Ginger Orange Roasted Carrot Soup With Spicy Shrimp Food

CARROT GINGER SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven or stockpot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender, 4-5 minutes. Add garlic and ginger; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in carrots, broth, zest, salt and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, until carrots are tender, 10-12 minutes. Pulse mixture in a blender or with an immersion blender to desired consistency; stir in lemon juice. If desired, garnish with additional lemon zest. , Freeze option: Cool soup; freeze in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a large saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally; add broth or water if necessary.

ORANGE-GINGER CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and thinly slice the carrots. Finely chop the onion. Peel and chop the garlic cloves. In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add carrots, onion, garlic, and ginger and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is golden, 6 to 8 minutes. Meanwhile grate the orange to yield 2 teaspoon grated zest. Juice orange to yield 1/2 cup orange juice.
• Add chicken stock, orange zest, and bay leaf to cooking vegetables. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until carrots are tender about 20 minutes.
• In a food processor or blender, puree soup in batches until smooth; return to saucepan. Stir in orange juice and season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes. Mince cilantro or parsley to yield 2 tablespoons. Garnish each soup bowl with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt and sprinkling of cilantro 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!

CARROT AND GINGER SOUP

Steps:

• In 4-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.
• Add onions and sauté until translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Add gingerroot and cook 2 minutes longer.
• Add carrots and stock to onions; heat to boiling over high heat.
• Reduce heat to low, cover and cook carrots until tender, 15 to 20 minutes.
• (Alternately, you can cook the carrots first, then add to stock- no need to thinly slice) Use hand blender to blend carrot mixture, in batches, until smooth.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Heat soup over low heat until hot.
• Ladle into bowls and serve.
• Use the vegetable stock for vegetarians.

SHRIMP WITH ORANGE AND GINGER

Steps:

• Peel the ginger and grate it in a bowl.
• Finely chop the garlic and add it to the ginger with the crushed chillies, salt and pepper and sesame oil.
• Add the shrimp cover and marinate at room temperature for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile thinly slice the red pepper.
• Slice the scallions on the diagonal keeping the white and green separate.
• Peel and segment the oranges, catching the juice in a bowl.
• There should be 3 or 4 tbsp of juice.
• Heat a wok or skillet over moderately high heat unil hot.
• Add the shrimp and stir fry for a few minutes until pink all over.
• Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
• Heat the sunflower in the pan, then add the red pepper and white parts of the scallions and stir fry until soft.
• Mix in the orange segments and juice, then return the shrimp and any juices to the pan and stir until mixed and heated through.
• Serve with the green parts of the scallions over rice.
• 5 minutes prep time, 10 to 15 marinating and 8 minutes cooking time.

ROASTED CARROT GINGER SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine carrots, parsnips, onion & ginger in a shallow roasting pan to fit. Dot with the butter and sprinkle with the brown sugar.
• Pour 2 cups of chicken broth into the pan, cover well & bake until vegetables are very tender (approx. 2 hours).
• Transfer the vegetables and broth to a large pot.
• Add the remaining 6 cups of chicken broth, the salt & cayenne pepper.
• Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer, partially covered, for 10 minutes.
• Puree the soup in batches in a blender or food processor, adding more broth if necessary. Return the soup to the pot.
• Adjust the seasonings and heat through.
• Serve each portion dolloped with a teaspoon of creme fraiche and/or chopped chives (OPTIONAL).

GINGER CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• In a large soup pan, over medium heat, saute the garlic and onions in the olive oil until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the carrots, potatoes, ginger, cumin and broth, cover and simmer for 20 minutes, or until the carrots are tender but not mushy.
• Remove the pot from the heat. Puree half this mixture in a food processor or blender. Combine the pureed and unpureed parts of the soup together to create one nicely textured whole. Add more broth if necessary to achieve the desired consistency. Taste and adjust seasoning. Serve hot, garnished with a dollop of yogurt.