Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chestnut soup with cranberry topping. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The perfect soup for the festive Christmas season: creamy roasted chestnut soup topped with buttery mushrooms and fresh thyme. 'Tis the season! I'm not quite roasting chestnuts by an open fire, but I am making this creamy roasted chestnut soup! I'm very excited to share this chestnut soup.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chestnut soup with cranberry topping using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chestnut soup with cranberry topping:
- Get 2 small onions
- Get 80 g butter
- Get 1 small piece knob celery (ca. 75 g)
- Get 200 g precooked (and vacuumed) chestnuts
- Prepare 200 ml white wine
- Take 150 ml cream
- Prepare 500 ml vegetable broth
- Make ready salt and pepper
Add a knob of butter instead of cream, if you like. Soak the cranberries in the port for an hour. View top rated Cranberry topping sauce recipes with ratings and reviews. Creamy Chestnut Soup with Mushroom Croutons & Fried Sage LeavesAlthough I've been living here in Hamburg for a couple of years now, I find that I rarely cook German recipes.
Steps to make Chestnut soup with cranberry topping:
- Peel onions and dice. Braise in a pot with butter until translucent. In the meantime skin celery and dice. Dice also the chestnuts.
- Add the celery and chestnuts to the onions, braise for a minute (or less) and deglaze generously with white wine. Let simmer for a couple of minutes. Add cream and broth. Let simmer for 20 min.
- Put the soup in a food processor or or use a hand-held blender. Season with salt and pepper.
- For the cranberry topping: wash and pat dry 250 g cranberries. Put in a small pot with 50 g sugar and 2 tbsp red port wine, stew for 5-10 min. Add 1-2 tsp balsamic vinegar. The sour taste of this topping perfectly balances the creamy slightly sweet soup. (The photo shows only half the amount of cranberries - for two servings.)
- And elegant topping alternative for guests: roast a duck breast on its skin until crispy. Roast for a minute on the other side. Cut into thin slices and put in the hot cream soup. The meat will cook in the soup and will be very tender.
- Or serve with crispy bacon.
German cuisine, much like British, gets a pretty bad rap. To Cook Chestnuts: With a sharp knife, slice an 'X' across each chestnut. Place chestnuts in a single layer on a jelly roll pan. This chestnut stuffing recipe has cranberries in. Make our sausage meat stuffing recipe for a side dish.
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