Nutty Carrot Cumin Soup Recipes

Steps:

• In a saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat.
• Saute onions until tender.
• Add carrots, cumin, and salt; cook, stirring 1 minute.
• Add vegetable broth and bring to a boil.
• Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 25 minutes or until carrots are tender.
• Spread out pecans on a baking sheet.
• Toast in oven at 350°F for 8 minutes or until 1 shade darker.
• Toss pecans with 1 teaspoon butter and add salt to taste; set aside.
• Pour soup into a blender container (may have to do in 2 batches).
• Puree until smooth.
• Pour soup into bowls and sprinkle with pecans on top.

Steps:

• Heat butter in a large, heavy-based saucepan until foaming.
• Add carrots, orange peel, cumin and remaining vegetables.
• Stir-fry for 2-5 minutes, then cover and cook very gently over low heat until all the vegetables are soft; 15-30 minutes, depending on size of chunks.
• Stir with a wooden spoon from time to time.
• Season with a little salt, pepper and nutmeg.
• Sprinkle with cornflour and stir thoroughly.
• Gradually add first the chicken stock and then the milk, stirring constantly.
• Continue cooking, stirring, until the soup comes to the boil.
• Remove the saucepan from the stove, transfer the soup to a food processor or blender and puree until smooth.
• Return it to the saucepan and heat through.
• Stir in the cream and serve in heated soup bowls.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Make soup:
• In a saucepan cook onion in butter over moderate heat, stirring, until softened. Add carrots, cumin, and salt and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add water and simmer mixture, covered, 25 minutes, or until carrots are very tender.
• Prepare pecans while carrot soup is simmering:
• On a baking sheet toast pecans in middle of oven 8 minutes, or until fragrant and 1 shade darker. Toss pecans with butter a nd salt to taste.
• In a blender purée soup until smooth.
• Divide soup between 2 soup bowls and top with pecans.

Steps:

• Heat the butter in a deep saucepan over a medium heat until just starting to sizzle, then fry the cumin seeds until toasted and crackling.
• Add the onion, leek, garlic, star anise, carrots and a pinch of salt. Stir to coat. Cover, reduce the heat to low and cook gently for 15-20 mins, stirring occasionally until the vegetables have softened in their own steam.
• Pour over the stock and bring the mixture to a simmer, then continue to cook for 10 mins until the carrots are tender. Spoon 2 tbsp of the cream into a small dish and set aside, then pour the rest into the pan and bring back to the boil. Remove the star anise and use a hand blender to blitz the mixture until smooth and silky. Or, tip into a standard blender in batches and blitz before returning to the pan. For a really smooth soup, push through a sieve into a saucepan. At this stage, the soup can be cooled completely and chilled for up to three days or frozen for six months. Defrost fully before reheating. Reheat until piping hot over a low heat, then pour into bowls, drizzle with the reserved cream and scatter the extra cumin seeds on top. Serve with these cheese, cumin & onion seed cornbread muffins, if you like.

Steps:

• Fry the onion in a little oil until it softens.
• Add the cumin and chili and cook for a minute then add the carrot, sugar and stock and bring to a simmer.
• Cook for 10 minutes or until the carrot is very soft, then whizz in a blender. Add some more stock or water if the soup is too thick and reheat if you need to.
• Stir through the cilantro, season well.
• Add a spoonful of crème fraîche to each bowl to serve, if you like.

Steps:

• Bring onions, garlic, carrots, celery, stock and water to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer until vegetables are tender (approx 30 minutes).
• Remove from heat, strain vegetables (reserving the stock).
• Blend vegetables in a food processor or blender until smooth.
• Stir in ground almonds and enough stock to make desired soup consistency.
• Add cumin and black pepper.