Curry Carrot Leek Soup Food

CURRIED LEEK SOUP

Steps:

• In a 3-qt. saucepan, saute leeks in butter over medium heat until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the broth, water, carrots, celery, bouillon, curry powder and pepper. Bring to a boil. , Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Cool slightly. , Place 1 cup soup in a blender; cover and process until smooth. Return to pan. Add milk; heat through (do not boil).

LEEK AND CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• Bring your stock to the boil, add the leeks, carrots and bay leaf.
• Bring back to the boil, then simmer for 20 to 30 minutes until the vegetables are tender.
• Let cool slightly, remove the bay leaf, puree the soup in a food processor or with a hand blender to your own liking.
• Add the milk, if you find the soup is too thick add some more milk or water, adjust the seasoning and serve, with or without the cream.

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!

CURRIED CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Saute onion until tender and translucent. Stir in the curry powder. Add the chopped carrots, and stir until the carrots are coated. Pour in the vegetable broth, and simmer until the carrots are soft, about 20 minutes.
• Transfer the carrots and broth to a blender, and puree until smooth. Pour back into the pot, and thin with water to your preferred consistency.

CURRIED COCONUT-LEEK SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a stockpot over medium heat. Cook and stir leeks and garlic in melted butter until tender, about 5 minutes.
• Stir chicken stock, carrots, celery, curry powder, turmeric, ginger, black pepper, and red pepper flakes with the leeks and garlic; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover the pot, and simmer the mixture until vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes.
• Pour coconut milk into the soup and stir; cook just until hot, 1 to 2 minutes.

THAI-INSPIRED CURRY CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add carrots (and/or sweet potatoes or squash), onions (and/or shallots or leeks) and celery. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 20 to 25 minutes. Add garlic and curry paste; cook, stirring often, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add coconut milk and water (or broth); bring to a simmer over high heat. Adjust heat to maintain a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are very soft, 30 to 40 minutes.
• Puree the mixture with an immersion blender or in batches in a regular blender until smooth (use caution when blending hot liquids). Return to the pot, if necessary, and add lime juice and fish sauce. Serve hot or let cool completely before refrigerating for up to 4 days or freezing for up to 4 months.

CURRIED CARROT & LENTIL SOUP

Steps:

• Tip the spices into the pan and briefly heat to toast them. Pour in 800ml water and pile in the carrots, leek and garlic. Crumble in the stock cube, then cover and cook over a high heat for 10 mins.
• Tip in the lentils with their liquid and most of the chopped coriander, then cover and cook for 5 mins more. Blitz the soup with a hand blender to part-purée it. Serve topped with the remaining coriander and the yogurt, if you like. Will keep in the fridge for 3 days.

CURRY CARROT-LEEK SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute leeks and carrots in butter until leeks are tender. Add potato and curry powder; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Add broth, salt and pepper; bring to a boil., Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until the vegetables are very tender. Cool slightly. , Process in batches in a food processor or blender until pureed. Return to the pan; heat through.

LEEK, POTATO AND CARROT SOUP.

Steps:

• Peel your potatoes and cut them into small chunks. Put them in a big pan. Cut the dark green off the leek as well as a slice of the bottom. Wash thoroughly to get all the dirt off. Cut them into thin slices.
• Peel the carrots and thinly cube them. Add all vegetables to the pan along with the butter and oil. Turn the heat to medium then when the butter has melted turn to low.
• Leave the vegetables to cook for ten 10 minutes. Boil the water and add the stock cube stir until dissolved. Add to pan. Along with the salt and pepper. Leave for 2 minutes then add the milk.
• Bring the heat to medium and let it boil. Turn heat down and let it cook for another 15 minutes.
• From here you can either leave it chunky or you could blend it with a hand held blender till smooth.