Creamy Carrot Soup

I love all soups.  This Creamy Carrot Soup is hearty and healthy.  You can add other ingredients to it and make it a complete meal.  Growing up Italian, we didn’t eat cream soups, but I discovered their velvety texture at local restaurants. Prepare cream soups by using cream or milk and their are a variety of ones to choose from.  They have a thick texture for an added level of flavour.  A roux sometimes used as a thickening agent may enhance their texture.

Today I am serving this soup with my double grilled cheese sandwiches.  The secret to these sandwiches is toasting both sides. These thick soups are great for dunking and I love dunking my sandwich into this. I find  this lunch comforting and filling.

Another one of my favourite soups https://recipesatmytable.com/lentil-beef-barley-soup/

Ingredients For the Soup

• 3 cups of peeled chopped carrots
• 1 large onion quartered
• 2 cups vegetable or chicken both
• 2 cups milk
• 1 tsp slat
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp all purpose flour
• salt and pepper
• parsley
• cooked chicken breast or grilled shrimp

Process

Put the carrot, onion, broth and salt into a sauce pan.  Cover and cook for 20 minutes until they are soft.

Remove the cooked carrots to a bowl and let cool.

Using an immersion blender pulse everything.

In the same pot melt the butter and add the flour to make a roux.

Cook out the flour and then warm up the milk and slowly pour it into the melted butter and flour.

When it comes to a boil add the carrot puree .

Serve with my double grilled cheese sandwiches.  

 

Double Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Butter both sides of the bread.

Put one side down on your heated grill for girls marks.

Assemble your condiments and at least 2 to 3 types of your favourite cheeses to layer.

Slather the condiments and place the cheese onto the grilled side of the bread.Make sandwiches and now butter the other side of the bread and return to the grill.

On the grill and pressed down.