Posts Tagged soup
Asian Pork Soup
Posted by Eileen Devlin in Appetizers, Low Calorie, Main Course, Pork, Side Dishes, Vegetables, soup on January 30th, 2010
I was going to save this till later in the week but since I was feeling a bit under the weather and needed some comfort food I had a feeling this soup would do the trick. This was excellent and very simple.
You’ll need:
1 tbsp canola oil
12 oz lean boneless pork, cut into thin bite size strips
2 c freshly sliced shiitake mushroooms
2 c garlic, minced
3-14 oz cans chicken broth
2 tbsp dry sherry
2 tbsp reduced sodium soy sauce
2 tsp grated fresh ginger/1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
2 c shredded napa cabbage
1 green onion, thinly sliced
fresh cilantro sprigs
1. In lg saucepan heat oil over med heat; add pork, cook and stir for 2-3 mins or until slightly pink in the center. Remove from pan and set aside. add mushrooms and garlic and cook until tender.
2. Stir in chicken broth, sherry soy, ginger, and pepper. Bring to boiling. Stir in pork, napa cabbage, and green onion; heat through. If desired, garnish with cilantro. Makes 6-1 c servings.
Nutritional Information:
Calories: 160
Total Fat: 6 g
Cholesterol: 31 mg
Protein: 16 g
Carbohydrate: 10 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 169 mg
Creamy Chicken Asparagus Soup
Posted by Van Santos in soup on January 15th, 2010
About two weeks ago Peter, over at Greek Food and Beyond, posted a recipe for Creamy Asparagus Soup. I love Creamy soups, my favorite is the Chicken Pasta soup that J.Alexander’s serves, so when I found a recipe that looked appetizing I needed to go for it. Sure, I have no experience with making any creamy-based soup but I wasn’t going to let that stop me!
I made three small changes to this recipe, but we’ll get to that in a second.
The Recipe
1/4 cup olive oil
3 leeks (white parts)
2 bay leaves (crushed, spines removed)
1 tsp dried thyme
3 Russet potatoes
8-9 cups of chicken stock
2 bunches of asparagus
1/2 cup of cream
1 tsp salt
pepper to taste
1 lb cooked dark chicken chunks (I used the leftovers from the Lemon Chicken)
And the process…
In a nice sized soup pot add your olive oil over medium heat and add the chopped leeks, crushed bay leaves thyme and chicken, stir for about 10
Now grate your potatoes through the large holes of your box grater and stir in with the leeks. Simmer for about five minutes.
While the leek/potato/chicken mix is cooking, cut your asparagus separating the tips and the stem.
Add your stock, salt, pepper and the chopped asparagus stems, bring to a boil. Simmer for about 25 minutes.
Creamy Asparagus Soup? Really?
In a second pot bring water to a boil, add your asparagus tips and boil for 2-3 minutes. Remove and blanche the tips in ice-cold water.
Once the soup is ready puree with a hand blender while adding the cream (I went with one cup).
Place in a bowl, add your asparagus tips – top with freshly ground black pepper and Parmesan cheese.
That looks better, almost like Creamy Chicken Asparagus Soup!
Peter has a great soup recipe here. I couldn’t stop eating this, and I even put some in the freezer for later. On my next go around I plan on making the soup a wee bit thicker, creamier… but one who enjoys a good creamy soup cannot go wrong here.
My changes – I added one tsp of salt as I used stock which, usually, is lower salt. I ground up the bay leaves to a nice flake consistency, and I added the chicken for a little extra something. Have fun!
Tomato florentine soup
Posted by monicajane in Food, Side Dishes, soup on August 26th, 2009
This soup was inspired by my local Earth Fare super-market which serves something akin to this with the same name in it’s hot bar. This is my version of what is clearly tomato and spinach soup. Beyond that I chose all the ingredients. It’s very good, but different than the soup at Earth Fare. They are both very good. I like that I can go to Earth Fare and get something delicious and different that I don’t have to cook!
Ingredients:
1 lb frozen chopped spinach
28 oz can whole tomatoes with juice (smooshed by hand one at a time into the pot)
14 oz can of tomato sauce
2 large onions diced into very small pieces
6 cloves of garlic diced
40 oz vegetable stock
2 cups heavy cream
2 tsp dried dill
3 tbls pesto or a bunch of fresh basil
1 tsp red pepper flakes
Salt to taste
I have been taking short cuts to make these soups and not cooking anything before putting everything into the stock. I just throw everything into the stock and boil. They’re turning out really great so if that is all you have time for don’t hesitate to do that.
If you want to take more time, then by all means, saute the onions and garlic. It can only improve an already damn good soup.
Cook everything except the cream until very soft.
Add the cream once the soup is off the fire. Do not reheat to boiling once the cream has been added.
Enjoy!! It’s delightfully rich and light at the same time.
Carrot and zucchini cream soup
Posted by monicajane in Food, Recipes on August 24th, 2009
Ingredients:
7 med to large carrots
3 med to large zucchini (I used traditional green zucchini because we have them in our garden right now, a yellow squash might keep the color of the soup brighter and taste essentially the same)
32 oz vegetable stock
4 cloves of garlic
2 medium onions
2 tsp cayenne
4 tbls pesto (or a bunch of fresh basil)
8 oz heavy cream
Salt to taste
This was very easy. I simply cut up the carrots, zucchini, onion and garlic and threw it all into the vegetable stock. At this point I also added the pesto. I brought it to a boil and then lowered the temp and cooked it until it was very soft.
I let it cool and then I took out all the chunks of veggies and blended them until smooth in a the blender. Poured it all back into the pot and added the 8 oz of cream and the cayenne. Do not heat the soup to boiling once the cream has been added.
It was very scrumptious!!
