Carrot and ginger soup
A simple but tasty soup, with few and cheap ingredients. Serves four as a starter or two as mains.
Equipment
- 1 Saucepan
- 1 Stick mixer or blender
Ingredients
- 8 medium sized carrots
- 2 shallots
- 1 thumb sized piece of ginger
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 700 ml vegetable stock
- 100 ml cream
- Salt
- White pepper
Instructions
- Peel the carrots and ginger.
- Cut the carrots into 3 cm pieces and grate the ginger.
- Peel and cut the shallots, no need to finely chop them.
- Sauté the shallots in the butter until translucent.
- Add the vegetable stock, carrots, ginger and lemon juice and bring to the boil.
- Let simmer until the carrots are soft.
- Mix the soup until smooth.
- Season with salt and pepper.