Velbekomme » soup http://www.velbekomme.com Food porn and recipes for everyone with a mouth and a tummy. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:09:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Recipe Tryout: Vichyssoise Soup from BBC Food http://www.velbekomme.com/recipe-try-out-vichyssoise-soup/ http://www.velbekomme.com/recipe-try-out-vichyssoise-soup/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:54:46 +0000 Heidi http://www.velbekomme.com/?p=1181

Hello everybody, this is Silas Bo talking. I’ve been invited to do a post on whatever came to mind as long as it was food-related. Well, first thing that came a-knocking was soup. Since poor Heidi has been under the mutilating care of a dentist everything is now liquified in one way or another. And where should one go from there but into the wonderful world of soups? (mind your footwear, mmmkay?). One favourite is the French Vichyssoise, which is fancy talk for leak and potato soup. But be aware of the recipe you have to stick pretty darn close to the numbers or you won’t get that almost cheese-like flavour that comes from the leaks and the rather large amount of butter. We tried this soup in the delightful surroundings of Krapperup Slot in the southern part of Sweden and need we say that it has been on the repertoire ever since. The recipe is from the bottomless archives of BBC-food. Get it right here.

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Ahh, the splendour of a sunny day in autumn, where everyone is just sucking in those last rays of light before the bleak winter sets in! What better way to end such a day, than by enjoying a heartwarming soup? Yes, I’m in a soupy state of mind today and I want to share this delicious beetroot soup with you.
As I understand, it’s not quite a borscht as they make ‘em in Russia, but a soup as the Danish film producer at Zentropa, Peter Aalbæk whips it up. So once again, I’m passing on a recipe with my own touches. I love the thought of someone else doing their thing with my recipe too, so feel free to inform me of your own improvements:-)


(Serves two people):
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2 large beetroots in small chunks
2 carrots (optional, and treated the same as above)
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
Small 1/2 teaspoon caraway seeds – best buddies with beetroots!
1/2 litre meat stock (I use veal stock)
Chop up the onions and garlic and fry them in some olive oil in a large saucepan with the caraway seeds. Then add the beetroots & carrots and leave for five mins. Now you want some juice to enter the game, so add the stock and maybe a splash of water. Leave to boil for 20-30 mins. and check if the veggies have turned soft. If so, pour the whole lot into your blender and give it a good spin. When it’s nice and creamy, return it to the saucepan and leave it on medium heat, while you prepare the trimmings: Almond pesto and goat cheese nibbles:
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PESTO: Turn on the oven at 220 degrees. Blend up 1 decilitre of peeled and roasted almonds with 1 clove of garlic, a big handful of parsley, lemon juice & rind, grated parmesan cheese, olive oil and salt. You might need to add a little extra of this or that to suit your own taste. I like it a bit corse and dryish, not soaked in oil as many do.
GOAT CHEESE NIBBLES: Slice up some stale bread thinly, or as I do, stale rolls. Add a slice of goat cheese from a roll on each slice and give each “nibble” a bit of fresh rosemary, salt and olive oil. Crisp them up in the oven, take them out and sprinkle with runny honey.
Now you’re ready to serve the sweet and caraway-spiced soup with your trimmings and a blob or two of ricotta cheese.
If that doesn’t do it for you, I’m afraid nothing else will.

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