Carrot soup with camembert cheese
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 small leek
- 500 g carrots
- 250 g potatoes
- 800 ml vegetable or poultry broth
- 150 g camembert or brie cheese
- 80 ml heavy cream 30%*
Preparation
- Put a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of olive oil in a pot, add diced onion and stirring occasionally fry on low heat for about 2 minutes.
- Now gradually add the rest of the vegetables, stirring occasionally and frying everything for a total of about 10 minutes.
- First add garlic cut into slices and after a moment cleaned and cut into slices leek.
- Then peeled and cut into thin slices carrot and peeled and diced potatoes. In the meantime season the vegetables with salt and pepper.
- Pour hot broth and bring to boil, cover with a lid and cook for about 15 minutes until vegetables are tender.
- Add cheese cut into pieces and blend the soup into cream, preferably in a standing blender beaker. At the end of blending add sour cream.
Tips
Serving suggestion
e.g. dollop of sour cream / basil leaves / chili flakes
Tips
* can be omitted in this recipe (then we add more broth of about 1/2 cup)