Can I make Carrot Soup with these things?

gingerandrubarb

Totally, you can make most soups with little veggies and you can mix stocks, (obv not if your vegetarian) I simply
chop them to the same size,
boil them in a pan,
once they soften i drain them,
add half back into the pan with the stock,
bring to the boil,
season
handblend them from the pan,
once thats to the right consistency add the half that you left out (unless you like a fully smooth soup, i like some chunk in mine) voila.. chop your herbs and sprinkle in, (no onion or leek needed)
I find if you add lentils,or dried peas etc, onions or leek it goes off the next day, very badly, If you have a rubbish digestive system like me, it basically goes off in your tum lol.. x

Little_Vics

Silly tesco sent me a lot of carrots that are going manky. I've got an onion and some hm chicken stock - can I make soup, if yes what can I put in it to make it taste good, and can I freeze it?

angeltreats

Do you have any other veggies? Leeks, celery, turnip - any of those? Any lentils and/or pearl barley?

Penelope_Penguin

Little_Vics wrote: »

Silly tesco sent me a lot of carrots that are going manky. I've got an onion and some hm chicken stock - can I make soup, if yes what can I put in it to make it taste good, and can I freeze it?

Chop the onion, sweat in some fat. Add thinly sliced carrots and sweat until soft. Add the stock and simmer for 30 mins. Season, blend and add chopped corianer before serving.

There are more carrot soup recipes here; I'll merge this later to keep recipes together.

jinky67

Lentils?

make a huge pot of lentil soup

Grimbal

curried carrot is very nice. Sweat an onion off, fry some curry paste/powder. Add in chopped carrots & stock (veg stock cube is fine). Simmer until carrots very soft & then liquidise. Lovely on a cold day !

Little_Vics

yum! Guess I can freeze it??

Grimbal

yup, freezes very well. As the carrots are pureed, the freezing won't affect them

Pink.

Hi Little Vics,

I hope the replies you got were helpful to you. As your questions have been answered and your thread has dropped down the board I've added your thread to another very similar thread to keep the suggestions together.

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emiff6

SailorSam wrote: »

Why are you peeling the carrots ?
You eat the skin when you have a baked potatoe, carrots are no different.
Just wash them and cut off the top.

Fine if the carrots are organic or home-grown. If not, I always peel. Chemical residues from crop spraying with pesticides and herbicides tend to concentrate in the skin of carrots (and potatoes).