Carrot & Coriander Soup

wendym

This is one of my '2 stage' soups.

I boil chopped carrots, sometimes a potato, and red lentils in one pan. In another I cook chopped onions and garlic in a little oil, adding ground cumin, coriander, and cardamom.

I then blend the carrot and lentil mixture, adding milk until the texture feels right, and add that to the spiced onions, so the soup has a little texture. If I have any coriander leaf I add that at this stage, or sprinkling some chopped over the soup when you serve is even better.

Headintheclouds_3

Include some freshly squeezed orange juice (from the fruit, not a carton :eek: ...good way of using up sad fruitbowl oranges) and a squeeze of lemon/lime to add a bit of zestiness

fudgem

there's a nice recipe on here

http://www.eighth-day.co.uk/recipes/scarcori.htm

Squidgy

carrot & ginger:
1tbsp oil
12oz carrots
1 onion, roughly chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1in piece of ginger, peeled & roughly chopped
11/2pt chicken /veg stock
2tbsp lemon juice

Sweat off onion, garlic & ginger in the oil. Add carrots & stock. Bring to boil & simmer for 15/20 mins until carrots are tender. Season and add the juice. Blend and sieve. Serves 4. Freezes well.

Carrot & Coriander:
1 tbsp oil
2 bay leaves
1 onion, roughly chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
625g carrots
small bunch coriander, leaves seperated from stems
2pts veg stock
half tsp garam masala

Heat oil, add bay leaves, onion & garlic &fry for 2 mins. Add carrots, coriander stems & stock. Bring to boil & simmer until carrots are cooked. Remove bay leaves & puree the soup. Sieve. Season & add the garam masala. Finely chop half the coriander leaves & stir them into the soup. Use the remaining leaves as a garnish. Serves 4. Freezes well.

I didn't bother with bay leaves and I used dried coriander. It was very nice.

Squidge x

Pink.

Hello learningtosave,

We have an older thread with some recipes that might help, so I'll merge your thread with it as it helps to keep all the suggestions together. Posts are listed in date order, so you'll need to read from the beginning to see all the replies.

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wendym

Isn't this just a great site?

[Deleted User]

Hi folks I seem to have a glut of carrots left over and rather than freeze them I thought I would like to make some soup in my slow cooker .Has anyone made the above soup in a SC.I can only use one hand at the moment so I thought doing it in the SC would be safer that wobbling around with a big saucepan in my hand .Any one got a recipe for it ?

larmy16

JackieO wrote: »

Hi folks I seem to have a glut of carrots left over and rather than freeze them I thought I would like to make some soup in my slow cooker .Has anyone made the above soup in a SC.I can only use one hand at the moment so I thought doing it in the SC would be safer that wobbling around with a big saucepan in my hand .Any one got a recipe for it ?

If you google it you will get loads of recipes off the net.

vixtress

i have just made a big pan of soup and was wondering how long it would keep in the fridge (am trying to mealplan for the week)

i really have no idea as i havent made it before (im usually a stew and dumplings kinda girl )

thanks, vix

dannahaz

Soup freezes really well,so if you aren't going to eat it in the next couple of days, portion if up and freeze it.