Avocado And Spinach Soup

A cold avocado and spinach soup to cool you down on a hot day!

I love food too much – both raw and cooked – to sign up to the raw food-movement full time. I’m happy though, to incorporate raw food as part of my diet – especially in the summer when it is hot outside.

Whether you are on a raw food diet or not, this cold avocado and spinach soup is a really fresh, light and immensely healthy soup – and it’s surprisingly filling.

To make it more of a meal you can combine the soup with a salad and/or some good bread. If you want to make the meal a complete raw food meal, you can combine it with salad like my super delicious Orange and Tomato Salad.

I am a HUGE lover of avocados and eat half an avocado on most days of the week – if not in a salad or in a soup like this one, then sliced on top of rye sourdough bread.

Avocados are rich in heart-healthy unsaturated fat and vitamin E. Spinach is simply a nutritional goldmine (see Nutritional Information). The combination of the two - together with all the other ingredients – makes for a super-healthy soup.

I serve this avocado and spinach soup with a dollop of natural yogurt and dry-roasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds. If you are a raw-food follower, you’d obviously have to use un-roasted seeds.

Topping the soup with pumpkin and sunflower seeds will add a lot of healthy nutrients to the soup. Between them these two seeds are rich in essential Omega 3 and Omega 6 fats plus several vitamins and minerals. Pumpkin seeds are also protein-rich and will help to make you feel fuller on less food.

Alternatively, you could serve the soup with some crumbled feta cheese (use a good one made from sheep and goat’s milk), chopped chives and pumpkin and sunflower seeds.

For 2-4 people (depending on what else you are serving)
2 large, ripe avocados

100g, 3½oz, 3½ cup, fresh spinach

4 spring onions (scallions), chopped

3 tablespoons chopped fresh chives

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

12 almonds, chopped

2 tablespoons lemon juice

500ml, 18floz, 2 1/5 cups, water

Salt and pepper to taste

Place all the ingredients in a food processor or blender and blend until smooth. Check the seasoning and serve with yogurt and seeds, or feta cheese, chopped chives and seeds.

“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” Franz Kafka

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