Warming Ginger-Carrot Soup
With the days getting shorter and colder I am craving soups to warm me from the inside. For a soup to fully satisfy my demands,it needs to be warming,spicy,healthy and it needs to have a certain something.
This gorgeous Ginger-Carrot Soup has it all and more. It is this time of year where we are surrounded by people coughing into our face,when heating dries out our nasal and oral mucosa and where we are constantly dressed either too hot or too cold,when cold and flu viruses have an easy game to defeat our weakened natural defences.
Vitamin A stemming from the carrots and orange juice rich in Vitamine C are perfect for boosting our immune system together with ginger,which is used in traditional medicine particularly in Asian countries and is thought to have anti-inflammatory properties. Consequently,this soup is a perfect cocktail to possibly decrease our chances of being knocked out by microbes and at the same time it is truly excellent. What more do you want really?
Here we go:
WARMING GINGER-CARROT SOUP
Amount: 3-4 people
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- 600 g carrots
- 1 medium to large onion
- 50 g fresh ginger
- 800 ml of vegetable or chicken bouillon
- 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice
- 100 ml of good quality orange juice (e.g. Tropicana)
- some butter
- some olive oil
- fresh coriander
- low fat creme fraiche
- dried chilli to taste
- salt,pepper
1. Peel Carrots and cut into slices. Peel and chop onions. Peel ginger and chop or ground finely.
2. Melt some butter/olive oil mixture in a medium sized pot and cook for 3-4 minutes until soft. Then add ginger and carrots and stew for a couple of minutes. Fill up with bouillon and add lemon and orange juice and bring to boil. Simmer until carrots are tender.
3. Whiz in blender or hand blender until soup is smooth. Season with salt,pepper and chilli to taste and if too thick dilute with some water or bouillon.
4. Serve hot with a dollop of creme fraiche,garnished with chopped coriander.
Even though it’s not winter here in NZ,this is still exactly what I need to counteract the season’s excesses (and there really has been a lot of excess this year!)
@HungryandFrozen –I can see this soup working very well as an antidote to too much celebrations…I need it too!