Samosa Soup!!

A while back I went to lunch with my friend Zach at Foodheads. The food was great. I had Samosa Soup, which when I asked if it was vegetarian, turned out to be vegan even. It was delicious. It had strips of fried samosa outsides (whatever that may be) on top and tasted just like the insides of a samosa. I wanted to lick my bowl. Anyway, my friend Addie is now the food reporter for the newspaper, so I thought I'd ask if she could get Foodheads to give up the recipe, and they did! It was published in the paper today with the hilarious note: "Reader my name can't get enough of the vegan samosa soup at Foodheads..." Well, it's a bit of hyperbole, but whatever man, I scored the recipe! Time to add this to the crock pot list.

1 tbsp olive oil

2 tsp mustard seeds

1 yellow onion diced

1/2 tsp chili powder

1 tsp tumeric

1/2 tsp cayenne

1/2 tsp curry powder

1 1/2 tsp fresh ginger (peeled and diced)

1/2 tsp ground coriander

1/2 tsp garam masala

1/2 tsp cumin

2 lb potatoes

3/4 pound fresh or frozen peas (with the price of veggies these days? Frozen all the way)

3 cups water

14 oz coconut milk

8 oz chopped spinach

handful of cilantro chopped

juice of 1 lemon

salt and pepper

1 lime quartered (this is for garnish, so omit if you're not feeling fancy, just hungry)

Heat oil until very hot, add mustard seeds and cook until they begin to pop. Add diced onion and chili powder and cook until onions are soft. Add all the other spices and the potatoes and peas and cook for another 1 to 2 minutes. Add water an simmer until potatoes are soft. Add coconut milk, spinach, cilantro, and lemon juice. Simmer for another five minutes and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Now I just need to figure out how to adapt this to be even less labor intensive and to just involve pitching things into a crock pot at the beginning of the day. I do so love a good bowl of soup. It's generally healthy and lower in calories and fat than many things, and it fills you up quickly because of the high water content (this does not include any kind of cream soup or bisque obviously).