Things that can happen when you are pressed for time:
-You leave the house with your dress on inside out.
-You leave the house with only one earring on – you think you put in the other but it remains on the floor of your bedroom.
-You end up rushing to a function only to find that nobody is there and you have the date completely wrong and it is in fact the following week.
-You make this delicious 5 Minute Chilled White Bean, Cucumber, Mint & Yogurt Soup.
All of which has happened to me.
The lovely Tori Haschka from Eat Tori was kind enough to send me a copy of her ebook,One Month Carb Detox. After falling ill, she found that white carbs, which she had always been told to add to her meals became her enemy. I’m finding that I am turning more and more to blogs these days rather than recipe books because simply bloggers seem to test recipes. I have found that while a lot of books have pretty pictures, the recipes don’t seem to work or the picture looks nothing like what you have produced. And pictures are what sell a recipe to me-I usually see a picture and my mind says “me wanty!”
I had almost everything for this soup in my fridge and pantry and with literally about 10 minutes to make dinner, and knowing that we didn’t want scrambled eggs again, I decided to make Tori’s Chilled White Bean, Cucumber, Mint and Yogurt Soup. It was hot that day and a refreshing soup was immediately in order. The reason why there aren’t any process photos was literally because it was finished before I even knew it. Within less than 5 minutes I was dipping a spoon into the smooth, flavoursome, cooling soup and thinking what a great idea it was.
So tell me Dear Reader, what is your favourite 5 minute meal? And have you ever turned up to something on the completely wrong day?
5 Minute Chilled White Bean, Cucumber, Mint & Yogurt Soup
Serves 1-2
- 1x 400g tin of white beans, rinsed and drained well (cannellini beans)
- 1 Lebanese cucumber
- 1 small garlic clove, peeled
- Zest and juice of ½ lemon
- 1 handful of mint leaves
- 1 cup of natural yoghurt
- 1 ice cube
- 1 handful of shelled pistachio nuts
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- Handful green olives (optional) pitted and sliced
- salt and pepper to taste
1. Drain the white beans and rinse well. Place them along with the lemon zest, lemon juice, yoghurt, garlic and ¾ of the mint leaves. Process until smooth. Add an ice cube to chill.
2. If you prefer a smoother, more elegant soup strain through a strainer. Season with salt, pepper and olive oil. Divide soup into bowls. Top with slivers of green olive, mint and pistachio nuts. Drizzle with olive oil.
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I really have to try this. The combination of flavours sounds exquisite!
Refreshing and scrumptious! A wonderful summer soup.
Cheers,
Rosa
No, thankfully I have not shown up for something on the wrong day! But I did notice that I worked out with my top on inside-out the other day! Oh, I took two different shoes to work one winter, so I had to wear my sneakers all day. Quite a site with my outfit.
This sounds like a lovely summer soup, I will bookmark it for those warmer months.
Gorgeous, gorgeous photos! My favourite 5-minute meals aren’t really meals… more like peanut butter maple syrup oatbran, or cold tofu mashed with vegemite and nutritional yeast
This looks absolutely delicious. I am going to try it the minute I get back to Brisbane. I am at the airport in Helsinki on my way home.
That looks so pretty and it’s so good to have recipes up your sleeve that can put a meal on the table in five minutes. You left the house with your dress on inside out? Oh dear. And you turned up to a function a week early? I did that at the ballet. Turned up with my mother to the Opera House, sat down enjoying a champagne, then went to enter the theatre and discovered we weren’t meant to be there until the next week. All dressed up and nowhere to go! xx
sounds perfect for summer, might have to wait a few months more in NZ! Freezing today.
LOve the idea of this soup. While I have made many chilled soups with yogurt, I never thought to put white beans in one. Until now.
Of course, worn two styles of different shoes (not on purpose as with earrings), gotten dolled up to go to a party or event and turned up on the wrong day, yes, yes, the list goes on. And I don’t even think it is age as some of these happened years ago!
Love your stories Lorraine, yes several times I have mixed up dates and turned up on wrong dates or wrong times…favorite 5 minute meal is poached eggs on toast or Chinese 2 minute noodles with a couple of eggs. Love this recipe, perfect for warm weather. Just wondering when you say process could you use a blender instead of a food processor?
Now this really is my kind of ‘cooking’
! Love the addition of pistachios: I usually reach for slivered almonds quickly toasted. Recipe printed out and may be tonight’s supper 
! White carbs like bread, cake, rice and pasta are every person’s enemy: too many of us have yet to believe that!! My favourite 5-minute meal depends entirely what I have left over in the fridge: usually a big, colourful salad with some cold protein from the day before or surrounded by quickly sauteed squid rounds a la Mediterranean. I’m bad with many matters, but keep my schedules pretty accurate – perchance am not quite as busy as you 
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Hi Stefanie! Hehe I’m so glad that I’m not the only one!
I’m a big fan of eggs completing a quick meal too! Oh and yes absolutely, a blender would probably suit this better than a food processor 
Lorraine, I’m so glad other people have days like this too!
I did once turn up to a Uni exam at the wrong time – it was a morning exam, so naturally I thought it started at 2pm. I sat in the allocated seat, feeling something was amiss. Then someone wrote a totally unfamiliar course code on the black board and I had that sinking feeling.
I slunk outta that room and went straight to the University office where I explained my dilemma. Thankfully they let me sit a make-up exam but, to this day, I still have the occasional dream that I never graduated from University as I forgot to complete a subject.
Wow that looks really healthy, and although there’s no meat (Carnivore I am), it looks quite appetising! Hahaha Lebanese Cucumbers… been using a lot of that in my dishes lately.
Wow it’s quite simple, and sounds refreshing, despite the fact there’s no… meat (carnivore I am haha)!!
