#52-FAVORITE SOUPS

FAVORITE SOUPS

Hey everyone!

I love autumn and the opportunity is too good to share my favorite soup recipes with you.

No great preparations. It's simple, delicious and comforting at the same time. And it's a way to eat more vegetables.

I do it for several days and I warm a bowl every night.

For recipes 2, 3 and 4, I use a robot cooker and blender (Moulinex Soup & Co which I already talked about in a previous blogpost on the 5 utensils that make my life easier since I am sick) because it’s very easy and it saves my energy. But you can also cook the soup in a large pot and mix at the end of cooking.

For recipes 3 and 4, I offer a version with and without lactose.

1/ CORAL LENSES AND CELERY SOUP

Ingredients:

Olive oil

1 chopped onion

175 gr (1 cup) of coral lenses

3 branches of chopped celery

1 liter of water (or broth)

Thyme

3 chopped garlic cloves

Heat the oil in a large pot and brown the onion.

Add the coral lenses and mix. Add celery, water (or broth), thyme, garlic and seasoning.

Cover, bring to a boil, and simmer for 35 minutes by turning from time to time. It's ready!

You can add sausages to make a meal soup.

This recipe is also delicious with the addition of curry and served over rice (like a sauce instead of a soup).

Quick tip:

I buy a celery in branches. I take 3 branches for the recipe, and I clean, cut and freeze the rest for the next time. The next time, it’s even faster to prepare the recipe because I pour the celery already cut and still frozen directly into the water.

2/ CARROT SOUP WITH COCONUT MILK

Ingredients:

1 onion

6 carrots

1 liter of water (or broth)

1 tsp. curry

Coconut milk

Place all the ingredients in Soup & Co, except for coconut milk.

Cook for 30 minutes. The program automatically mixes the ingredients at the end of cooking.

When the program is finished and the soup is mixed, add the coconut milk (according to your taste) and mix for a few seconds.

Quick tip:

I add the coconut milk by the small porthole planned to add ingredients during cooking.

3/ BROCCOLI SOUP

Ingredients:

1 broccoli

1/3 bag of pre-cut vegetables for soup (carrots, celery, leeks)

1 liter of water (or broth)

Garlic and fine herbs cheese (or vegetable cheese)

Cut and clean the broccoli. I keep the central part of the foot (so, I remove the outside of the foot which is too hard).

Place all the ingredients in Soup & Co, except for garlic and fine herbs cheese.

Cook for 30 minutes. The program automatically mixes the ingredients at the end of cooking.

When the program is finished and the soup is mixed, add the garlic and fine herbal cheese (according to your taste) and mix for a few seconds to mix. Delicious!

Quick tip:

I buy a bag of pre-cut vegetables for the soup (carrots, celery, leeks), either in the fresh department, or frozen, and I use it as a base for the soup by pouring 1/3 or 1/4 of the bag.

In the frozen, there are sometimes peas and/or green beans in these mixtures of vegetables. In this case, watch out for the lectins they contain, because they are pro-inflammatory. I personally have very strong reaction with peas and green beans, and I avoid eating them.

4/ CHERVIL SOUP

Ingredients:

1 fresh chervil tray

1/3 bag of pre-cut vegetables for soup (carrots, celery, leeks)

1 liter of water (or broth)

Sour cream (or vegetable culinary cream)

Place all the ingredients in Soup & Co, except for chervil and sour cream.

The program will cook the ingredients for 30 minutes and mix automatically at the end of cooking.

5 minutes before the end of cooking, I add the chervil by the small porthole planned to add ingredients during cooking. Indeed, the chervil is so fine that it should only be cooked 5 minutes before mixing everything.

Add the sour cream directly when serving.

Quick tip:

The sour cream does not keep well once added to the soup. So, I prefer to keep the soup cool without cream, and add the cream for each portion, just before serving.

I hope these little recipes will give you inspiration to warm you up with a good bowl of soup during the long months of fall and winter.

Bon appétit! Enjoy!

EVERY DAY MAY NOT BE GOOD, BUT THERE IS GOOD IN EVERY DAY.

Pericordially yours,

Vali