Irish Creamy Vegetable Soup Recipes

CREAMY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven or soup kettle over medium-low heat, saute carrots, onion, celery, potatoes, garlic and sugar in oil for 5 minutes. Add broth, nutmeg and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30-40 minutes or until vegetables are tender. , Remove from the heat and cool to room temperature. Puree in batches in a blender or food processor. Return to the kettle and heat through.

BASIC CREAM OF VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add the chopped onion and cook until tender without browning. Stir in diced potato and liquid. Bring to a boil and simmer until potato is tender. Stir in your steamed vegetable of choice and return to a simmer. Puree the soup in batches in a blender and return to saucepan. Leave 1 cup of vegetables not pureed if a chunkier soup is preferred. Season soup with salt and pepper and finish with heavy cream. Serve warm with French bread and a salad.

CREAMY IRISH POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the butter in a 3-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add onions and celery and cook until tender.
• Stir the broth, 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper and potatoes in the saucepan and heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 15 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.
• Place half of the broth mixture and half of the milk in a blender or food processor. Cover and blend until smooth. Repeat with the remaining broth mixture and remaining milk. Return to the saucepan and heat through.

IRISH ROOT SOUP

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large stockpot over medium heat; cook and stir the onion, leeks, garlic, and celery in the melted butter until tender, about 10 minutes.
• Pour 4 cups vegetable stock into the stockpot; add the potatoes. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook the mixture at a simmer 20 minutes.
• Divide the stock mixture into 3 batches with equal amounts of liquid and vegetables; set aside to cool for 30 minutes.
• Pour 1 batch of the stock mixture into a blender, filling the pitcher no more than halfway. Hold the blender lid firmly in place and carefully start the blender; use a few quick pulses to get the mixture moving before leaving it on to puree. Repeat process with second batch. Return the pureed batches to the stockpot.
• Divide third batch into two equal batches. Puree only one of the two batches before returning both to the stockpot.
• Bring 1 cup vegetable stock to a simmer in a small pot over medium-low heat. Cook the carrots in the simmering stock until soft, 5 to 7 minutes; add to the puree in the stockpot.
• Stir the green onion and heavy cream through the puree; continue cooking another 5 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper; top with Cheddar cheese to serve.

CREAMY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a slow cooker stir together the onion, butter or margarine, sweet potatoes, zucchini and broccoli. Pour in the chicken broth and stir. Add the potatoes, celery seed, salt and ground cumin and stir.
• Cover and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours. Add the milk and cook for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Serve.

EASY, CREAMY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Simmer onion, carrot and celery in water for 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender. In a blender or food processor; puree all vegetables. Add salt, pepper, chicken broth and cream. Heat before serving, but do not boil.

SPICY AND CREAMY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion, carrot, and celery until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, bay leaves, parsley, thyme, rosemary, and dill weed; cook until garlic is fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Pour water into onion mixture and bring to a boil. Stir chicken base into the boiling water until dissolved, 1 to 2 minutes. Add tomatoes with green chiles, potatoes, and green beans; bring soup to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir mushrooms until golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes. Add browned mushrooms to the soup. Stir heavy cream and kale into soup; cook until kale is tender and soup is heated through, about 5 minutes.

SIMPLE IRISH VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Place carrots, leek, parsley, celery and soup mix (optional) in stock or soup pot.
• Cover with cold water just so all veg are floating.
• Bring to boil, and add stock cubes, and spices.
• Simmer until vegetables are very soft.
• Taste and season, adjust flavour as per your taste.
• If adding pasta, do this now and boil until pasta is well cooked.
• Serve with potatoes in warm bowls.
• Whole boiled potatoes are traditionally placed in soup at time of serving.