Soup Me !

The delicious soup before mixing! :)

Yesterday, my husband & I pulled fresh Jerusalem artichokes aka sunchokes, aka topinambours in French & aardperen in my language, Dutch out of the ground! You have to know that we have 6 x 4 meter high plants & we pulled one, out of the ground. We got lovely tubers & they weighted all together 4 kg!!! Ooh yes, baby! :) We were so proud & very happy! We grew the Canadian variety! Don’t they look amazing?

Home-grown!

I used a big part of them into this delicious vegan & gluten-free soup! Now, just look again at them, well washed:

Let’s see how I made this delicious soup!!

Recipe: For a whole lot of soup

Ingredients:

830 gr fresh Jerusalem artichokes ( 600 gr netto), well-washed, peeled thinly, cut up & put into a bowl with clean water & some vinegar, to keep the chokes white. I added some white balsamic vinegar to the bowl.

300 gr netto, peeled carrots, cut up into thinner rounds

1 teaspoon fresh thyme needles

20 grins of black pepper, finely grinned

15 grins of Himalayan pink salt in a grinder

1000 ml of a hot vegan gluten-free stock

a fruity extra virgin olive oil

2 small white onions, peeled & cut up into rings

Method:

Take a soup pot & heat up on medium-high. When hot, add some drizzles of that fruity oil. Now, add chopped onion & carrot rounds. Season with some black pepper & some salt. Fry for about 5 minutes & add more oil if you need to.
Then, add chopped drained sunchokes. Season generous with the thyme & some extra black pepper. Now, fry them for about 5-8 minutes.
Finally, pour that hot stock over it all & stir everything round into the pot. Place fitted lid on. Boil your soup until everything has been cooked through. This took me 10 minutes. At the end, check your seasoning one last time.
I blended my soup with an immersion blender. This soup will be thicker & you can taste the chokes really well. It is a bit more sweet because of the carrots! Yum, I say! :) Enjoy with a good slice of spelt sourdough bread with some vegan butter or with a good slice of a Gluten-free bread, smeared with vegan butter like this one: Gluten-free triple quinoa bread!

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