Chestnut, Carrot & Thyme

Name: Chestnut, Carrot & Thyme
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped; 2 stock cubes; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 carrots, peeled and roughly chopped; a thyme sprig, leaves only; 200 g ready cooked chestnuts, roughly chopped; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 stick celery, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

We tend to put this soup out at Christmas time as it works really well as a starter on the big day. It is luxurious enough but not overwhelmingly spicy or too filling. Try changing the flavours a bit by switching the carrots with parsnips and swapping the thyme with sage or rosemary.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped
2

Starter
Spicy
Winter
December
Soup
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Heat a pot on a medium-low heat and add the oil or butter. Fry the onion, garlic, celery, chestnuts and carrots for 10 minutes.

Sprinkle in the thyme leaves and continue to fry for another minute or so.

Add a litre of boiling water and the crumbled stock cubes, and then bring to the boil. Turn down the heat and simmer for 20 minutes.

Blend the soup until perfectly smooth