Even on Summer days you can enjoy an healthy soup

INGREDIENTS:

40g Sicilian brown lentils

40g white or brown rice

1 topinambur

1 small potato

1 small carrot

1/4 coliflower

2g ginger

4 garlic cloves

1 sciallot

Salt, black pepper, extra virgin olive oil, kloves, coriander, red paprika, bay leaf

TOPPING: you can top up with pinenuts slightly fryed or roasted, fresh coriander, lime juice and extra virgin olive oil

1 Chop ginger, garlic, sciallot and carrot then slightly fry them in a pan adding all the spices and cooking at very low fire.

2 Add the chopped topinambur,potatoes lentils and rice and cover with 500ml boining water, add salt and let it cook for 20 min using low fire and a cover.

3 Make sure the veggies are always covered with liquid. Add water if necessary.

4 When lentils and topinambur are soft turn the fir off and take the bay leaf and the kloves away. Blend half of the soup leaving the other half hole.

5 Top it as you like it and serve hot or cold