Spicy Pepper Tomato Soup With Cucumber Yogurt Recipes

SPICY RED PEPPER TOMATO SOUP WITH GREEK YOGURT

Steps:

• Wash and dry tomato and peppers. Cut in half lengthwise and core.
• Meanwhile wrap the garlic in foil and roast in 400 degree oven for 10 minutes or until soft .
• Toss the tomato and pepper with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper and grill on high heat 4-5 minutes or until tender.
• Remove garlic from oven and squeeze roasted garlic out of each individual clove.
• Place roasted vegetables and garlic in a food processor and pulse until thick paste consistency.
• Place the mixture in a large pot and dilute with chicken broth over medium heat.
• Reduce a bit until desired consistency. Add olive oil and adjust flavor with salt and pepper if necessary.
• Combine yogurt, lemon zest and hot sauce in a small mixing bowl.
• Divide soup into four separate soup bowls. Add a dollop of yogurt in the center of the soup and garnish basil and chopped scallion.

SPICY CUCUMBER SOUP WITH YOGURT BY SY

Steps:

• Put cucumbers in a bowl or colander and sprinkle with salt and toss; let stand for about 15-30 minutes
• Put yogurt, sour cream and about 1 cup water into a bowl and blend till smooth (Like the consistency of buttermilk)
• Add cucumber, scallion, garlic, lemon, jalapeno pepper to yogurt mixture. Use a motorized hand blender to chop the cucumber finer and leaving some small chunks; not to fine though. (A Braun hand mixer-chopper works well for blending the yogurt in step #2 and this step #3
• Put into refrigerator to chill
• Serve cold and topped with any combo of fresh dill, mint leaves, chivesà Mrs. Dash spices and/or salt to taste.