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🍲 Spiced root soup 💲

🍲 Spiced root soup 💲

When you have a fridge full of vegetables, this is the soup for you.

Sean Barrett
April 19, 2024

Hey Soup Enthusiast,

When you have a fridge full of vegetables, what soup would you make?

Today’s soup is just that.

A healthy, vegan recipe, perfect for using up the vegetables you have left in the fridge.

Before we dive in.

Chloe, has now swam over the 5 mile mark and well on her way!

Follow Chloe’s heroic journey between 22nd March and 22nd June 2024 to swim 22 miles and participate in the Swim22 for diabetes.

“People I know personally live with it or have lived with it everyday and I couldn't be prouder to support them in this way!”

Chloe

🍲 Spiced root soup

A healthy vegan soup packed with root vegetables that has a nice thick consistency and a tasty spice mix to give it an extra kick.

A perfect low cost soup for using up what’s left in the fridge.

Spiced root soup with bread in the background.

Spiced root soup is packed full of root vegetables which is very healthy but, can take a while to prepare.

The preparation took up most of my time but, after the vegetables had been chopped, the soup was pretty much done.

The spice mix was my favorite part about creating and tasting this soup. You can use any curry powder or paste you like or create your own spice mix which is what I usually like to do.

For this soup I decided to use curry powder we had left over.

But, I couldn't help myself. I added a little paprika and crushed chillies to control the level of spice and add flavor.

I think spiced root soup is a winter warmer which is great for warming up on a cold day.

Overall it is a great way to use up the vegetables left in the fridge and experiment with spices.

Now lets take a look at the recipe.

Check out the video!

If you enjoyed this soup as much as me, let me know. Rate my recipe!

🌱 Ingredient of the week: Leeks

Fact - Leeks are high in fiber and low in calories. Some people believe in a "leek soup diet" for weight loss.

Cooking tip - Pick leeks that are firm, dark green and look healthy from the root to the tip. There should be no yellowing or brown spots and avoid leeks that are soft or mushy.

🌍 Beyond the ladle: Soup news highlights

Our first news stories

I plan on bringing news from outside soup and sauce to the newsletter.

Personally I would preferer news centers around new soups added to restaurant menus and local places you can visit to taste soups and sauces.

I currently do not know how to do this well so I will stick to stories I can find easier for now.

Gordon Ramsay's £13 Million London pub unwillingly transformed into a soup kitchen for the homeless.

A group gained access to Gordon Ramsay’s, York & Albany pub which was for sale at a guide price of £13 million. They barricaded themselves in and despite Gordon's efforts, the Police wouldn’t intervene, calling it a "civil matter”.

The group who were living in the building, recently received legal documents forcing them to “cancel“ the soup kitchen they ran for the homeless, where they cooked free soup and coffee aiming to make a difference to the community.

A soup designed to protect endangered turtles

Turtle soup is a delicacy and consumed in some countries even though green-sea turtles are a protected species and are declining in population.

NotCo, a plant based food development company took on the challenge to create a turtle-free, turtle soup to prevent the decline in turtle population.

Using their own AI, specialised in plant based substitutes, they trained it about turtle meat. The AI then used this information to match possible plant based substitutes and came up with 8 different recipes.

After going back and for the with the AI and trying it’s suggestions, NotCo were satisfied with the recipe.

They took the turtle free, turtle soup to Peru where turtle soup was locally eaten and conducted a taste test with locals.

The feedback was positive and they are now on mission to share their turtle-free soup recipe to protect the turtles.

Do you have a story about soup?

What do you think, would you like this type of news or to just receve news centers around restaurants and cafes you can visit?

If you have soup news, whether it's a new soup recipe added to a restaurant you love, or an innovative soup-making technique you have discovered, feel free to share send it in to be featured on the newsletter!

Improved photography 📷

I was playing around with the light levels when taking photos and by using a piece of paper to reflect the light back into the camera lens seemed to make the photo better.

I am still planning on testing lighting using tissues, so hopefully by next weeks email we should have the answer to whether I should use tissues intron of the light, paper behind the light or both.

General improvements

You may not see much difference yet but we need to add the ingredients before stirring the pot. If you have any suggestions, I would be delighted to hear them. 👍