Ingredients:

  • 600 grams carrots
  • 100 grams ginger root
  • 300 grams spring onion
  • 160 grams butter
  • 4 teaspoons sugar
  • 200 milliliters orange juice
  • 600 milliliters heavy cream
  • 1200 milliliters water
  • 6 teaspoons vegetable or chicken broth
  • pepper
  • salt
  • chives (optional)

Directions:

  • Peel the carrots and ginger. Slice spring onions, carrots and ginger into bite size bits.
  • Place the butter in a large pot. Once the butter is soft, add the carrots, spring onions and ginger to the pot.
  • When it begins to sizzle, add the sugar and stir. Immediately add the orange juice, heavy cream, water and the vegetable / chicken broth.
  • Put a lid on the pot and let it cook on medium heat until the vegetables are soft (They’re soft when you can slice through a carrot with a wooden spoon or something similarly dull). Occasionally stir the contents and spice with salt and pepper.

Hint: Check on the simmering pot approximately every 5 to 10 minutes to avoid over boiling!

  • Once the vegetables are soft, remove the pot from the stove. Then puree the mix (Don’t puree the vegetables too small.)
  • Place a sieve/strainer over an empty pot that can fit your soup and pour the puree through. Every now and then remove the excess that will eventually plug up the sieve/strainer.
  • After all the fluids are drained you can top off your soup with some chopped up chives.

Hint: Usually people throw away the leftover mash. However we like to refrigerate the mash to enjoy another day with some gravy.

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