Cucumber and Mint Soup, with Stuffed Cucumber

For the past few weeks I had been doing exams, so haven’t been doing too much cooking (mostly helping by eating things), but now that that’s all done, I’m cooking something again.

It was a lovely summer’s day, and I love cucumber.

Cucumber & Mint Soup with stuffed Cucumber (mmmmm..)

 

The soup is easy, all you need is:

          -          2 Cucumbers

          -          2 handfuls of fresh mint leaves (we got some fresh peppermint in Moore st.)

          -          Salt, pepper, herbs and a bit of Mixed spice.

Chop the cucumber up roughly, stick into blender with the mint etc. Blend up the whole mixture until very very blended. Make sure you serve cold and with some mint leaves on top J

The stuffed Cucumbers:

You can really stuff them with anything, but we stuffed them with kidney bean, red pepper stuff:

         -          3 Cucumbers

         -          A sweet red pepper (the long, dark red ones)

         -          1 red onion & 2 spring onions

         -          A tin of kidney beans

         -          2 cloves of Garlic, Cumin, Cajun pepper, mixed herbs and chili powder

Hollow out the cucumbers by cutting them in half and sticking a knife down
the centre of the squishy bits, then twist the knife until the innards are all out.

Fry the onion and spring onion then dice and add the red pepper. While frying, drain
the kidney beans and squish them up using a fork or potato masher. Add it
to the pan with  the garlic and spices then cook through. Then leave it to cool a little bit.

Take about a handful of it per section of cucumber, using your hands (trust me; much easier) stuff them with it and serve.

This is a lovely light and refreshing lunch / dinner recipe. We had it with some hummus and bread also and it turned out lovely. But the important thing is that cucumber is amazing and that I hope to eat it for every meal of the day.

See how amazing cucumbers are!: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=53536

Mmmm… cucmbers…..