Recipe: Vegan Mulligatawny 9 February 2007 10:06 am
Posted by Tracy in : coconut, America's Test Kitchen, vegan, soup, vegetarian, recipes, cooking , 1 comment so farThis soup is a vegan adaptation of a recipe I saw a few months ago on an episode of America’s Test Kitchen called “A Passage to India.” According to ATK’s official site, the episode originally aired two seasons ago (Season 5), which makes me wonder why my friendly local public television station is so slow to air stuff and whether I should give in and subscribe to the service that lets me watch ATK online already. But I digress.
I had never heard of Mulligatawny soup before watching “A Passage to India,” but according to Chris Kimball’s “here’s what can go wrong and what we’re trying to correct” introduction for the recipe, it’s a curried vegetable soup that made its way to the U.S. by way of the English, who of course had colonies in both North America and the Indian subcontinent. Wikipedia confirms that the name Mulligatawny comes from the Tamil for “pepper water,” so one of ATK’s goals for the recipe was to spice it up. I’m happy to say they succeeded, and (more…)
