Onion – Agapi.Style

Cream soup of pumpkin and apples with herb butter

This is the perfect soup for the end of summer/beginning of autumn, when the harvest of apples and pumpkins has already ripened, but there are still fresh, fragrant greens. The taste combines a whole palette of shades: sour (apples), sweet (pumpkin, carrots), bitter (chili, onion, garlic) and plus aromatic oil. It turns out an amazing balance. Everyone try;))

Ingredients for the soup:

• 1 small pumpkin, I have Hokkaido (1.3-1.5 kg),

• 2 large onion heads,

• 2 large apples or 3 small ones

• 1-2 carrots (optional, but it tastes better),

• 1-2 sticks of celery (optional, but more flavorful with it),

• 4 cloves of garlic (I generally put the head),

• Vegetable broth/chicken broth/water – 1 l. approximately (depends on the thickness of the soup you like),

• Olive oil – 2 tbsp.,

• Thyme – 4 branches or 1 tsp dry (instead of thyme,you can try to make a soup with sage or oregano),

• Ground chili – 0.25 – 0.5 tsp or to taste,

• Salt and pepper – to taste.

For satiety and increase the amount of protein in the dish, you can add a couple of handfuls of white already cooked beans to the soup. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise the taste will not be so bright. But don’t worry, it can be balanced by adding a little more spice;)

Ingredients for green oil:

• 1 medium-sized bunch of coriander or parsley, or a mix of them (I like the mix the most),

• 4-5 tbsp olive oil,

• 2 tbsp white wine vinegar or Apple cider vinegar,

• Optional garlic and onion powder 0.5 tsp.,

• Optional 2-3 tablespoons of water or to taste, to bring the sauce to the desired consistency,

• Salt and pepper to taste.

How to do:

1. All the vegetables/fruits to wash. Peel the onions and carrots if they are old. The young one can be left with the skin. Cut the pumpkin into 4 pieces, remove the insides with the seeds. Cut the carrots randomly, but smaller than the pumpkin. Cut the onion into 6 parts: that is, first in half, and each half into 3 more slices. Remove the core from the apples and cut them into 2-4 pieces. Celery cut into 4-6 parts. Garlic cloves divide by 1 piece. If you’re baking a whole head, like me, then cut off the top to show the cloves. Through these holes, we will then extract the baked garlic easily and simply.

2. Put everything from the first point on a baking sheet with baking paper, sprinkle with oil, throw the leaves with thyme, mix and bake at 160C until the onions and carrots are caramelized. It’s an hour, maybe two.

If you are in a hurry, set the temperature to 180C. It will be faster, but the vegetables are more likely to be boiled with baked edges. Also would be delicious, but the long baking gives the soup a unique taste umumnya;)

3. Remove the pulp from the finished pumpkin and Apple with a spoon and transfer it to a blender or saucepan, if you have an immersion blender. Peel the garlic and there, as well as all other vegetables and broth/water, bring the soup to a uniform consistency.

Only then season the soup with salt/pepper, chili and additional thyme. Try it, if the soup turned out to be sweet with a moderate sourness, quite sharp, but not too much, then it is ready! Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring. Turn off, let stand for 5-10 minutes, with the lid slightly open.

4. Do green oil. Put all the ingredients in a blender, except salt and pepper, and bring to a smooth finish. Try, add seasonings gradually, bring to a balanced taste.

5. Pour the soup into a plate, top with 2-3 tablespoons of green oil. I also sprinkle a little sweet paprika for beauty and put a spoonful of cashew mayonnaise (recipe here). By the way, bread croutons, which are always appropriate for mashed soups, can also be smeared with fragrant oil. Bon appetit!

Shakshuka of my dreams with goat cheese

I love shakshuka and I tried it in different places in different recipes. In the end, I have formed a very clear understanding of what needs to be shakshuka of my dreams) I love to do it with lots of vegetables (traditionally with tomatoes and onions and roasted sweet peppers), spicy and use a whole bunch of spices for diversity of taste. Served with warm bread and goat cheese, well at the very least simply with curd. It’s so delicious!

My recipe is a bit complex, but I describe a more simple version of it, so don’t be alarmed and definitely try to prepare.

