Roast Vegetable Soup Recipe Nigella

ROASTED VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat 3 cups of chicken stock. Coarsely puree the Roasted Winter Vegetables and the chicken stock in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade (or use a handheld blender). Pour the soup back into the pot and season, to taste. Thin with more chicken stock and reheat. The soup should be thick but not like a vegetable puree, so add more chicken stock and/or water until it's the consistency you like.
• Serve with Brioche Croutons and a drizzle of good olive oil.
• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• Cut the carrots, parsnips, sweet potato, and butternut squash in 1 to 1 1/4-inch cubes. All the vegetables will shrink while baking, so don't cut them too small.
• Place all the cut vegetables in a single layer on 2 sheet pans. Drizzle them with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Toss well. Bake for 25 to 35 minutes, until all the vegetables are tender, turning once with a metal spatula.
• Sprinkle with parsley, season to taste, and serve hot.
• Slice the bread about 3/4-inch thick. Cut off the crusts and then cut the slices in 3/4-inch dice. You should have 3 to 4 cups of croutons.
• Place the croutons on a sheet pan and toss them with the olive oil, salt, and pepper. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, tossing once, until they're nicely browned on all sides. Cool to room temperature before using and store in a sealed plastic bag.

ROASTED VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 475 degrees F.
• Add the zucchini, yellow squash, onion and bell peppers to a large mixing bowl and toss with the olive oil, oregano, thyme, salt, pepper and garlic until coated. Divide the vegetables between 2 baking sheets and arrange them in a single layer. Roast, turning the vegetables halfway through, until they start to deepen in color and are slightly tender, about 10 minutes.
• Add the roasted vegetables to the bowl of a slow cooker along with the stock, stewed tomatoes, cream and bay leaf. Set the slow cooker to low and cook for 3 hours.
• Remove the bay leaf, add the lemon juice and, using an immersion blender, pulse to blend the soup until you achieve a smooth and rustic texture. Stir, taste and adjust the seasoning as needed.
• Serve in a bowl garnished with the chopped parsley. If freezing, cool the mixture completely, then transfer to freezer-safe bags, seal and place in freezer.

ROASTED WINTER VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• With a mortar and pestle, grind together rosemary and kosher salt. Pour in olive oil and continue to mash until the oil starts to turn a darker green. Set aside for about an hour.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Coat a shallow roasting pan with cooking spray.
• Place the squash, rutabagas, parsnips and potatoes in a large bowl. Pour the olive oil mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into the bowl. Toss vegetables with oil to coat.
• Evenly spread vegetables on the prepared pan. Roast 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until nicely browned and cooked through. You may need to remove some of the smaller pieces from the oven before all of the vegetables are cooked to avoid burning them.
• While the vegetables are roasting, simmer chicken stock in a large pot over medium low heat. When the vegetables are done add them to the simmering chicken stock and simmer together for about 10 minutes.
• Use an immersion blender to puree the soup in the pot, or puree in batches in a blender or food processor. Add extra broth or water if the soup is too thick. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve in warmed bowls, garnishing each serving by drizzling a quarter teaspoon of balsamic vinegar and a quarter teaspoon of white truffle oil over the soup.

ROASTED VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Line two 15x10x1-in. baking pans with foil; coat the foil with cooking spray. Place eggplant, zucchini, peppers, mushrooms, potatoes and leek on pans; generously coat with cooking spray. Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 25-30 minutes or until tender. , In a Dutch oven coated with cooking spray, saute garlic for 2 minutes. Add broth, beans, peas, vinegar, seasonings and roasted vegetables. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes or until heated through.

LENTIL SOUP WITH ROASTED VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F. Arrange first 5 ingredients on large nonstick baking sheet. Drizzle with oil. Roast vegetables 20 minutes. Turn vegetables over and roast until tender and brown around edges, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes longer. Cool slightly (do not clean baking sheet).
• Scoop eggplant pulp from peel into processor; discard peel. Add onion and garlic to processor; purée until smooth. Transfer eggplant mixture to large saucepan. Coarsely chop tomatoes and bell pepper; combine in small bowl.
• Add 1 cup water to baking sheet; stir to scrape up any browned bits. Add to saucepan with eggplant mixture. Add 4 cups water, lentils and cumin and bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until lentils are almost tender, about 30 minutes. Mix in all but 1/4 cup tomato and bell pepper mixture. Simmer uncovered until lentils are very tender, thinning with more water if soup is too thick, about 10 minutes longer. Season with salt and pepper.
• Ladle soup into bowls. Drizzle large spoonful of yogurt over each. Top with remaining 1/4 cup tomato and bell pepper mixture and serve.

