Coconut Carrot Soup With Shiitake and Spring Onion

This carrot soup goes fantastically well with the shiitake cilantro stir-fry. The recipe makes a rather mild soup, so for anyone preferring more spicy food I would recommend adding more ginger to the soup.

Coconut Carrot Soup With Shiitake and Spring Onion [Vegan]

Ingredients

Soup:

• 2 cups water
• 1 can full-fat coconut milk
• 1.5 tbsp. vegetable stock
• 5 large carrots, chopped
• 1 small clove garlic
• ½ thumb-size ginger (or more for spicier soup)

Mushroom Stir-Fry:

• 12 ounces shiitake mushrooms (halved if large)
• 1 thumb size ginger, finely chopped
• 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
• 2 tbsp tamari (or other gluten free soy sauce)
• ⅓ cup water
• 1 large bunch cilantro, finely chopped (stems included)
• 2 spring onions (thinly sliced, half the greens included)
• Juice from one lime

Preparation

1. Start off by doing all the chopping: carrots, cilantro, garlic, ginger, spring onion and mushrooms (if needed).
2. Put the water, coconut milk, vegetable stock and chopped carrots in a pot and boil for three to four minutes until the carrots start to soften slightly.
3. During these few minutes, stir-fry the mushrooms on medium to high heat in a pan for a couple of minutes together with the water, the tamari, the chopped ginger and garlic. Then remove from the stove, and add the chopped spring onion and the cilantro.
4. Transfer the soup (carrots/water/coconut milk) to a food processor, add the garlic and the ginger and run on full speed for half a minute or until completely smooth. Then pour into serving bowls, and add a very generous serving of the mushroom/spring-onion/cilantro mix. Squeeze over some lime and serve immediately.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-recipe/mild-coconut-carrot-soup/