Parsley soup

[Hyacinth]

Now that last year's parsley is making lots of growth before going to seed this year, thought you might like this from a vegetarian cookbook:-

1 large onion 2 large carrots 50g/2oz/1/4 cup butter 150g/5oz potato 900ml/1.5 pints/3.75 cups chicken stock Sea salt and black pepper 25g/1oz/0.75 cups parsley, heads only

Peel the onion, clean the carrots and slice them all very thinly; there should be roughly equal amounts of each. Heat the butter in a pan and stew the onion and carrot gently for about 6 minutes. Add the peeled and thinly sliced potato. After 3 more minutes pour on the heated stock. Add salt and pepper and simmer, covered for 35 minutes, then leave to cool slightly. Puree in a blender with the parsley, then reheat, adding extra seasoning as required.

[Hyacinth]

[tim]

Must try!

Wish there was a soup using handfuls of Chives.

[supersprout]

Sounds lovely lish, but where's the cream?  :P
When I trimmed the chives last week after planting out tim, I discovered that you can get handfuls of chopped chives with sour cream into a baked spud ;D

[Hyacinth]

Sprout, the recipe book is vegan - therefore no cream! Add a swirl of cream just before serving?

Tim -  Was looking at my hedge of chives yesterday & decided to try chive and potato soup today....I'll report back.

[telboy]

Lishka,
The book was Vegan?
How was it with the chicken stock then?
Presume it was a stock cube? Eating dead yeast cells then?

[Hyacinth]

The original recipe was from a vegan book - my adaptation put in the stock cube, not no way was I going to use soya milk (intended to type "nut no way", but I rather like it as it came out.....try again...."but"  ::)) ;D

[Trixiebelle]

Mmmmmmmmmm .. that sounds lovely Lishka  ;D Funnily enough I was Googling parsley recipes last night and found this site/recipe!

http://www.parsleysoup.co.uk/SoupsStarters/parsley_drop_scones.htm

I was going to make the drop scones tonight for tea but they didn't have any baking powder in the Co-Op  ::)

What does baking powder 'do' anyway??

[Hyacinth]

I've seen that recipe too! - and I didn't do it cos I didn't have s.r.flour OR baking powder.....think it's an extra rising agent, praps? Like a booster rocket? ::)