Ingredients for shakshuka (serves 4):

• 8 chicken eggs or to taste,

• 800 g (2 cans) tomatoes in own juice/tomatoes Pilati, or 6-7 large fresh tomatoes

• 2 PCs. onions medium size,

• 2 pieces sweet red pepper (take large fleshy),

• 2-4 pieces hot chili pepper (depends on the variety of pepper or your love of spiciness), can be replaced by 0.5-2 tsp. ground dry chili pepper.

• 6 cloves of garlic,

• 2 tbsp tomato paste (optional to enhance the tomato flavor),

• 2 tbsp of sweetener (I have Jerusalem artichoke syrup),

• 1 tbsp Apple cider vinegar (it’s not for acid, but for the taste, it is not necessary to substitute other types of vinegar),

• 2 tsp ground paprika,

• 0,5-1 teaspoon smoked paprika (optional, try first to do without, and then with paprika),

• 1 teaspoon of ground cumin,

• 1 tsp ground coriander,

• 1 tsp oregano/marjoram,

• 0.5 tsp. cumin,

• 0.5 teaspoon of turmeric,

• 2 Bay leaves,

• 2 gvozdichki,

• Salt and black pepper to taste.

Ingredients for serving:

• Goat cheese to taste (you can substitute cottage cheese, cheese, feta),

• Bread/pita (preferably freshly baked, or heated in the oven),

• Herbs (parsley, cilantro, chives, mint), I like a little bit of everything to add

• Olive oil to sprinkle on top (optional).

Also it can be very helpful in hummus, the babaganoush was or grilled eggplant with garlic, you get a very satisfying Breakfast or even lunch, and maybe dinner;)

How to do:

I recommend doing sosus to shakshuk for the future. Some days he just lie down in the refrigerator, it can freeze and then just heat, beat in your eggs and enjoy.

1. The first thing you need to roast a pepper. My it cut in half, remove the seeds and again opolaskivaniem to accurately remove all unnecessary. Put on a baking sheet cut down. Bake at 200 C to a strong tan markings. Then remove the pepper in an airtight container, allow to cool. While it cools, make shakshuka on, and then come back to it, remove the skin and cut the flesh in small dice.

I baked the pepper and not just put it to obzhivatjsya with a bow for two reasons: so the dish won’t be tough pepper skin from the grilled peppers taste so much richer and more interesting. If you lazy to bother, then skip this paragraph and go directly to step 2.

2. Now prepare all the other ingredients. Onion peel and cut into small dice, chili pepper clean away the veins and seeds, the garlic, peel and punch in a blender along with red chilli in the paste. If blender will not cope, add a bit of tomato. If no blender, then finely chop the pepper, and the garlic through a garlic crusher.

If you decided not to roast sweet peppers, then wash it well from extra cleaned, cut into small-small cubes and fry together with the onion (see p. 3).

3. On a small amount of vegetable oil fry the onion with the Bay leaf and cloves to a caramel shade. It should not be burnt, but cooked should not be, so do everything on medium heat, do not hurry.

4. Then take out the cloves and throw out, and to the onions add the tomato, garlic, chili, cumin, coriander, cumin, turmeric and fry while stirring until the appearance of a garlic flavor (about 30 seconds), then add to the roasted peppers and tomatoes. Stir and tormented over medium heat stirring occasionally until the sauce is well thickened (about 20 minutes, maybe more).

5. When the sauce is ready, take out a Bay leaf and stock, and add the remaining spices (paprika, oregano, salt, pepper, Apple cider vinegar and sweetener). Try and balance the taste that was sharp enough to your taste, spicy and definitely not sour. Should be so delicious that you’ll want to eat the sauce already in this form. If so, then he is ready.

Important. Keep in mind that cheese and eggs slightly soften the taste, so it needs to be a little too much.

6. Make sauce of deepening and break them on the egg without damaging the egg yolk. Can leave it as is, or stir in a little protein to the sauce, and the yolk mix if you like. I love the whole yolk and stir with the sauce for a protein. Cook eggs on medium heat until whitening of the protein, the yolk should remain liquid. I recommend to cover the pan to make it happen faster.

Important. If you use cheese or hard cheese, then cut it into cubes and fold into the sauce, and then break in your eggs.

