This Szechuan style carrot soup is made with basic pantry ingredients and will warm you from the inside out.
Course Soup
Cuisine Asian
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 35 minutesminutes
Servings 4servings
Calories 164kcal
Author Karen Bertelsen
Cost $5
Equipment
immersion blender
Ingredients
1medium onion
2stalkscelery
1clovegarlicminced
1teaspoonvegetable oil
1lbcarrotscut 1" (or baby carrots uncut)
½"fresh gingerpeeled & sliced
¼teaspoonpepper flakes
3cupschicken broth
1 ½Tbspssoy sauce
½tablespoonpeanut butter
1tablespoonsugar
1teaspoonSesame OilI use toasted
1cupmilk
4tablespoonsour cream
Instructions
Cook the onion, celery and garlic in oil until the onion is softened.
Grab yourself a fresh hunk of ginger. About ½ an inch is good for me, but you can add more (if you’re crazy like thaor less (if you’re crazy like that). Peel your knob of ginger, then slice it thinly.
Add the sliced ginger to the softened onions along with about ¼ teaspoon of red pepper flakes.
Add the 3 cups of chicken broth to the pot which now includes onion, celery, garlic, ginger and pepper flakes.
Add the carrots!
Cover the pot and simmer until the carrots are tender.
Remove pot from heat and add the remaining ingredients to the pot. (Soy Sauce, Peanut Butter, Sugar, Sesame Oil and Milk)
Blend the soup with either an immersion or regular blender. Rewarm the soup on the stove if necessary, but be careful not to boil it because of the milk. If you don’t want to worry about the soup boiling (or calories) use whipping cream in place of milk.
Serve the soup with a big dollop of sour cream on top.
Notes
To peel ginger just scrape the skin away with a spoon. It the fastest, easiest way to do it.
Have a leftover bag of those baby carrots? Use them up in soup.
Want to add a little kick to ANY soup? Throw in ¼ teaspoon of pepper flakes.
Still saving up for a Vitamix? Use an inexpensive immersion blender. They work GREAT for so many things, soups especially.
You can do WHATEVER you want to a soup recipe to make it your own. Like it hotter? Add more pepper flakes. Like it thinner? Add more broth or milk.
Get hot pepper flakes in your eye? Rinse with milk. Yes. Seriously. Milk. Read about it here.