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Mexican soup with gourmand quinoa

Sweetcorn, red peppers and onion simmered in vegetable broth, with half blended for body and quinoa stirred through at the end.

Category
Mains
Prep
45 min
Cook
30 min
Serves
6
Two blue and white patterned bowls of corn, red pepper and quinoa soup garnished with fresh coriander, with sweetcorn kernels on the table

Ingredients

  • 100 gTipiak Organic Gourmand Quinoa
  • 450 gcanned sweet corn
  • 30 gbutter
  • 2red peppers, diced
  • 1onion, thinly sliced
  • 4 knife pointshot pepper powder
  • 1 Tbspmaize flour (or wheat flour)
  • 750 mlvegetable broth
  • 500 mlboiling water
  • To tastesalt and pepper

Method

  1. Heat the butter in a large pot and brown the corn, peppers and onion.

  2. Cover and cook for 10 minutes over a low heat, stirring from time to time.

  3. Sprinkle over the flour and stir for 1 minute, then add the broth off the heat. Return to the heat, bring to the boil and cook for 10 minutes.

  4. Remove half of the vegetables from the pot, blend the rest of the soup until smooth and return the vegetables you removed.

  5. Add salt, pepper and the hot pepper powder.

  6. Add the quinoa and the boiling water. Cover and cook for 15 minutes. Serve hot.

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