7. Serve shakshuka, posypav chopped herbs and a sprinkle of fragrant olive oil with a spoonful of cottage cheese goat cheese and warm bread. There are highly recommend by hand(!). Take a piece of bread and it as a spoon to scoop the egg with a spicy sauce and cheese. Just fly away!

Memo with what to eat pancakes

I honestly often forget the stuffing, which cooked pancakes, so I decided to make a post in which as in a notebook will record all of them, so as not to strain your brain each pancake)))

So here’s what I currently have (the list will be updated):

1. The most simple, loving.

• All kinds of jams/preserves,

• Honey,

• Syrup (especially maple),

• Salted caramel,

• Condensed milk + optional ground cardamom (didn’t want to include in the list, but many of her love),

• Chocolate sauce (not purchased, and melted chocolate with milk),

• Nut paste,

• Halva,

• Sour cream,

• Yogurt,

• Different cheese

• Cheese,

• Fish,

• Caviar,

• Fruit/berries.

2. Complicated sweet.

• Poppy-seed filling,

• Vanilla curd with berries, fruit or sauce of them

• Cottage cheese stuffed with nuts, dried fruit and honey/jam,

• Curd with banana/figs,

• Nut filling with dried fruit,

• Homemade Nutella and fruit

• Homemade salted caramel out of dates,

• Fried banana with chocolate and peanut butter,

• Caramelized apples with cinnamon, raisins and nuts,

• Ice cream and berries/fruit sauce

• Fruit or berry toppings on creamy-based

• Pancake cake.

3. More complicated not really sweet or not sweet.

• Cheese type sauce tzatziki,

• Cheese with herbs,

• Cheese/cream cheese with pickled/salted cucumbers and greens,

• Goat cheese and caramelized onion or roasted leeks,

• Goat cheese and spinach,

• Goat cheese, honey, nuts, thyme,

• Cottage cheese/ricotta cheese, honey/jam and nuts

• Blue cheese and pear,

• Carmelitana pear and blue cheese ice cream,

• Baked pumpkin with blue cheese and caramelized onions,

• Baked pumpkin and cream cheese

• Camembert and berry sauce

• Mozzarella and sun-dried tomatoes,

• Different humusy,

• Salmon and cream cheese,

• Herring with pickled onions and fresh Apple

• Mushroom stuffing,

• Mushroom stuffing with chicken,

• Pate and caramelized onions,

• Classic pancakes with meat

• Cheese and meat with mustard sauce

• Baked ham with creamy horseradish and pickled cucumbers,

• Duck with Hoisin sauce,

• Baked crispy bacon and maple syrup.

Let me remind you that recipe for pancakes in which to wrap the filling – here.

All my pancakes can be found in the section of breakfasts here.

Mind-blowing Shawarma with falafel

This dish is perfect for parties because it can be requested to procure parts and then just twist Shawarma with ease.

You need to prepare the babaganoush was, hummus, falafel with yogurt sauce (click on a word and go to the recipes).

You will also need: pita bread, lettuce, any what like, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, red cabbage, if you like red sweet onions. It is good to wash. Lettuce and onion slice, carrot and cabbage finely shred. Tomatoes to cut and it is desirable to remove the seeds to reduce the moisture. Cucumbers cleaned and cut into strips.

How to make Shawarma:

1. Preheat the grill pan well, or a regular non-stick pan, preferably with a thick bottom. I put the fire 7 of 9.

2. While it heats, take the pita, spread the entire surface of the yogurt sauce, leaving a clean distant edge, so that when you minimize the sauce does not leak outside of the gyro.

3. Next, put some lettuce and other vegetables, then spread a thick strip of babaganush, hummus, put in a row falafel, pour more yogurt sauce and turn the Shawarma more elastic.

I edge not wrapped on the sides, the filling is in principle not particularly falls. You do as you wish. Plus, at its discretion, can add tomato sauce, hot sauce, who he loves. But I have such a recipe, no extra sauces, because then all the ingredients are pretty spicy.

4. Put the Shawarma in a very heated pan and fry until crisp lavash with 2 sides. If you have a grill pan, the pita bread should appear Golden stripes.

