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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham  One of the things I make with great regularity is Carrot and Coriander soup. It bares no resemblance to the crap you get in a can, or the tasteless pap you buy in tubs. It's also quick, easy and cheap.
Ingredients:
1kg-1.2kg carrots.
A wee pack of fresh coriander
Dried Cumin
Dried Coriander
1 x Onion
Veggie stock cubes
Instructions:
Roughly chop the onion and place in a large pot with a little olive oil on a low heat. Leave it to brown whilst you deal with the carrots.
Peel and very roughly chop the lot (it's all being blitzed with a hand blender at the end anyway).
Chuck them in the pan with the onions, crank the temperature up and add roughly 2 big tablespoons of dry coriander and 1 large table spoon of cumin. Stir every 30 seconds or so just until the herbs have started sticking to everything and the carrots have softened slightly (about 5 minutes).
Add boiling water, fill it up so that the carrots are just covered. Chuck about 3 veggie stock cubes in there. Don't worry about them breaking down, the vanish into the mix when it's simmering.
Put a lid on and leave on a low heat for 40 minutes.
Roughly chop about three quarters of your coriander and chuck it in. Attack it with a hand blender, season to taste and kapow! Soup!
Use the last of the coriander as garnish. |
Coriander ruins perfectly good carrot soup.
