Curry Soup

Description
Vietnamese curry soup has curry powder as a main ingredient or Madras curry powder. It can be served with rice.

Ingredients

 * 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
 * 1 onion, coarsely chopped
 * 2 shallots, thinly sliced
 * 2 cloves garlic, chopped
 * 2 inch piece fresh ginger root, thinly sliced
 * 1 stalk lemon grass, cut into 2 inch pieces
 * 4 tablespoons curry powder
 * 1 green bell pepper, coarsely chopped
 * 2 carrots, peeled and diagonally sliced
 * 8 mushrooms, sliced
 * 1 pound fried tofu, cut into bite-size pieces
 * 4 cups vegetable broth
 * 4 cups water
 * 2 tablespoons vegetarian fish sauce (optional)
 * 2 teaspoons red pepper flakes
 * 1 bay leaf
 * 2 kaffir lime leaves
 * 8 small potatoes, quartered
 * 1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk

Directions
Prepare the onion and shallots, heat the oil, prepare garlic, ginger, lemon grass and curry powder adn cook them for 5 minutes. Use green pepper, carrots, mushrooms and tofu. Boil them and add potatoes.