Gingered Carrot Soup

I did not know one could make carrot soup, I mean: carrot soup/food for babies, okay, but for adults???

Well it turns out you can and it is actually amazing. I found these recipes that are pretty simple and pretty mind blowing with very few ingredients.

INGREDIENTS:

-10 medium carrots.

-1/2 onion.

-2 cloves of garlic. 

-3 slices of 1 cm sliced ginger.

-1 tablespoon of brown sugar.

-1/2 chicken stock cube.

-one litre of water.

-olive oil, salt and pepper.

STEPS:

1. Peel the carrots, cut in half and place in foil paper and place in oven for an hour at 200 degrees top and bottom. Drizzle them with olive oil and salt. Include the garlic cloves in the oven.

2. Roast them until they are tender and brown or charred. The sugars come out and caramelize. 

3. Now prepare in a pot the onion and ginger. Dice onion and ginger and cook for 5-10 minutes until it is all soft.

4. Now add the carrots and garlic cloves, that are mushy at this point. Of course take the tops of the carrots off and the skin of garlic cloves.

5. Now add a litre of water and a cup and the chicken stock cube. I added half but I am sure you can do a whole one.

6. Bring it to a boil and puree. It is soooooo good. It is a great flavour of ginger, carrots, the charred ingredients, a little garlicky...you can add a tablespoon of sugar and also a tiny bit of cream.

So so good. I mean roasting carrots it's not the most simple method I understand, but it is worth the effort. The main actor of this soup is the ginger with the carrots, not the garlic, therefore you need to add more ginger than garlic!