Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

My gosh this has a kick!

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Based strongly on this recipe.

Ingredients

Healthy oil of your choice (I went a small amount of coconut oil)

1 red chilli chopped - keep seeds if you want it spicy
3 garlic gloves, crushed
1 tsp paprika
1 large pinch cumin seeds
1 tsp chilli powder

1 medium butternut squash peeled and cubed
1 medium potato, peeled and cubed
2 carrots chopped
2 celery sticks
1 large onion

1.5 pints chicken or veg stock

Follow instructions from BBC Good Food website!

Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup

Is it obvious I like food with a bit of a kick?



I use this recipe. But I add two chillis and I don't add mushroom or sweetcorn...cos Ben is awkward. I also go to my local Thai shop and buy rice noodles cos I love skinny skinny noodles! Yum!

Spicy Gnocchi

It's not too spicy, it is an original recipe, whaaaaat! Well, I say 'original'.... I knew we had gnocchi and chorizo so I googled 'gnocchi chorizo' and found this recipe.

But we substituted the basil for one red chilli and threw in some chorizo. Also, we used two peppers, cos you can never have too much veg!

I have to say as well, super easy recipe (I mean, Ben made this...enough said).

Spicy Chicken Stew

I'd bought some stuff to make a pasta sauce but had ended up improvising, leaving me with quite a lot of veg in my fridge. Some googling on bbcgoodfood for a healthy recipe I found Spicy Chicken Stew.



It was yum! Find the original recipe here. It is super easy, and just uses one (large) saucepan. I did tweak the amounts going into it though, since the original recipe was for six!

For two hearty portions:
a packet of chicken drumstricks (we used tesco which weighed in about 430g)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 red chilli (I used two but it was too spicy)
1 red pepper
200g chopped tomatoes
1 tin kidney beans (the recipe says 'kidney beans in chilli sauce' but I just added a tsp chilli powder)
1 tin butter beans
220ml chicken stock
small bunch coriander

Follow the instructions on the website...though I would just leave the skin on, peeling it off raw chicken is a pain in the arse, it'd probably come off easier after the pre-frying anyway!