Good evening!
I like experimenting with new soups when the cooler weather arrives here in England.
This time I'd like to share a soup that I found really tasty - although I reckon that when it comes to personal preferences, everyone is different - and to make sure I won't forget how I made it, I will pen the ingredients before they leave my busy mind for good!
I will add a photograph as soon as I can - so far I only managed to get really ugly ones!
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Hearty vegetable soup with cauliflower and kale
Ingredients
1/ cauliflower, cut in small bits
2 large kale leaves, cut in bits, stalks not included
1 large onion, shredded
3 or more gloves of garlic
salt to taste
1 spoon of medium Curry powder
1 medium potato, sliced and diced
olive oil
optional: a few tomato crisps * and some fresh parsley to add to each plate
Preparation
Stir fry all the ingredients, then add water (about 1 litre), and simmer for 25-30 minutes.
Taste occasionally to adjust saltiness, general taste (or lack thereof, etc.)
When it's ready, there are two options:
1) Serve as it is, sprinkling some cut parsley on each plate.
2) Put it in a food blender and mix until it reaches a velvety consistency.
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Please note that if you put the soup in a food blender when boiling hot, it may crack the container (if it's a weak plastic). My Vitamix doesn't suffer from heat but I guess that eventually even a Vitamix jug will lose a bit of shine.
Second point: the taste becomes much more intense when you turn your soup into a smoothie. I prefer it like that. Some people rather eat a soup that tastes a bit different at every spoonful, and where the texture changes.
Third thing: during summer I had far too many tomatoes on my vine and to avoid throwing them away I dehydrated 80% of them, then I made tomato leathers with my Excalibur dehydrator. I used only tomatoes - nothing else.
The taste is supreme and the crisps are so thin and crunchy, it's unbelievable.
I picked quite a few and put them in my soup to add a lovely taste. You don't need to have them - but if you'd like to try the tomato taste you could venture with some tomato paste. Not quite the same, I know…but still a substitute.
This soup is so tasty that I might prepare a denser version to make my very first 'vegetable spread' to use on bread slices. A healthy sandwich!
Enjoy your meal!
Franz
I like experimenting with new soups when the cooler weather arrives here in England.
This time I'd like to share a soup that I found really tasty - although I reckon that when it comes to personal preferences, everyone is different - and to make sure I won't forget how I made it, I will pen the ingredients before they leave my busy mind for good!
I will add a photograph as soon as I can - so far I only managed to get really ugly ones!
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Hearty vegetable soup with cauliflower and kale
Ingredients
1/ cauliflower, cut in small bits
2 large kale leaves, cut in bits, stalks not included
1 large onion, shredded
3 or more gloves of garlic
salt to taste
1 spoon of medium Curry powder
1 medium potato, sliced and diced
olive oil
optional: a few tomato crisps * and some fresh parsley to add to each plate
Preparation
Stir fry all the ingredients, then add water (about 1 litre), and simmer for 25-30 minutes.
Taste occasionally to adjust saltiness, general taste (or lack thereof, etc.)
When it's ready, there are two options:
1) Serve as it is, sprinkling some cut parsley on each plate.
2) Put it in a food blender and mix until it reaches a velvety consistency.
************************************************************************
Please note that if you put the soup in a food blender when boiling hot, it may crack the container (if it's a weak plastic). My Vitamix doesn't suffer from heat but I guess that eventually even a Vitamix jug will lose a bit of shine.
Second point: the taste becomes much more intense when you turn your soup into a smoothie. I prefer it like that. Some people rather eat a soup that tastes a bit different at every spoonful, and where the texture changes.
Third thing: during summer I had far too many tomatoes on my vine and to avoid throwing them away I dehydrated 80% of them, then I made tomato leathers with my Excalibur dehydrator. I used only tomatoes - nothing else.
The taste is supreme and the crisps are so thin and crunchy, it's unbelievable.
I picked quite a few and put them in my soup to add a lovely taste. You don't need to have them - but if you'd like to try the tomato taste you could venture with some tomato paste. Not quite the same, I know…but still a substitute.
This soup is so tasty that I might prepare a denser version to make my very first 'vegetable spread' to use on bread slices. A healthy sandwich!
Enjoy your meal!
Franz
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