Papaya Soup

Tinola, a Philippine papaya soup, inspired me to create this. The few recipes I found didn’t have great reviews, so I revised one to make it vegetarian and to use some of my herbs and vegetables in my garden.

Step: 1

Heat coconut oil in a stockpot over medium heat; add onion, red bell pepper, chives, garlic, rosemary, sage, ginger, and chile pepper. Cook and stir until garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute. Add tofu to onion mixture; cook, stirring every 2 minutes, until tofu is golden brown, about 6 minutes. Season with salt.

Step: 2

Mix Worcestershire sauce and lime juice into tofu mixture. Stir water and bouillon together in a bowl until dissolved; pour over tofu mixture. Bring liquid to a simmer, add papaya, loosely cover stockpot, and simmer until papaya is tender yet firm to the bite, about 20 minutes.

Step: 3

Remove stockpot from heat, stir on spinach, cover, and allow to sit until spinach is wilted, 2 to 3 minutes. Ladle soup into serving bowls and top with fried onions.

Per Serving: 221 calories; protein 11.5g; carbohydrates 16.7g; fat 13.8g; sodium 330.2mg.

The word “stew” can process to 2 time a food and a cooking method. Stewing makes slowly cooking piece of meat, vegetables or beans in a tastefull liquid . It’s similar to braising, instead it does have a few notable differences. The meat is chopped into few of pieces but of being processing menu whole , and the liquid all of it covers the contents in a stew as compared to a braise’s halfway all of it . When meat or vegetables are cooked using this method, the resulting dish is called stew.

Stew has a perception for being a rib-sticking eating process that warms you up on a freezing , winter day. It’s true ; a bowl of old menu of beef stew can make warming properties , but stew’s comfort factor more than a way beyond preserving you from the cold . It’s all about those soft and chunks of food and vegetables, swimming in a thick, ultra-rich gravy. The way they come together make the ultimate comfort food, no matter the weather.