Carrot, Ginger and smoked paprika soup.

So I always make the best things when I am messing about, and I decided I need to eat more orange vegetables, because its good for your skin and thought it might help with the wrinkles and all that. So I messed about with some carrots and came up with a soup which the vegetarian said was one of the best soups he's ever eaten, its quite hard to impress him actually so I thought it was probably worth blogging the recipe.

So here are the ingredients for a soup for 4 people:

6 large carrots
1 onion
1 large shallot
2 cloves of garlic,
chicken stock (1 cube)
2 inch chunk of fresh ginger
1/2 tsp of hot chili powder
1tsp - 1.5tp of smoked paprika depending on taste.
Salt and fresh pepper to taste.
Parmesan grated to serve

So chop up onions, and fry in olive oil till soft, then add the crushed garlic and finely chopped shallot, then grate in the ginger, making sure all the juice goes in.
Slice the carrots and add them all in and keep cooking until soft and add seasoning.

Add stock and simmer until carrots are soft, then blend with a hand blender, stir in the chilli and paprika and serve and sprinkle Parmesan to serve.

Comments

[Elly]

OK, Guinebeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer, a question:

I haven't got any paprika. Can I just heat it dry in a pan to make it think that it is smoked? Or just stick it straight?

Mmmm, wine is good...