Kumara Soup (NZ recipe)

 Ingredients:   

• 2 small onions (1 large)
• 3 medium kumara (Sweet potato)
• 1 teaspoon butter (or margarine)
• 1 Litre chicken Stock (I like my soup thick so used 500 ml)
• 1 teaspoon curry powder
• 1 medium leek
• 250 ml cream (optional)

Method

Finely chop leek & onion

Fry onion & leek with butter till tender. Add curry and fry for two min.

Peel and chop sweet potato and add to crock pot

Add fried leek and onion and stock to potato

• Cook till sweet potato is tender.
• Purée using a stick blender till your soup is a smooth consistency.
• Serve warm with bread or a dash of cream for a creamy taste.

I like my soup quite thick so if you want your soup to be of a runny consistency add in extra stock or cream for a creamy taste.  Kumara is the Maori word for sweet potato. We made this soup as part of our Expedition Earth journey to New Zealand.

Thank you Mrs C in Christchurch New Zealand for this lovely soup recipe.

Blessings

How Great is our God

O Lord, how many and varied are Your works!

In wisdom have You made them all;

the earth is full of Your riches and Your creatures

Psalm 104:24

Blessings

Expedition Earth: New Zealand

We started by stamping Sir N's passport.







We learned all sorts of interesting things:

• We watched Ancient Tuatara Fathers Young
• Tuatara New Zealands Living Fossil (recent mainland release information)
• Henry the Tuatara's Blog (Henry is 110 years old and lives at Invercargill Museum)
• We made poi and watched Maori Poi Dance - Melville Intermediate School  
• Maori Poi Dance ~ Takitimu Performing Arts School 
• Watched a great video about Wetta by Answers in Genesis. (scroll down the page to find it)
• Researched Population statistics
• Looked at National Geographic Kids all about New Zealand. 
• Kotane Maori information and photographs. 
• Youtube video of Ko Tane and Willowbank
• Kiwi in Nocturnal House

Rose N with North Island Brown Kiwi

 Here are our worksheets

New Zealand flag and Coat of Arms

NZ map, information and Note Book page

• Sir N's favourite piece of information was that there are more sheep than people in New Zealand! Currently 7 sheep to every 1 person.
• We made a sheep from a pattern, cotton wool and wriggly eyes 
• Kiwi eat worms.

 Discovered some great books at the Library  

• National Geographic Countries of the world: New Zealand (my favourite)
• First peoples of Oceania (Trisha Sertori)
• Our Neighbours: New Zealand (Michael and Jane Pelussey)
• Ask about Oceania: New Zealand
• Kiwi: New Zealand's remarkable bird (Neville Peat)

Borrowed some true stories from a Kiwi friend   

• Kahu the cautious Kiwi (Brian Birchall)
• Penny and Pocket (Gwenda Turner)
• The Builder's Cat (Gwenda Turner)

We made some great Kumara soup
(step by step coming soon)

All in all it was a great week and we both had fun

Blessings