After my first experiment with a green smoothie, I thought I would try my hand at making a supergreens soup. All the goodness of a green smoothie but in soup form. What turns a green smoothie into a soup? Heat. That is where my Froothie comes into it’s own. Hot soup blended to perfection within five minutes.
The only thing I would recommend you do is to pre-blanch the green vegetables before blitzing to soup perfection. Having tried to make soups in my Froothie several times before, I have found that pre-cooking/blanching the chosen vegetables makes for a better soup.
Without the pre-blanch I find the flavours taste raw-even when blended for several minutes-particularly when it comes to garlic, onions and spring onions to a lesser degree. There could not be a soup with more green goodness than this supergreens soup. I found the peas and the mint provided a sweetness to the soup which off sets the mineral sharpness of the kale and it produces a soup of the darkest emerald green you can imagine.
If you are a fan of green smoothies then this could be the soup of choice for you. Enjoy!
Here are a few more green soups for you from around the web:
Creamy kale soup – Food to glow
Broccoli & Stilton soup & Creamy asparagus soup – Greedy Gourmet
Green power soup – Coconut & Berries
Colombian cream of avocado soup – Food to glow
5 minute green smoothie soup – Tinned Tomatoes
Courgette & blue cheese soup – Kavey Eats
I am linking up to:
No Croutons Required – Tinned Tomatoes & Lisa’s Kitchen
Extra Veg – Kerry Cooks, Fuss Free Flavours & Utterly Scrummy
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Supergreens Soup
Ingredients
- 1 head Broccoli cut into florets and the stalk peeled and chopped roughly
- 200 g Frozen peas
- 100 g Kale washed and de-stalked
- 1 bunch Spring onions washed and trimmed then cut in half,
- 1 large Courgette sliced into discs
- 1 pint Vegetable stock
- 1 bunch Fresh mint leaves only
- Salt & black pepper
Instructions
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Place the broccoli and peas into a pan of boiling water, bring the pan back to the boil, cook the veg for 2 minutes then turn off the heat and scoop out the veg. Measure 1 pint of the cooking liquid and add 1tbsp of vegetable bouillon to it to make up the required veg stock for this recipe,
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In another pan of boiling water place the courgettes, spring onions and kale. When the pan comes back up to the boil turn it off immediately and drain the vegetables, you don't need to keep this veg water,
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Place the broccoli and pea mixture into your Froothie and blend with 1/4 pint of the stock and half of the mint leaves plus a little salt then return the mixture to the saucepan,
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Next place the kale, spring onions and courgette into the Froothie along with 1/4 pint of vegetable stock and the rest of the mint, blend well then transfer to the pan with the blended broccoli and peas and stir the two mixtures together,
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Check for seasoning and use the rest of the stock to make the soup to the consistency you would like. I used almost all of the pint of vegetable stock.
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Pour the soup into bowls and enjoy.
Lovely ‘very-veggie’ soup, Laura. And so simple too. Not only delicious, but quick and nutritious too. Thanks for linking to two of my recipes.
You always have so many great soups to share Kellie
Lovely colour. We didn’t pre-cook vegetables when we did the courgette blue cheese soup or a tomato and stock one either, but those are both vegetables that work well with less cooking, so just heating them up as they whizzed made for very fresh tasting soups. Whereas for butternut squash one, we cooked the squash before adding it to the Froothie, as we didn’t think it would cook enough in the time. Such a nice way of making soups, isn’t it?
Love it for soups Kavey, there is no better or easier way to blend than a Froothie!
This is my kind of soup – and I can imagine those peas giving it a nice sweet creaminess. It also helps that I’m a sucker for broccoli and kale. And you can’t just can’t beat the colour!
Yes Monica it is the colour that I love most!
I love this soup and I love the pictures as green is my favourite colour:-) Thank you for linking to my Courgette Soup:-)
I love it too Camilla
Wow, that is green! But looks delicious anyway 🙂
What a fantastic colour! And a great way to use up all those veg.
Thanks Caroline, colour says so much!
Delicious recipe, that’s just staggeringly green! Will try it for sure, but maybe with a cheaper blender, haha 🙂
Sure why not Joanne, actaully soups should all be this green. It is just the colour that occurs when soups are not over cooked!
Lovely soup Laura, I think with these blender soups it is a fine line with the pre cooking. I have a tub of fried onion in the freezer to add to them as I find it too strong otherwise.
Thanks for sending to Extra Veg
oooh this looks delicious and full of goodness too. love the idea of the mint here too.
Thanks Nazima, I agree it is the mint that really makes it 🙂
This soup looks so gorgeous and fresh Laura 😀 I love using my Froothie to make soups. So quick and easy!
Hi Nadia, I love it too!
What an amazingly vibrant colour – you just know this soup is going to do you so much good from the inside out. Thanks for linking up with #TheSpiceTrail temple food challenge 🙂
Love the vibrant green colour of this soup Laura and the peas and mint would have made this taste delicious too. I’ve made a green smoothie, but not yet tried to make a soup.
I am sure you will love the soups made in your Froothie Choclette, they are super smooth!
Fantastic colour and sounds delicious. Definitely one I’ll be trying. Pinned!
Thanks Emily!