Green Apple Soup Recipes

CURRIED APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add shallots; cook until soft and translucent, about 2 minutes. Add ginger and curry powder; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add apples, potato, salt, and chicken stock. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, and cook until potato is tender when pierced with a paring knife, about 12 minutes. Remove from heat, and let cool slightly.
• Use an immersion blender, or transfer mixture to the jar of a blender, working in batches if necessary so as not to fill more than halfway; puree just until smooth (do not overprocess). Return soup to pan; stir in cream, and season with salt and pepper. Place over medium heat until soup is just heated through; do not let it boil. Divide soup among serving bowls, and garnish with sour cream.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND GREEN APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a large thick-bottomed pot on medium-high heat. Melt the butter in the pot and let it foam up and recede. Add the onion, carrot, and celery and sauté for 5 minutes. Lower the heat if the vegetables begin to brown.
• 2 Add the butternut squash, apple, broth and water. Bring to boil. Reduce to a simmer, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes or so, until the squash and carrots have softened.
• 3 Use an immersion blender to purée the soup, or work in batches and purée the soup in a standing blender.
• 4 Add pinches of nutmeg, cinnamon, and cayenne. Add salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with chopped fresh parsley or chives.
• recipe originally found on simply recipes (butternut squash apple soup).

CELERY, CARROT AND GREEN APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil over medium heat in large sauce pan. Add carrot, celery, and onion, allowing to cook 2 minutes.
• Add butter and stir to melt.
• Add stock and cook for 10 minutes.
• Add apple, tomato paste, bay leaf and brown sugar. Cook for 2 minutes longer. Remove bay leaf.
• Transfer soup to blender or use an immersion blender, blend until smooth. Strain soup through fine sieve, keeping liquid and discarding any solids.
• Season with salt and pepper and serve hot.

COLD GREEN APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Spread filo dough with 1 teaspoon cream, fold and spread with remaining cream. Cut into 4 wide strips.
• Mix 1 teaspoon of sugar with the cinnamon and sprinkle over the dough. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Bake the dough according to package instructions in a preheated oven at 350°F until crisp. Place the filo strips on a wire rack to cool.
• Meanwhile, place 2 tablespoons sugar with apple juice, 1/3 cup of water and agar in a small pot and bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
• Fill a bowl with cold water and some ice cubes. Set the pot in the ice water and stir with a whisk.
• Chop the walnuts coarsely and toast in a skillet. Add remaining sugar and allow to melt until golden brown (caramelized).
• Spread the brittle on a piece of parchment paper to cool and then break into chunks.
• Rinse lemon in hot water, wipe dry, cut in half and squeeze out the juice. Peel 1 half of the lemon with a potato peeler and cut peel into thin strips (julienne).
• Rinse apples, quarter, core and dice. Mix immediately in a bowl with the lemon juice.
• Puree apple pieces with an immersion blender and stir into the cold mixture.
• Gently shake the flowers (to remove any insects), but do not rinse.
• Add cold cider or sparkling water to soup, mix and distribute soup between 4 deep bowls. Garnish with julienned lemon and flowers. Serve with the brittle and filo crisps.

BANANA SQUASH SOUP WITH SWEET POTATO AND GREEN APPLE

Steps:

• Heat coconut oil and butter together in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil-butter mixture until slightly softened, 1 to 2 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.
• Stir squash, sweet potatoes, and apple into the onion mixture and cook until heated through, about 5 minutes. Pour in chicken broth and bring to a boil; add basil, curry powder, and bay leaf. Reduce heat and simmer until sweet potatoes and apple are softened, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper.
• Puree soup in the pot with a hand blender until smooth.

CELERY ROOT AND APPLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in heavy large pot over medium heat. Add celery root, apples, and onion. Cook until apples and some of celery root are translucent (do not brown), stirring often, about 15 minutes. Add 4 cups broth. Cover and bring to simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer covered until celery root and apples are soft, stirring occasionally, about 25 minutes. Remove from heat; cool slightly.
• Working in batches, puree soup in blender until smooth, adding more broth by 1/4 cupfuls to thin to desired consistency. Return soup to pot. Season to taste with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Refrigerate uncovered until cold, then cover and keep refrigerated.
• Puree chives, grapeseed oil, and pinch of salt in blender until smooth.
• Preheat oven to 375°F. Arrange pancetta slices in single layer on rimmed baking sheet. Roast until pancetta is browned and crispy, about 18 minutes. Transfer to paper towels to drain. Crumble pancetta. DO AHEAD: Chive oil and pancetta can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
• Rewarm soup over medium heat. Divide soup among bowls. Sprinkle pancetta crumbles over each serving. Drizzle each bowl with chive oil.

GREEN APPLE PUCKER SOUP

Steps:

• In a large soup pot melt butter, add shallots, garlic, cabbage, ginger, winter savory, lemon thyme and apples. Season with salt, white pepper and saute 4-5 minutes or until cabbage is tender.
• Add 1/4 cup Apple Pucker and reduce by half.
• Add vegetable stock,chicken stock and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer for 20-minutes covered. Add Apple Pucker and simmer for 5- minutes.
• Remove from heat, discard bay leaves, reseason with salt and white pepper to taste. Serve soup in warm bowls.
• Garnish: Diced Granny Smith Apples.

GREEN APPLE AND WHITE BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Cover beans with water and soak them overnight.
• Combine drained beans, stock, garlic, onion, celery and 3/4 lb. of the bacon in a large heavy-bottomed stock pot. Bring to a boil.
• Reduce to a simmer and cook until beans are soft. Stir in apple pieces.
• Transfer to blender and puree. Please use caution when pureeing hot things as the expansion of steam can create nasty burns. No matter how tempting, only fill your blender half way with the hot bean mixture.
• Return to a clean, heavy pot and add cream, brown sugar, poblanos, lime juice and seasonings.
• Cook remaining 1/4 lb. bacon in skillet until crisp. Drain and dice in 1/4 inch pieces.
• Bring soup to a simmer and serve hot, topped with bacon pieces and green apple juliennes.