Curried Carrot Bisque Food

CURRIED COCONUT-CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place carrots and onion in an ungreased shallow baking pan; roast 30 to 35 minutes or until tender.
• Transfer to Oster® Versa® Performance Blender; add cashews, coconut milk and seasonings. PULSE on HIGH 2 to 3 times.
• Blend on HIGH for 1 to 2 minutes or until creamy.
• Remove to a medium saucepan; stir in stock.
• Cook over medium heat until heated through, about 5 minutes.

CURRIED CARROT AND COCONUT SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the butter until the foam subsides. Add the diced chopped onions, sprinkle with salt, stir to coat with butter. Add the chopped carrots along with the spices. Stir and cook until softened, about 10 minutes.
• Add the stock; there should be enough to cover the vegetables. Bring the pot to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and continue cooking until the carrots are cooked through, about 10 to 15 minutes.
• If you have an immersion blender, purée the soup in the pot. If not, wait until the soup cools slightly, and purée in a food processor. Add enough coconut milk (and a little more stock or water if necessary) to bring the soup to the consistency you want. Adjust the seasoning (depending on the stock you use, you may need more or less salt), and lime juice to taste. Garnish and serve.

CURRIED CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat medium pot over medium high heat. Add olive oil, butter, onions and carrots and saute 5 minutes. Add 4 cups chicken stock, curry and cayenne, and about 1 teaspoon salt to the pot. Bring to a boil, cover and cook until carrots are very tender, about 15 minutes. Place pot on a trivet next to food processor. Process soup in 2 or 3 small batches until soup is smooth and carrots are fully pureed. Transfer processed soup into a large bowl as you work to make room for more soup in the food processor. Return completed soup to the soup pot and place back over low heat. If the soup is too thick, add remaining stock, up to 2 cups, to achieve desired consistency. Adjust seasonings. Place sour cream in a plastic condiment squeeze bottle or into a medium food storage bag. Cut a very small hole in the corner of the bag with scissors. Ladle soup into bowls and squirt a swirl of sour cream around the bowl from the center out to the rim. Drag a toothpick from the center of the bowls out to the edges, forming a spider web design on soup. Pile a few pieces of cut chives at the center of each bowl to resemble green spiders in their webs! Cool!

CREAMY CURRIED CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute onion in oil. Stir in the broth, carrots, curry, thyme and bay leaf. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes or until carrots are tender. , Discard bay leaf. Cool slightly. Transfer half of the soup to a blender; add half of the cream cheese. , Cover and process until smooth; repeat with remaining soup and cream cheese. Return all to the pan. Heat through. Stir in the parsley, salt and cayenne if desired.

VEGAN CURRIED CARROT GINGER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a Dutch oven or large pot over medium-high heat. Add carrots, onion, and celery. Season with salt and pepper, and sauté stirring occasionally until vegetables soften, about 10 minutes.
• Add garlic and curry powder; cook 1 minute more, stirring frequently.
• Add the rice milk, coconut milk, and carrot juice. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes, or until carrots are tender. Remove from heat.
• Blend with an immersion blender or work in batches to puree the vegetables in a high-speed blender. Do not fill the blender more than halfway, and partially cover the hole in the lid with a dishtowel to allow steam to escape.
• Pour each batch of pureed soup in another pot and keep warm on medium-low heat.
• Once all the vegetables are pureed stir in the syrup and ginger. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Can be made 3 days ahead. Let cool, cover, and refrigerate. Rewarm over medium heat when ready to serve along with suggested toppings.

CARROT BISQUE

Steps:

• In a stockpot over low-med heat, cook the carrots and the onions in the peanut oil for 7 to 10 min.; cover and stir occasionally. You want the onions to brown but not burn, although if the burn a little bit it's not the end of the world. Add the garlic, curry, salt, and pepper; saute for 1 more minute Add the 3 cups broth, cover, and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 10 to 12 min., or until the carrots are tender.
• Add the coconut milk and bring to a low boil. Turn the heat off. Use a handheld blender to puree half of the soup; if you don't have one, then puree half the soup in a blender and add it back to the soup pot. Add the maple syrup and stir. Serve hot.

CARROT BISQUE

Steps:

• In a large stock pot, heat 1 cup of brandy on high heat until the liquid is almost entirely reduced (~3-5 minutes).
• Reduce heat to medium and add the stick of butter.
• Dice the onion and mince the garlic. Add to the pot when the butter is melted.
• Cook until onions are soft, stirring occasionally.
• While the onions cook, wash, but don't peel, the carrots. Cut them into 1" to 1.5" pieces, then slice in half the long way (resulting in 1"-1.5" long half-moon shaped pieces). Set aside.
• Once the onions are soft, add half of the chicken broth and whisk in the flour (it will probably remain a bit lumpy).
• Add the remaining chicken broth and the remaining cup of brandy. Whisk again and add the carrots.
• Let the mixture boil on medium for ~45 minutes or until carrots are soft. Stir every few minutes to avoid burning the flour to the bottom of the pot.
• Puree the entire mixture in a food processor. (It takes me three rounds to puree it all). Mix for ~10 seconds, scrape the sides, and then mix for another 10-15 seconds. If doing it in batches, grab a large mixing bowl to pour your pureed product into.
• Clean out your stock pot (be sure to get all the flour out). Pour the pureed mixture back into the stock pot and heat to medium. Be sure to keep stirring, or the thick mixture will pop and splatter at you. Not fun.
• Add your spices to taste and simmer for about 5 minutes. (If using crab, add it with the spices.).
• Add the cream and stir until completely mixed.
• If adding scallops, cook them however you like, (I melt some butter in a pan and fry them on medium for 60 seconds, flip them over and heat another 60 seconds) then shred them up and add them to the bisque last thing.
• For added flair: After you have ladled the bisque into bowls, you can swirl a drizzle of extra cream onto the top in a fun pattern.

CURRIED CARROT BISQUE

Steps:

• Heat butter over medium heat in pot. Stir in carrots, leeks, ginger, garlic
• and curry powder.
• Saute for about 5 minutes or until leeks soften slightly.
• Pour in chicken stock, bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer, covered, 20 ~ 25 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
• Puree in a blender or food processor.
• Return to heat, add whipping cream, salt and pepper and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Garnish with grated carrot. Serves 4 to 6.
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CURRIED PUMPKIN BISQUE

Steps:

• Slowly saute onion and garlic in oil until transparent, about 5 minutes.
• Add pumpkin puree and chicken stock, bay leaf, sugar, curry, nutmeg and mix well.
• Bring to boil, and then lower heat to simmer.
• Cook 20 to 30 minutes.
• Taste for seasoning.
• Add half-and-half and simmer another 10 minutes.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Blend in batches in blender.
• Strain through a fine strainer.
• Reheat gently, and serve with toasted coconut.

CURRIED CARROT BISQUE

Steps:

• Add onion and carrots and olive oil in a medium saucepan and saute until soft, aproximately 10 - 15 minutes.
• Next, add the remaining ingredients, bring to a boil, and simmer for 30 - 40 minutes.
• Remove parsley and bay leaves.
• Use immersion blender and puree until smooth. (You can also use a blender if you don't have an immersion blender.).
• Additionally, you can run it thorough a strainer to make it more smooth.