5 minutes chef, JUST heard inside my head!
Was going to make …, but changed it to this instead!
Matt Preston’s Heinz bean soup, easy peasy too!
After all, beans are a good source of extra fiber too!
MANY years ago, showed up at work on a Saturday! TRUE!
Looked around, when no one was there, the door opened …thought was like a surprise party, but one of my managers got the day wrong and showed up too! We both laughed that we BOTH got the wrong day! Our secret for life was what we did say!
Ahhhh, this makes me think of happy thoughts. It’s brutally cold out here but this soup makes me happy =) Sunshine in a bowl!
Yum! This sounds delicious!! I love recipe books but more so than ever I tend to google new dishes.
…and yes I have done all of the things you mentioned at the start of the book, plus when my children were little I turned up at a playground in my pjs with my hair not done.
I sat in the car for a full five minutes contemplating whether we should just get out and play any way. The kids were perfectly prepared and I knew if I started the car to return home we would have tears! I couldn’t do it, I had to go home amongst the sounds if crying children and dress.
what an awesome recipe! must make today! I need to get some supplies though… A friend is flying in from Europe next sunday, so i shall make this for us, if the weather is hot…
I never realized this could be made in 5 minutes this is so refreshingly delicious
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
My grandmother once went out with only one earring on, and she said everyone to the left of her saw a pretty earring and everyone to the right thought she didn’t wear earrings. The trick was to not let anyone face her head on! I love chilled soups
I love learning new style of soup and this is definitely one. It sounds so easy to make but totally new flavor. I don’t have white beans but that’s pretty much one ingredient that’s missing in my kitchen. Sounds refreshing!
Gorgeous soup! I think I have everything on my fridge too. I shall save this for tomorrow as that is when I have a late night.
Ps just the weather for it too.
Great looking soup. I cook up huge batches of various beans and freeze them in ziplock bags, so I always have something available to plump up a meal!
Yes, years ago I rolled up at Airport to pick up teenage son returning from work in America. Waited hours, frantically trying to find info on whether he did make the flight. After much red tape, airline eventually advised me he was arriving the following day. He had forgotten about the huge time difference and given me the wrong date!
Oh no! Sounds like you must have been busy!! Haven’t turned up for anything on the wrong day, but have turned up for an appointment at the wrong hour…even had it in my phone…but was too busy to look at it! That soup sounds rather refreshing and a good summer soup!
What simple elegant soup indeed! I eat a lot of white beans, I love their creaminess when they’re blitzed, so this soup will certainly go on my ‘regular’ list. Thanks!
I have walked out of the house with shirts/dress on backwards or inside out before- very embarrassing indeed
You had me at ’5 minutes’. Love quick in the kitchen
Isn’t Tori a star? Love the way you have presented this soup and that it takes 5 mins.
You know how much I love quick meals. Haha, almost all my recipes are those u can do under 30 mins…
I guess we can use Japanese cucumber for this soup too? Dont think I’ve ever seen Lebanese one here.
HI Baby Sumo! Hehe I love them too!
And yes any sort of cucumber could work-I think Tori used half a telegraph cucumber.
How easy & delicious, I love white beans!
This is what we Indians call ‘raita’. Adore it, and adore the flavors you have brought out.
I once turned up to a flight on the wrong day!
This soup looks divine and so easy too! One of our faves doesn’t take 5 mins but is about 5 mins in the prep, and that’s pea and ham. So quick and easy and always a favourite. We even like it in summer for some strange reason.
That sounds so delicious! I love easy recipes like this!
Oh dear I’ve had days like that. Usually when I have one earring it’s because I put two different ones on to choose from and then forgot to replace the reject! I can whip up a pretty good Puttanesca sauce in 10 minutes.
nah… I can’t do chilled soups. They mess with my head. I feel like I am drinking salad dressing.
I know.
You know me well enough by now to know I am weird.
I’m a little iffy about chilled soup but yours looks pretty tempting… I agree that I’d rather try recipes from blogs nowadays as they tended to be ‘verified’. That’s why people like Ree, and You have inspired me a lot.
Yum, looks really good for summer and it seems so healthy as well!
Oh no – it must be terrible to experience all that. My friend completely forgot about time difference when his mom visited him to US from Malaysia. She waited at the airport for 1 day (no money to make a call and she doesn’t speak English). Anyways, I’ll try this recipe, I’m sure it taste very refreshing.
Wow, all that happened in one day. I am obsessively organized so I have my dates straight all the time. This is an awesome soup, the green olive and pistachio nuts are interesting for sure. I have one of those quick recipe, a secret till I blog it one day
i’m trying to recall a time when i had a chilled bean soup, and nothing comes to mind. this certainly sounds refreshing and delightful!
A divine combo of ingredients here!
A lovely soup! Yum!
5 minutes? Looks a lot more labour intensive but oh so good! My favourite 5 minute meal would have to be laksa (I make lots of paste and keep it on standby for my weekly indulgence).
As for turning up somewhere on the wrong day… I made my step son get dressed for scouts one night because I could swear it was Monday! It seems there was no meeting on Friday that week. Poor guy, he was so excited.
Such beautiful contrasts in colours of your soup. Lovely photography
wow this sounds like my sort of thing. I am cutting back on carbs lately – well as much as I can – but I suspect that if I made this for me then E would be wanting buttered ketchup spaghetti
As for blog recipes – I much prefer these to books because I like to read more notes about making the recipe and books don’t offer that often
I love reading Tori’s blog and this recipes sounds delicious. Your photo is really beautiful, exactly the kind that makes you think “Me wanty!”
I dont want to use canned white beans. I have grown white beans & have them fresh. Can u suggest how do I substitute the canned beans with the fresh off-plant white beans? Hoping for a reply
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