5. When ready put in a plate, cut in half and enjoy the juicy Shawarma. Well, it turns out very tasty!

Baked falafel with yogurt tahini sauce + an important life skill

Falafel is patties of chickpeas. The most delicious falafel a deep-fried, anyway. Frying I eat in the café, a home cook less fatty baked version. It is also delicious, especially until piping hot.

Ingredients for the falafel:

• 250-300g dry chickpeas,

• 1 medium onion,

• 3-4 garlic cloves,

• Bunch fresh cilantro, medium size,

• A bunch of parsley in a medium-size

• 1 tsp ground paprika,

• 1 tsp. ground cumin (cumin),

• 1-2 tsp ground coriander,

• 0.5 tsp. ground red chili peppers

• 1 tsp. black pepper,

• 1 tsp. salt,

• Optional water.

Ingredients for sauce:

• 200-250 ml of Greek yogurt without additives,

• 3 tbsp tahini,

• Juice of half a lemon,

• 1-2 cloves garlic,

• Pinch of cumin and coriander,

• Salt/pepper to taste

• Water to bring the sauce to the consistency of sour cream.

How to make falafel:

1. Wash the chickpeas and soak overnight in clear cold water, or at least for 8 hours. Then drain the water and rinse him well.

2. Garlic and onion peel and rinse with herbs.

3. Now all the ingredients you need to punch in a blender, but not to the cereal. Chickpea should be wet snow grains. But if you punch it all together, the garlic, onions and herbs can also be quite large, and believe me it is not very tasty in the end.

So I came up with the following hack: first punch all the ingredients except the chickpeas until smooth, and then add the chickpeas. I prefer to grind herbs and spices immersion blender. If the mixture is very thick, add a little water. Then add the chickpeas and bring it to the consistency that I described above. Not until the porridge!

Your gram “farsh” ready!

4. Sculpt his balls with a diameter of about 3cm. Can bake, and can the raw Flatline to freeze for the future. Freeze, spread out in a row. Already frozen meatballs can be folded into a container. Or just put in a container, but each layer to lay the oiled baking paper so they don’t stick together.

Bake in well-heated to 180C oven for about 40 minutes. Or 20 minutes at a maximum temperature of oven (I have 240S). I have not decided which way I like more. Try both;)

Falafel must purchase a savory crust, but the inside to remain soft, will not overdry it.

Keep in mind that if you make the meatballs more, they may not topicsa, and if it is less, then dry. Also the cooking time depends on the heat of the oven. Practice a couple of times and you will have a perfect falafel.

Store ready falafel is not recommended, because it loses its flavor. Cooked – eaten. Or that is not eaten immediately in the freezer. When warming up in the oven it is almost as svezhesdelannym)

To make the sauce couldn’t be simpler: all in the blender and bring to smooth consistency. To try spices, add what you need and you’re done.

Falafel served with vegetables (lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers without peel). Vegetables pour a little sauce to dip the falafel in there. Very tasty!

But most of all I love Shawarma with falafel (recipe here).

The most delicious lobio + detailed instructions on how to cook beans

Lobio is a dish that everyone cooks to your taste. Who loves the cold, who is hot, with or without nuts, with herbs and spices all play as they want. Below is my perfect recipe;)

Ingredients:

• 500g of cooked red beans (about 200-250g dry),

• 3 large onions,

• 3-4 tooth. garlic

• 1 large bunch cilantro or 1 bunch of cilantro and parsley,

• 50-60g of walnuts,

• 2 pieces hot pepper or 1 tsp. adzhika Georgian/Cayenne pepper,

• 3 tbsp wine vinegar,

• 2 tablespoons of utsho-suneli,

• 1 tsp dried Basil,

• 1 tsp. ground coriander,

• 0.5 tsp. dried mint

• Oil for frying

• Salt/pepper to taste.

How to do:

1. Cooking the beans.

Sort out beans, wash and soak for 8-24 hours. The volume of beans after soaking will increase by 1.5-2 times, keep this in mind when choosing containers for soaking. And I do not recommend buying old beans, please see to it that she was not older than 6 months from production date.

