Spiced Carrot And Sweet Potato Soup With Almond And Ginger Matzo Recipes

Steps:

• Heat butter and bacon grease in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir carrots and onion in the melted butter-bacon grease mixture until onion is translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add 1/2 the thyme to carrot-onion mixture; cook and stir until thyme is fragrant, 10 to 15 seconds.
• Stir chicken stock, sweet potato, ginger paste, remaining thyme, salt, and pepper into carrot-onion mixture. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until sweet potato is soft and flavors of soup have blended, 15 to 20 minutes. Mix orange juice, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, and cinnamon into soup.
• Puree soup using a hand blender until smooth; mix in more chicken stock to reach desired consistency. Stir half-and-half into soup.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large saucepan or casserole pan.
• Fry the chopped raw vegetables gently on a medium heat for about 5 minutes until slightly softened.
• Sprinkle over the cumin, coriander and chilli powder and stir into the veg, cook gently for another minute.
• Pour in the vegetable stock.
• Bring up to the boil and then simmer for 20 minutes until the veg is tender.
• Use a stick blender in the pan to blend the soup or transfer to a food processor and blend to a smooth consistancy. You may need to add more boiled hot water at this point if too thick.
• Taste and season as required with salt and pepper.
• Serve with crusty bread and a twist of black pepper.

Steps:

• Heat the oil and butter over medium heat in a large soup pot. Add the almonds and stir until toasted, about 3 minutes. Transfer nuts with a slotted spoon to a small plate and reserve.
• Add the carrots, onion, salt, cumin, coriander, ginger, and pepper to the pot and cook, stirring occasionally until tender, about 10 minutes. Increase the heat to high and cook until the vegetables brown, about 4 minutes more.
• Add the water and chickpeas to the pot. Bring the soup to a simmer and cook until the beans are very tender, about 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, stir together the yogurt, cilantro, and lemon zest in a small bowl.
• Roughly chop the reserved almonds. Transfer half of the almonds and half of the soup to a blender. Pulse at first, and then puree, to make a smooth soup base. Return the pureed soup to the pot and heat. Stir in the yogurt mixture, divide among warmed bowls, and serve with the remaining chopped almonds sprinkled on top.

Steps:

• Place margarine in medium bowl.
• Blend almonds, salt, sugar, ginger and pepper in food processor until nuts are finely chopped; mix into margarine.
• Whisk in eggs and ginger ale; stir in matzo meal.
• Cover and chill 1 day.
• Bring large pot of salted water to boil; add fresh ginger.
• Drop batter onto sheet of foil in 16 equal mounds.
• Using wet hands, shape mounds into smooth balls and drop into boiling water.
• Cover pot tightly.
• Reduce heat to medium.
• Cook matzo balls until very tender throughout, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
• Using slotted spoon, transfer matzo balls in single layer to 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish.
• *Can be made 2 days ahead.
• Cover and refrigerate.
• Rewarm by steaming for 20 minutes on vegetable steamer rack over boiling water.

Steps:

• Melt margarine in heavy large pot over medium-high heat.
• Add carrots, onion and sweet potato.
• Saute until onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.
• Add 2 3/4 teaspoons cumin, paprika, cayenne and cinnamon; stir 1 minute.
• Add 8 cups broth and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer until carrots are very tender, about 30 minutes.
• Puree soup in small batches in blender until smooth.
• Return to same pot.
• Mix in remaining 1/2 teaspoon cumin.
• Thin soup with all or part of remaining 1 cup broth.
• Season soup to taste with salt and pepper.
• Refrigerate until cold; then cover and keep refrigerated at least 1 day and up to 3 days.
• Rewarm soup over medium heat and ladle into bowls; add matzo balls and sprinkle with cilantro.