OVEN ROASTED VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Spray a baking pan with cooking spray.
• Mix olive oil and onion soup mix together in a bowl. Combine potatoes, baby carrots, bell peppers, and onion in a large bowl; add oil mixture and mix until evenly coated.
• Roast in the preheated oven until vegetables are tender, 15 to 30 minutes.

ROASTED VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200C/400F
• Place the chunks of sweet potato, red and yellow bell peppers, carrots and garlic cloves (skin on) on a large baking tray.
• Drizzle on the olive oil and sprinkle on the salt, pepper, cumin and paprika. Toss it all together using your hands.
• Place in the oven for 20 minutes, turning everything over after 10 minutes.
• After the 20 minutes, add the red onion wedges and toss everything together again so the onion also gets coated in oil.
• Place back into the oven for a further 10-12 minutes until the vegetables are tender and slightly caramelized. Remove from the oven.
• Put a couple of tablespoons of the roasted vegetables to one side and place the rest in a large saucepan. Squeeze the garlic out of their skins into the pan too.
• Pour in the stock. Bring to the boil and simmer for five minutes. Turn off the heat and then blend with a hand blender.
• Stir in the parmesan and season to taste.
• Serve topped with the reserved roasted vegetables, a sprinkling of grated parmesan and a few sprigs of fresh thyme.

ROASTED VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Put the squash and sweet potato in a roasting tray with olive oil and seasoning (garlic, chilli, curry, salt, pepper) , put in the pre heated oven at 180 for 20-25 mins or until lightly browned
• Lightly fry the onions in butter, if you want you can add seasoning to the onions and remove from heat. Have the stock ready.
• When the sweet potato and squash is ready take out of oven and leave to cool slightly.
• After about 5 minutes put the roasted vegetables in the pot with the onions and resume cooking.
• Add the stock and simmer for 15 minutes (or until the vegetables are soft enough to blend).
• Allow to cool for 5 minutes and blend until smooth.
• Optional: When serving add a spoonful of natural yogurt

SPICED LENTIL AND ROASTED VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Cut tomatoes in half, peel and halve onions, halve peppers and deseed and take off stalk.
• Place above into roasting tray and place slices of garlic onto each piece of vegetable, sprinkle with olive and salt.
• Roast in medium oven for 30 - 40 mins until vegetables are slightly browned and tomatoes are very soft.
• Meanwhile sweat diced onion and celery in butter in a heavy pan for 5 minutes.
• Add nigella seeds, chilli pepper and cardamon, stir well and add chicken stock, then add lentils.
• Bring to a boil and then simmer, covered.
• When roasted vegetables are ready add contents of the roasting pan with juices to the soup pan and stir well.
• Simmer for 20 mins then season to taste with fresh black pepper and salt.
• Blend with a stick blender or in a processor, soup should retain a rough consistency but not big lumps.Add more water if necessary and reheat.
• Serve with a drizzle of good olive oil on top.

NIGELLA LAWSON ROASTED VEGETABLES WITH CHEESE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Peel and cut the sweet potato into 2 inch cubes and put it in the pan. (Add each ingredient to the pan as you go.).
• Cut the red potato(es) into slightly smaller cubes 1-1/2 cubes (because they are denser than the sweet potato so they need to be smaller to cook in the same amount of time).
• Cut the red onion in the middle, then cut each half into 4-6 segments, discarding the dry outer skin. (the onion should still stay together in large chunks and will still have the end bit on).
• Cut peppers into 1 inch chunks (discard seeds and stem).
• Separate the cloves of garlic but no need to remove the skin.
• Add the oil and mix everything together with your hands (it's fun).
• Season with pepper, but no salt (it will make the dish watery).
• Cook for 45-55 minutes until vegetables are cooked through and the tinged with brown.
• Top with cheese and broil 5 minutes or so until brown.
• (If you want to omit the cheese, you can add a bit of coarse salt before serving.).
• Serve it right out of the pan at the table. Couldn't be easier or more delicious!