How to make Jamaican Vegetable Soup

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This Jamaican vegetable soup makes a mouthwatering dish that bursts with Caribbean flavours.

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Pumpkin, eddoes, cassava, chayote, and scotch bonnet peppers make this spicy stew super nutritious, with less than 500 calories per bowl.

dairyfree
glutenfree
vegan
fibrerich
lowsugars
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Squash is so nutritious that just a cup of this vegetable covers all your daily intake for vitamin A and vitamin C.

Step 1

Soak the dried yellow split peas in water for at least two hours or even better overnight. In a deep pan, add finely chopped onions, crushed garlic, diced carrots, diced celery, grated ginger root, and sliced scotch bonnet chillies.

Step 1

Add a bit of water and sizzle the ingredients for 5 minutes until fragrant.

Step 2Part 1

Next, peel and dice the butternut squash, potatoes, cassava, chayote, and eddoes. Add these veggies and the yellow split peas to the pan.

Step 2Part 2

Cook for 5 minutes and then stir in the coconut milk and enough water to cover the veggies. Season with dried thyme, cayenne pepper, and allspice, and simmer for a further 15 minutes.

Step 3

Meanwhile, mix the buckwheat flour, oil, water, coriander, and salt in a bowl. Knead these ingredients into a soft dough and then roll out bite-size dumplings.

Step 4

Add the buckwheat balls to the soup and simmer for 20 more minutes. Serve each bowl with two dumplings and garnish with sliced scotch bonnet chillies, thyme, and fresh herbs.

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