut milk until smooth. Gently reheat the soup.

12. To serve, ladle the soup into serving bowls and sprinkle with coriander sprigs, chopped cucumber and mint sprigs and serve with rice balls.

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Ingredients

4 stalks of Lemon grass
6 kaffir lime leaves
2 x 50mm ginger root, peeled
2 garlic clove, peeled
6 red chillies
juice of 2 limes
salt and fresh ground black pepper
500g pumpkin, peeled and chopped
sea salt
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 banana shallots, finely chopped
5g Cumin seeds
600ml vegetable stock
400ml tin coconut milk
fresh coriander sprigs, to garnish
1 Cucumber, chopped & deseeded
fresh mint sprigs, to garnish

For the rice balls:

500g Thai rice, cooked
125g roasted peanuts, crushed
small bunch of coriander, finely chopped
salt and fresh ground black pepper
vegetable oil, for deep-frying

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