Carrot & Coriander Soup
Another lovely recipe from Roly’s Café & Bakery Cookbook. This is the fifth recipe I’ve tried from this book and all results to date have gone into the ‘definitely repeat’ or ‘exceptional’ category.
After all my ranting about the amount of oil used in a number of previous recipes, here is one that calls for only one tablespoon of vegetable oil to be used to cook chopped celery (three sticks), one chopped onion and crushed garlic. Now this is sensible cooking, in my book, so to speak 
Ground coriander was added and cooked for two minutes. Cubed carrots, potatoes and chicken stock were then added and the pot simmered until the vegetables were soft.
An Aga is great for this type of cooking as it has a fast and a slow cooking plate and one can move a pot between the two to slow down or speed up cooking.
Then the blender.
Then cream and seasoning were added. Again the amount of cream in the recipe was only 50ml, which I felt was grand. I also added some milk (not in the recipe) as I felt the soup was a bit too thick.
Chopped coriander was stirred in and hungry people served.
Result, goes into the ‘definitely repeat’ camp.
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One of my great stand-by soups Lily, although, without the coriander, as it is one spice I really don’t like. I love the colour and flavour of this soup and I usually add some lentils to the mix too. Still lusting after your aga
I’ve never had it but it looks good! http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=Lxj4SIVqL24
Last link was dodgy. The soup brought this to mind http://url.ie/5dl3
The ground coriander in the first part being coriander seeds and the chopped coriander at the end being fresh green coriander leaves?
Marie, Tom Doorley just tweeted a link to an article showing Guardian doesn’t love the Aga. I’m smiling at it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/mar/15/aga-cooking
Simon, haha! funny video!
Ramana, Yes, I used ground coriander first and then fresh coriander.
love this soup and it is so simple.
Great pictures Lily -I make a lot of soups as i get a veg box in UL every tuesday -However i cant have dairy but i find if you just add one maybe 2 spuds its thickens the soup. My favourite soup has to be tomato with a good hint of spice!
Grannymar, yea simple and nice … nothing better
Wendy, thanks. I agree with you with thickening soups with potato, though I had mushroom soup out yesterday, and it really was potato soup with a hint of mushroom
Is there a market in UL on a Tuesday?
Yes there is a Market in UL every Tuesday (but it won’t be on next wk because rag week is on)-Its on in the the SU courtyard i get an organic veg and fruit box every week from these people http://www.bordbiavantage.ie/bordbia/preview.asp?pid=7&mid=88&cid=110&id=110&lvid=88
Its great and a challenge to use everything up so i make lots of soups!
Wendy, thanks a million for that and posting the link. I hadn’t know and it’s just beside our office.
I’ve just read the details of the organic fruit and veg box system and it sounds very good, particularly in light of a post I am just about to write.