Madras Soup

This is a new category for the blog where I'm going to post some of my Best Ever recipes.  I really like to cook and bake and for the most part, am happy to eat anything!!  However, there are a few recipes that I've stumbled upon, been given or begged to have.  I'll update with pictures as I make them over the next few weeks.  I'm going to start with Madras Soup...so delicious and my friend Rebecca Haggett just facebooked me for the recipe! 

This was the house soup in the restaurant, My Place, in Smiths Falls.  It has the classic Indian curry taste with a bit of sweet.  Yum!  My quite persuasive and persistent Aunt begged for the recipe from the chef.  Enjoy!!

Madras Soup

Ingredients
1 cup finely chopped Onion
1 tablespoon Butter
1/2 cup chopped Celery
4 teaspoons Curry Powder
1 1/4 teaspoons Tumeric
1 1/4 teaspoons Coriander
4 cups Chicken Stock
1 can Coconut Milk
2 cups Whipping Cream
1 chopped Apple
1/2 cup plumped Raisins (soak in water)
1/2 cup shredded, unsweetened Coconut
1 can mango, drained and chopped
1 can apricots, drained and chopped
(Save juice from both cans)
2 T Corn Starch

Directions:
Saute onion in butter until soft.  Add celery and saute.  Add spices.  Mix well.  Add stock and coconut milk.  Stir to blend.

Add apples, raisins and coconut, cook until apples begin to soften.

Add mango and apricots and cook further until all fruit begins to soften.  Add cream and heat again.  Mix juice from mango and apricots with corn starch and add to soup.  Cook until thickened.