After soaking the beans, wash thoroughly, put in a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour the water above beans by about 3 inches and cook on meelena fire. Slow, because if the beans very quickly to boil, the shell can burst, and we do not need it. After boiling, cook the beans for 5 minutes and drain off the first water. This is recommended to avoid problems with the gastrointestinal tract, but rather with the advent of gas after eating legumes. I’ve never done that before, but then I realized that it is not difficult and really helps. Some to 3 water change, but I don’t do)))

Then again fill fool water above beans by about 3 cm, podsalvage water, add a few tablespoons of vegetable oil (it prevents the formation of large amount of foam) and cook on a slow fire until tender. In the process do not stir the beans and don’t close the lid completely. Not need to interfere, so as not to damage the skin and shape of the Bob, and the lid is not close to the beans are kept red. But the color in my experience it depends more on the grade, but the open cap sometimes it really saves a bit.

In General, the beans to cook for 45 minutes to 2.5 hours. The duration of cooking depends on the variety and condition of the beans. Try in the process. Bean should be firm outside and soft inside. If cooking water boils away, add some hot water.

There is an Express method of cooking beans (without soaking). Podgotavlivaya beans for cooking as described above, then bring to the boil, cook for 5 minutes over high heat, then leave for 1-2 hours under the hood to infuse. Then rinse, fill with new water and cook until tender, the duration, again, depends on the variety and the dishes for which it is intended. I after 40 minutes of cooking the beans periodically try.

The beans are ready drain in a colander, broth leave.

Unable to beans as in a conventional broth whole onion, carrot, celery stick, Bay leaf, a few gvozdichek and add any spices to your taste. But it is optional.

And I usually optimize my time and cook a lot of beans (and all legumes), and then just freeze the unused balance together with water from boiling in plastic containers and pull out as needed.

2. While cooking the beans, make a salad lobio.

Rinse the nuts and puree them either in a meat grinder or in a blender. Lay off a little for decoration. Greens finely chop and set aside too little for filing. Peppers are cleaned from veins and seeds and puree them in a blender. Garlic passed through chesnokodavilku or punched together with red pepper. All of this mix and add all the spices and wine vinegar.

3. Towards the end of cooking the beans finely chop the onion and fry it in oil on medium heat until Golden brown, add boiled beans and tormented for 5 more minutes.

4. Put beans and onion in a salad bowl, add the walnut dressing, stir. Try and add salt/pepper to your taste, you can put a little vegetable oil or broth from the beans if they will be dry. A little dry but it should not be, because in my recipe, too much onion and it just gives the sweetness and juiciness to the dish. I like to give lobio stand for 30 minutes – 1 hour at room temperature and then serve, but you can just have.

Scrambled eggs with roasted pumpkin, Gorgonzola and caramelized onions

An amazing combination of pumpkin with herbs, cheese and sweet onion can be used in many dishes. I’m doing with it, and pasta and pizza, but for Breakfast decided to use for the first time, and for good reason. This is the bomb!

First you need to make caramelized onions. I wrote the recipe here. Recommend to do a lot, because with this miracle ingredient can be cooked many delicious dishes (recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3).

Pumpkin is also baked a whole pan. If I have something left from cooking eggs, then make her a salad or pasta/pizza, all of which are already mentioned above.

Ingredients for scrambled eggs (1 serving):

• 1-2 eggs,

• 50g Gorgonzola cheese (you can substitute other blue cheese),

• 1 pumpkin medium size (to cut to fit the pan),

• 2 tsp dried oregano,

• 2 tsp dried minced sage or 7-10 leaves fresh.

• 3 cloves of garlic, peel, wash and crush with the flat side of a knife

• Olive oil for roasting the pumpkin – 3 tbsp (can replace with more butter or ghee),

• 2 tbsp caramelized onion,

• Salt/pepper to taste.

How to do:

1. Pumpkin wash, peel, cut into large chunks (3-4 cm), put on a baking tray with baking paper, sprinkle with herbs and garlic, drizzle with olive oil (2 tbsp), stir and bake until soft and light brown for 30-40 minutes at 180C.

2. How will the finished pumpkin, heat up a good nonstick frying pan, spread it 100g pumpkin (3-4 tbsp), onions and 1 tbsp olive oil. Warm up all together a few minutes, then pour on top of eggs in any form (fried, scrambled, omelette), spread randomly broken into pieces of cheese and fry on medium heat until cooked eggs and melt cheese.

