Showing posts with label carrot soup ginger sour cream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carrot soup ginger sour cream. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Carrot Ginger Soup

I still don't have my camera working, so for now I only have the final image. I know, I know...I'm working on it. Here is a recipe I made today for carrot soup...it is DELISH. Once again, soups prevail!

1 medium onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1/3 cup fresh ginger, grated
good virgin olive oil
2 lbs of carrots, peeled and cut into 1 inch chunks
6 cups of vegetable stock or chicken stock
juice of 1/2 lemon
salt and pepper to taste
pinch of red pepper flakes

(top with a dollop of sour cream, a drizzle of olive oil, and some fresh ground pepper)

In a saucepan heat up a drizzle of olive oil, add the onions and cook until translucent--about ten minutes. Add in the minced garlic and ginger and cook an additional 5 minutes. Add in the stock and chopped carrots and the red pepper flakes. Cook, uncovered for about 30 minutes until carrots are just cooked through. Remove pot from heat and use a hand blender to puree the soup, if you don't have a hand blender you can make batches in a food processor. add the juice of the 1/2 lemon and taste, add salt as needed and it's ready to serve.
I add a dollop of the sour cream, a drizzle of the olive oil and some fresh pepper for a little additional flavor. YUM!