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.

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.

Search Cookidoo® for homemade Chicken Stock Paste in The Basic Cookbook.

Oregano can also be replaced with a mixture of thyme, oregano and marjoram. For dried herbs, use approx. 1 tsp. For fresh herbs, which have a more intense flavor, add sparingly and taste soup before any further additions.