3. Friends, this yummy highly recommend serve with a slice of whole-wheat bread, toasted.

Delicious cauliflower soup with nutmeg

I don’t like soups made from ordinary white cabbage, but with cauliflower – very much;) So immediately and do not understand what it is, just feel that vkuuusny!

Ingredients for the soup:

• Cauliflower – 2 small kachna or 1 large,

• 2-3 tablespoons – oil for frying,

• 3-4 large yellow onion bulbs (don’t spare the onion, it gives the desired taste to the soup),

• 400 ml – almond milk (can be replaced with cow’s milk or cream, depending on your love of fat),

• 800 ml – water/vegetable or chicken broth,

• 4-5 cloves of garlic,

• 0.5 tsp – nutmeg,

• Salt – 2 tsp or to taste,

• Pepper – 2 tsp or to taste.

Oregano and sage are also very suitable. I don’t always put them in, according to my mood.

Ingredients for topping:

• Shredded cheddar cheese/cream cheese/blue cheese/Parmesan (you can also put the cheese in the soup itself, as you like).

For 1 serving 30-50 g of cheese. If Parmesan, 1-2 tbsp grated.

• Red caviar – 2-3 tbsp.

• Mushrooms baked or fried with thyme + pine nuts.

For any option, I recommend serving toast from bread

How to do:

1. peel, wash, and chop the Onion and garlic. Wash the cabbage, divide it into inflorescences, cut the stalk, and wash it again.

2. in a large saucepan, heat the oil and add the finely chopped onion, passer until very browned, then add the crushed garlic, fry for 30 seconds until fragrant and throw the cabbage with water/broth. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and cook for 15-20 minutes, until the cabbage is soft.

If the cabbage is not completely immersed in the liquid, it’s okay, it will still be steamed. To speed up the process and cook evenly, stir the contents of the pan periodically.

3. after the cabbage is cooked, add the milk/cream and all the above spices to the soup. Grind the soup with a blender until smooth, taste, add more liquid or spices if necessary. Bring to a boil over low heat and turn off immediately.

4. Pour the soup on plates, sprinkle with freshly ground pepper and put any topping to your taste. If using cheese, let it melt a little.

In my photo, the soup is simple with croutons, balsamic cream and truffle oil. The simplest version, but it is no less delicious than the more complex versions)

By the way, if you put less liquid, you will get a great puree on the side dish or sauce for a hot dish.

Perfect pumpkin cream soup served two ways (with Gorgonzola or Parmesan croutons)

Ingredients:

2 small pumpkins (Butternut, Hokkaido, Provence or any that you like)

2 medium carrots,

2 large onions,

4 garlic cloves,

2 sticks of celery (optional, if you like it)

1 chili pepper or 1 tsp dry Cayenne pepper,

2 sprigs fresh rosemary or 2 tsp. dry seasonings,

5-6 fresh sage leaves or 0.5 teaspoon dry ground sage

1 tsp dried oregano,

1 gallon water, vegetable or chicken broth (can substitute part of the liquid milk or cream, recommend to use no more than 300 ml),

2 tbsp Apple cider vinegar

Oil for roasting vegetables (I had a mixture of ghee and olive oil),

Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Ingredients for the filing will describe below.

How to do it.

1. All vegetables to be washed. Onion cut into cubes, celery, garlic and chilli also finely chop. Pumpkin and carrots cleaned and cut into small random pieces.

2. Onions and celery saute in the pot for soup in the frying oil until Golden. Then add the chopped garlic and chili peppers, fry until fragrant about 30 seconds, then throw to the onion, the carrot, and after 5-7 minutes the pumpkin and fill it with some water/broth to the liquid closed vegetables. Simmer for 10-15 minutes until the vegetables are tender.

3. Once the vegetables are softened, add herbs (rosemary leaves, sage, oregano) and Apple cider vinegar, pushing the soup in a blender until smooth. Try, what happened, and salt/pepper to taste. If necessary, add more water/broth and spices. Once again whisk the soup, bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat.

4. I have another version of cooking the pumpkin with carrots: roasting. Pumpkin cut in half, to release the seeds, put on baking sheet cut down. Peel the carrot, cut into 2-3 pieces and put next to the pumpkin. Bake at 180-200C for about 30-40 minutes until soft. Allow the pumpkin to cool slightly, remove skins.

