Today’s Clean Eat – Carrot and Ginger Soup with Lemon Cream

Another clean, lean and mean winter soup for you…

This Carrot and Ginger Soup with Lemon Cream is a light and low calorie dish full of nutrients to warm the belly while the Wintery months prevail.

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

• 700g carrots, chopped
• 2 medium onions, peeled and roughly chopped
• 1 clove garlic, peeld and crushed
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 ginger stem
• 1 tsp medium curry powder
• 3 pints chicken or vegetable stock
• Sea salt and black pepper
• Rind of 1 lemon, finely shredded

Lemon Cream

• 200g half fat creme fraiche
• Grated rind of 1 lemon
• 2 tsp fresh parsley, chopped
• 2 tsp chives, chopped

1. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and add the onions and carrots, cook for several minutes, stirring from time to time. Do not brown the vegetables.

• Then add the garlic, ginger and curry powder and cook for a further minute.
• Add the stock and lemon strips to the pan, half cover the pan with its lid, and simmer gently for 20 minutes until the carrots are tender.
• Cool slightly, then liquidize the soup until smooth.

• Taste and season with sea salt and black pepper.
• Reheat to serve.
• To make the cream, stir all the ingredients together gently, or the crème fraiche will go runny, and then spoon a dollop into the middle of each bowl of soup, garnish with chives or parsley if you wish.

• Serve with wholemeal crusty bread.

Enjoy clean living and healthy eating…x