16 Feb 2012

Broccoli, Potato and Onion Soup



I can't stop making soup!

This one was invented the last time I went to my dad's, in Brazil, last Christmas.
I was talking to him on the phone the other day and he told me he really liked it... I had to ask him what I put in it when I made if for him, and I decided to try it again with English ingredients.
It is quite good, but I have to say that the broccoli I had in Brazil works better in this recipe. It is a different broccoli, it looks more like cow's food than the very pretty broccoli I normally find here, the one that looks like a wedding bouquet.

Anyway. It was still quite delicious and we had the whole thing very quickly, so I think you might want to try and make it yourself :)

Ingredients:

1 onion
1 wedding bouquet, oops, one broccoli
3 medium sized potatoes
Salt

How to make it:

Chop everything, sauté de onions in a little bit of olive oil, throw in all the rest, add water, close it and cook for about 20 minutes - the first 10 in high and then in medium.
Blend it and serve it with parmesan, if you are so inclined.

Servings: 4
Calories: 159 per serving

12 Feb 2012

Vegetable Soup



It has been very cold for the past three weeks and one of my favourite things for this weather is to have soup. I make a different one every night, depending on what I have in my fridge. It is healthy, it warms you and it is very easy to make.

I make my soup the way mom taught me: chop everything, chuck it in the pressure cooker with vegetable stock and then blend it enough to look like baby food, just the way I like it.

Here is today's recipe:

Ingredients

1 onion
2 carrots
2 small potatoes
1 parsnip
1 leek
1 vegetable stock cube

Chop the onion and sauté it with a little bit of olive oil, in the pressure cooker or whichever cooker you have.
Chop all the other ingredients and add them to the cooker, together with the vegetable stock and salt and leave it to cook for about 20 minutes.

Carefully open the pressure cooker (never forget to let the pressure out before trying to open it) and blend it. If you have some leftover pasta (no sauce) or rice, put it in and blend it too, so as not to waste food and make it more filling :) I added white rice to this one, you can see it if you look carefully at the picture. Go ahead, look!


Serve it with grated parmesan or basil leaves (these were added to make the picture look nice :D)


Calories (4 servings): 321 per serving