Name: Cream of Garlic Soup with Garlic Croutons
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 600 ml vegetable stock (or chicken stock if you prefer); Finely chopped fresh parsley, to garnish; 250 ml double cream; 100 g parmesan, grated; 1 tsp minced garlic; ¾ tsp salt, or to taste; ¾ tsp black pepper, or to taste; 2 banana shallots, finely diced; ¼ baguette (preferably stale); 2¼ tbsp olive oil; 4 bulbs of garlic

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
3 hr

Appears in

The Garlic Story: Nourish your body, delight your palate

By Kumud Gandhi

Published 2023

About

Garlic, garlic and more garlic: what could be more divine! My creamy garlic soup recipe calls for four bulbs of garlic – yes, that’s right, bulbs not cloves! – but stay with me a few moments longer and judge me not. While raw garlic is a powerful ingredient that can feel like a sharp elbow to the tastebuds, in this recipe I’m using roasted garlic which is an entirely different ball game. Once roasted, fresh garlic cloves take on a sweet, mellow, almost nutty flavour. These are the bedrock o