The Unfindable Profile Soup

Ingredients

• 1.5 liters chicken stock
• 800 g ripe tomatoes
• 2 onions
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 red bell pepper
• 2 red chili peppers
• 2 limes (juice and zest)
• 4 eggs
• 1 bunch coriander
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• salt and black pepper to taste

Method

1. Bring water to a boil and hard-boil the eggs for 8 minutes. Cool, peel, and halve them.
2. Chop onions and garlic. Roughly chop tomatoes, bell pepper, and chilies.
3. Heat olive oil in a soup pot. Sauté onion, garlic, bell pepper, and chilies for 5 minutes.
4. Add tomatoes and cumin. Sauté for 3 minutes more.
5. Pour in the stock. Bring to a boil and simmer gently for 25 minutes.
6. Blend the soup until smooth. Season with lime juice, zest, salt, and pepper.
7. Roughly chop coriander.
8. Pour the soup into bowls. In each bowl, arrange a halved egg diagonally, partly hidden under coriander leaves.
9. Place a whole red chili visibly on top of the eggs in each bowl.

Serving notes

• Serve with extra lime wedges for more sourness.
• Sprinkle fresh coriander over the eggs just before serving for the search effect.
• Serve with toasted bread for dipping.