The BFG's Cold Cucumber Soup

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

1/4^th 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.