So I discovered carrots and ginger combination while working on last week recipe. And I decided to take it one step further: today with carrots and ginger soup-puree.
It is spicy, unusual and absolutely delicious. To my surprise even my better half liked it (and he is not too thrilled with either carrots or ginger).
You can use cup blender instead of hand one, if blender cup isn’t big enough to hold whole pot, just work in batches. But I must say hand blender is much easier to use here.
Ingredients:
1lb-1.5lb of carrots
3 inches of fresh ginger root (or less if you like it less spicy)
1 onion
4 garlic cloves
Chicken broth to taste
About 1 cup of heavy cream
1.5 tablespoon of butter
1.5 tablespoon of olive oil
Ground black pepper to taste
Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
Prepare ingredients: peel and chop garlic, ginger, and onions (keep them separate however); peel carrots and slice them in circles:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 1
Warm up a cooking pot over moderate-low heat, melt butter in:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 2
Pour olive oil in:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 3
Add chopped garlic, and cook them until fragrant (a minute or two), stir from time to time:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 4
Then add chopped onions:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 5
Fry onions and garlic together until onions are transparent, stir from time to time:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 6
Add carrot slices, mix everything together and continue cooking for about 5 mins, continue to stir also:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 7
Add chopped ginger, mix and cook for a minute or two:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 8
Pour broth, just enough to cover vegetables in the pot; season with salt and ground black pepper to taste; then bring pot content to light simmer and continue cooking until carrots become soft (15-20-25mins):
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 9
As soon as carrots are soft enough, using hand blender start pureeing pot content:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 10a
Until you get more or less homogeneous:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe: Step 10b
Pour cream and continue blending until you get smooth puree consistency, if you wish to get soup more liquid – add a but more broth:
Add creamContinue pureeingUntil all smooth
Bring soup to simmer, then pour into a soup bowl and serve hot:
Carrots and Ginger Soup-Puree Recipe
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love this recipes thanks alot
it is so lovely, can you tell me I can make this soup without cream? because I don't wont to much fat, I don't like cream so much.
You can probably skip cream and add a bit more broth to get soup consistency you like.