Winter and Soups

Do you want to know what I like about Winter? Soups.

Imagine that you have a mug of hot home-made soup and you sit in front of the fireplace watching your favorite TV programme, uhmm, nice! :-)

One thing that is very important, though when making a home-made soup, is the quality of the vegetables. Yes, since Winter vegetables are mainly root vegetables they have the higher amount of pesticides and heavy metals, so it is paramount to use only organic ones.

Here is one of my favorite recipe, try it:

Ingredients

2 large potatoes
3 or 4 large carrots
1 swede or celery
1 turnip or 3 parsnips
2 large onions
2 tbsp olive oil
2 bay leaves
1/2 chicken (skinned) or Tofu
2L of hot water
Salt and pepper to taste



Cooking Instructions

Peel all the vegetables and roughly chop them. Heat the olive oil in a large cooking pan, toss in the onions and briefly sauté them to bring out the flavor. Add all the rest of the vegetables, the bay leaves and the chicken. Add the water to cover and allow to simmer until well cooked - (about 1 hour).

When cooked add pepper and salt to taste. Remove the bay leaves, take half the soup and puree to the desired consistency. Put all the soup together and enjoy with crusty bread sprinkled with some olive oil.

'Till next time!