Replace water with chicken stock, or add 2 tsp chicken stock paste and reduce salt.

Select a mature squash for a more aromatic and sweeter flavor.

To make your own chicken stock paste, see Cookidoo® for the recipe.

Fish maw is a dried seafood product. It is rich in protein and gelatin. Sea coconut is a common soup ingredient in summer. It has a nourishing effect on the lungs, removes dryness and clears internal heat.

Search Cookidoo® to make your own beef stock paste or replace beef stock paste with 2 beef stock cubes.

For best results and to avoid crushing ingredients or getting ingredient spirals tangled in the blade, it is recommended to use fruit and vegetables with a diameter of 5 cm. The minimum length for ingredients processed with Spiralizer should measure approximately 5 cm, while the maximum length processed should measure approximately 11 cm.

Drizzle noodles with oil to avoid sticking after step 1.

To make your own bread crumbs: cube 5 oz day old bread. Place bread cubes into mixing bowl and grate 15-30 sec/speed 7 . If you don't have day old bread, dry the bread in the oven

Garnish with chopped aromatic herbs, croutons, toasted seeds, a drizzle of cream or extra virgin olive oil.

You can use frozen monkfish and prawns, allowing them to defrost first.

This delicately flavoured soup would be equally at home on the table of a fine restaurant, as a starter at a dinner party, or as a lunch served with crusty bread. You can substitute smoked mackerel or kippers for the Arbroath Smokie if you wish - all are oily fish which are rich in vitamins A and D and omega-3 fatty acids.

It is said that a Buddhist monk was enticed to jump over a monastery wall for a bowl of this soup, giving up his vegetarian ways. A traveling poet said the soup was so good that Buddha himself would jump over the wall for a taste; thereby giving the soup its name.

To make your own Vegetable Stock Paste , find recipe on Cookidoo®.

Instead of liquid stock, use 750 g water and 1½ tsp stock paste or 1½ stock cubes, crumbled. Search Cookidoo® for recipes to make your own stock or stock paste.

Depending on the brand, red curry paste may vary in intensity and saltiness. Adjust salt to taste.