That's dill sprinkled on top of the soup. Extra bump of flavor. |
Here is a super easy and very quick soup for a week night
meal; be sure to include something hearty like my basil-butter bread to round
out the menu. I also made a simple onion and fresh tomato relish to serve on
the toasty bread. Excellent. We ate every crumb and slurped every drip.
Lotsa Vegetable Chowder (from “Forks Over Knives” by Del
Sroufe, pg 94)
Here’s what
you need:
8 small
Yukon Gold potatoes, cut into ½ inch cubes
½ small
onion, peeled and chopped
3 ears fresh
corn, kernels removed, cobs reserved
2 medium
carrots, peeled and diced
2 stalks of
celery, chopped
½ C chopped
red bell pepper
1 C chopped
broccoli and cauliflower stalks – remove the fibrous outer parts
1 clove
garlic, peeled and minced
2 T fresh
thyme or ½ T dried thyme or to taste
2 t ground
cumin or to taste
3 T fresh
dill or ½ T dried dill or to taste
Salt and
pepper to taste
Here’s what
you do:
Prepare all
the veggies. Place the potatoes, onion, corn kernels, corn cobs, carrots,
celery, red pepper, broccoli/cauliflower, garlic, thyme, cumin and 6 cups of
water in a large soup pot. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and cook for
about 30 minutes or until all the veg is very soft.
Remove the
corn cobs and use the back of a knife to scrape out the starchy corn bits still
left in the cob. Discard the cobs and add the creamy corn starch back to the
pot. Remove 1 cup of soup from the pot and mix in a blender until totally
smooth. Return to the pot. If you like a smoother, creamier soup, you could
blend 2 cups of soup.
Season with
salt, lots of cracked pepper and lots of dill. I allowed the soup to simmer for another little while to thicken it more. I also seasoned it with some vegetable stock concentrate.
For my
Basil-Butter Bread I simply creamed some pesto from my freezer with some Earth
Balance butter and smeared it over a crusty loaf of bread. Bake. Broil. Toast.
Cut in slices.
For my
Onion-Tomato Relish I simply warmed sweet onions and sweet tomatoes over a very
low heat until all juicy and melty.
(printable recipe)
(printable recipe)
This sounds like the perfect dinner. I love every thing about it.
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