It’s #soupseason and I’ve been making at least one every week.
#hottips for delicious #soup
1-chop everything small enough so there is room for variety on the spoon.
2-season with salt and roast as much of the ingredients as you can. The more golden colours the better.
3-When adjusting for flavour towards the end, notice if there is an equal balance of salt/sugar/acid. If not, great additions include: tablespoon of honey(sugar), tablespoon of miso paste(salt), a gloop of pickle juice(acid)
How I made this weeks soup
It all started a couple dinners ago. Lieneke gave me one of her chickens, so I simmered it low and slow in a coconut milk/stock/korma sauce. Pat brought home some chutneys and naan from one of the Indian food restaurants in town, and I served it with long grain basmati rice.
Leftover from this dinner was a lot of meat left on the carcass, and a ton of flavourful bits of vegetables and korma sauce still heavy in the pan.
The perfect beginnings of a soup.
In preparation for the task, I filled the rest of the pan with water, covered it, and put the whole roasting pan in the fridge.
Two days later, I dumped it all into a giant pot. Little bit by little bit I picked out the bones and set aside any meat. The bones all went on a cookie sheet, where I generously salted them, then put them under the broiler. I stirred them up once or twice, trying to get as much browning (sugar!) as possible. When the bones were done, I put them back into the soup pot, added a can of coconut milk, topped up the water level to maximum capacity, then simmered it for 5 hours.
Within that 5 hours, I assembled the ingredients I would need to finish the soup. I chopped small pieces of carrot, onion, and bell peppers, tossed in olive oil and salt, then roasted on cookie sheet in the oven to golden brown. I let the simmering stock cook through two ears of corn, then I let them cool before shaving off the kernels.
When it came time to put the soup together, I strained the broth into another soup pot, then began adding the finishing ingredients.
-leftover rice and korma sauce
-leftover tomato sauce
-leftover tomato paste
-pieces of salvaged meat (chopped smaller)
-corn kernels
-can of black beans
-roasted vegetables
-honey
-pickle juice
I let all of the flavours come together for half an hour longer before serving.
Tres magnifique