Then combine the fried onion, celery, Chile and garlic, roasted vegetables, all seasonings, punched in a blender, gradually adding water/broth, and finally add salt/pepper to taste. Once again whisk the soup, bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat.

Try to cook soup with different types of broths, with the addition of cream or milk to choose your perfect option. I make this soup often with vegetable broth or water and without the addition of cream.

5. Serve this soup I love in two versions:

Flow 1. With olive oil, balsamic, pumpkin seeds and croutons parmezanom.

For this flow you need unleavened whole wheat bread cut into pieces (1 piece per serving), put on top of each piece with 1 tbsp shredded cheese and bake in the oven until Golden.

Soup pour into a bowl, drizzle with olive cold-pressed oil (I like Greek) and balsamic, sprinkle a handful of roasted pumpkin seeds. For beauty can sprinkle the soup with some parsley. To eat, biting into the hot fragrant toast.

Flow 2. With melted Gorgonzola, pumpkin seeds and balsamic cream.

For this supply ladle hot soup into bowls, put in every 2-3 tbsp crumbled blue cheese, give him a little melted alone or in the convection oven/microwave. Then throw a handful of sunflower seeds, a bit of balsamic cream and enjoy!

And that I experimented and cooked this soup with white gourd Ficifolia.

The Gorgonzola you can substitute another blue cheese or goat cheese curd.

I want to draw your attention that each ingredient is very important, and in soup, and serve. For example, if you roast pumpkin seeds or use Parmesan and Gorgonzola, and other such cheeses, the taste will be less interesting. Of course be delicious, but not so elegant;)

Thick tomato soup with venison

Hearty, nourishing, fragrant and incredibly delicious! You can also cook this beef, it will be delicious.

Ingredients:

1 kg of venison on the bone (I had ribs),

2 liters of water,

3 onions,

1 carrot,

10 peppers and peas,

4 leaves of Laurel,

900ml tomato passata is crushed tomatoes in own juice,

70g tomato paste (optional)

3 tbsp Jerusalem artichoke syrup (optional)

3 cloves garlic,

Spices: 1 tsp each:

Oregano,

Basil,

Dried rosemary (you can substitute 2 sprigs fresh),

Powder dried garlic,

Smoked paprika,

Worcestershire sauce,

0,5 – 1 tsp Cayenne Chile pepper (you can substitute 1 fresh Chile pepper and add it to the onion sauté),

Salt/pepper to taste.

How to do:

1. Meat rinse, cover with cold water to the entire surface of the meat was closed (I needed 2 liters of water), add 1 onion, carrot, peppercorns and Bay leaf. Cook for 1.5-2.5 hours on a very low heat under the closed lid so that the broth has not boiled away. .Cooking time depends on the meat, it should be very tender and soft, and literally move away from the bone. If this did not happen – cook to such a state.

2. Once the meat reached the condition, remove it from the broth, allow to cool slightly and carefully disassemble the fibers, ejecting all hryaschik, bones and veins. The long fibers tear across the below piece was no longer than 3cm, otherwise it will be not very convenient to eat. Consider it your meditation;)

3. Tomato sauce. 2 onions cut into small dice, crush the garlic. In a deep frying pan saute the onion until Golden in the frying oil (I have ghee), add the garlic and fry for another 20 seconds, actively stirring, then add the passata, tomato paste and all the spices, except the salt and syrup. Salt and sugar are already ready soup not to miscalculate. Simmer the sauce for 5 minutes.

4. The sauce is ready add the meat, there strain the broth (spices, carrots, onions and Bay leave from the soup – kicks), mix, taste, add spices if necessary, and salt and sweetness (if tomatoes are sour). Just a couple of tablespoons of syrup will remove excessive acid. Bring to a boil, the soup is ready.

5. Feed. This soup with the correct flow is more fun and authentic. Recommend serve with sour cream and cranberry sauce (recipe here). You can also sprinkle the soup with chopped parsley and dill.

In General I recommend to try some soup in its pure form, then with cream, then with sour cream and cranberry sauce, then add the greens, and to identify their personal preferences.

By the way, the soup becomes every day more delicious;)