Spicy Chili Mango Soup

Name: Spicy Chili Mango Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 2 mangoes ((peeled and seeded)); 1 red bell pepper ((stem and seeds removed and cut into large pieces)); 1 1/2 cup sugar-plum ((cherry tomatoes sliced thin)); 1 chili pepper ((thai)); 1/2 lime juice; 1/2 cup water ((more or less to desired consistency 1 small handful fresh basil, chiffanaud))

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Christine Roseberry in Soups

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Easy

Ingredients

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Total

15min

Serves

Level

Easy

Ingredients

Ingreds.

Total

15min

An age old question: what’s a fruit, and what’s a vegetable? Are tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers really fruits just because they contain seeds? Most children feel they know the answer intuitively: fruit is sweet and goes with ice cream and smoothies, and vegetables belong in salads.

This Spicy Chili Mango Soup adds a whole new layer of complexity into this timeless debate. Maybe fruits are vegetables!

With the combination of sweet and spicy, this mango soup has a distinctively Thai feel. There’s no cuisine like Thai cuisine for blending contrasting flavors flawlessly into mouthwatering dishes. Its a world of sweet and spicy, and hot and sour. This soup would fit right in!

Us North Americans could learn a lot from Thai, Burmese and other cuisines from distant lands. How to use sweet fruits with savory dishes is right at the top of that list, and it might topple the age-old divide between fruit and vegetables once and for all.

This Spicy Chili Mango Soup adds a whole new layer of complexity into this timeless debate. Maybe fruits are vegetables!

Ingredients

2 mangoes (peeled and seeded)
1 red bell pepper (stem and seeds removed and cut into large pieces)
1 1/2 cup sugar-plum (cherry tomatoes sliced thin)
1 chili pepper (thai)
1/2 lime juice
1/2 cup water (more or less to desired consistency 1 small handful fresh basil, chiffanaud)

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Directions

Prep

5 min

Total

15 min

Blend all the above ingredients, minus 1/2 cup of cherry tomatoes, in Vitamix on high until smooth. Pour into a beautifully colored bowl and garnish with the rest of the tomatoes and fresh basil.
Enjoy this sweet and savory mango soup as it nourishes your body one spoonful at a time!

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Chef: Christine Roseberry

Christine Roseberry is a Registered Nurse and Holistic Nutrition Practitioner. She has been healing from fibromyalgia naturally through a raw food diet and healthy lifestyle. It is her hope to inspire you to take charge of your own health to create that GLOWING health from the inside out!