Pirate soup recipe

This Pirate Soup recipe is hot, so I hope you can all cope you bunch of landlubbers.

Ever dreamed of being a pirate, sailing around the Caribbean, sitting in a hammock under a blue sky, sun beating down on you all around you can hear the crying of macaws, ahh lovely.

This soup has all the elements from roasted red peppers for warmth, sweet potatoes for silky velvety texture, roasted chilli for a fiery kick, coconuts to calm it down and lime to add a bit of zing. I want to hear tales of you behaving like a pirate and drinking rum after you have eaten this soup.

Ingredients

Vegetable stock

4 sweet potato peeled and diced

3 red peppers (or jar of roasted peppers)

tin coconut milk

fresh red chilli,

onion

lime

fresh coriander

Directions

Roast the peppers and chilli until blackened. The simplest way to do this is to put them on the gas burner or if you have a air fryer set it to the highest temperature and blast the peppers and chilli. If you have no air fryer or gas burner then you can easily buy fire roasted peppers in jars and the chilli can be left raw or use a bit of chipotle chilli flakes.

Heat a little oil in a pan and add onion and sweet potatoes cook for 15 mins . Peel and deseed the chilli and peppers and add to the vegetables . Add the coconut milk and 500ml of vegetable stock , cook for ten minutes. Garnish with fresh coriander and lime juice

Health benefits

This pirate soup recipe has many health benefits.

Chilli contains natural pain relief, it lowers cholesterol and clears congestion by stimulating secretions that help clear mucus from your stuffed up nose or congested lungs. (which is why you should have a curry if you have a cold).

In addition Chilli peppers’ bright red colour signals its high content of beta-carotene or pro-vitamin A. The anti-infection vitamin A is essential for healthy mucous membranes, which line the nasal passages, lungs, intestinal tract and urinary tract and serve as the body’s first line of defence against invading pathogens.

Chillies are also thought to help you lose weight – All that heat you feel after eating hot chilli peppers takes energy -and calories to produce. Even sweet red peppers have been found to contain substances that significantly increase thermogenesis (heat production) and oxygen consumption for more than 20 minutes after they are eaten.

Sweet Potatoes are orange which means they contain beta carotene or pro-vitamin A which as I have just said is the anti infection vitamin so no more colds or flu.