If you ever read Roald Dahl as a child, you would understand
how fascinating the worlds he created were. The first book of his that I read
was The BFG and I was utterly enthralled by the giant who ate the huge
repulsive snozzcumbers. Snozzcumbers seemed to be from the cucumber family but
were revolting in taste – to the BFG that is. I remember I used to grimace
everytime the BFG had to eat one and dream of drinking the delicious
frobscottle someday.
I made this cold cucumber soup thinking of the BFG and how
if he had had this, snozzcumbers (or cucumbers) wouldn’t have seemed so vile
after all.
Ingredients:
2 cups cucumber, chopped finely
2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
3 cloves garlic
½ tsp lime/lemon zest
2 tsp lime juice
1 cup hung curd / cream
1 ½ tsp salt
1/4th tsp black pepper
1 tbsp olive oil
Method:
1.
Blend all the ingredients apart from the curd in
a food processor with 1 ½ cups of water. Chill it in the fridge for a few
hours.
2.
Before serving, add the curd and mix thoroughly.
