Best Ever Cream Of Asparagus Soup
From efitobx 15 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Soup maybe made ahead of time, cooled, and stored in a refrigerator for up to 5 days. *Remember the Chef gets to drink the remainder of the bottle of wine
Ingredients
- ¼ cup grape seed or canola oil shopping list
- 2 large onion, cut into 1-inch pieces shopping list
- 4 stalks of celery, cut into 1-inch pieces shopping list
- 2 pound asparagus trim, cut into 1-inch pieces, reserve tips for garnish shopping list
- 4 cloves of garlic shopping list
- 4 bay leaves shopping list
- 2 tsp dry thyme shopping list
- 1 cup dry white wine shopping list
- 12 cups low sodium chicken stock shopping list
- 2 tsp salt shopping list
- 4 idaho potatoes peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces shopping list
- 2 cups cream shopping list
How to make it
- Heat oil over medium heat in a large stockpot
- Add onion, celery, asparagus, garlic, bay leaf and thyme and stir well
- Let cook over medium heat about 10 minutes stirring frequently so that vegetables do not brown
- Add white wine and reduce to half the original volume
- Add chicken stock and salt and bring pot to a boil
- Add potatoes and let cook 20 minutes
- Add cream and let cook five minutes longer
- Remove from heat and let cool 15 minutes
- While soup is cooling cook asparagus tips in boiling, salted water until tender
- Remove from boiling water and place in ice water immediately
- Puree soup in a blender starting first on low speed and then moving to high speed
- Pass the soup through a strainer to remove any fibers from the asparagus
- Taste soup and adjust seasonings as necessary
- To serve place 6 oz of soup in bowl and sprinkle and few asparagus tips over the top
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Reviewed by 14 people-
You guys are killing me today. Haven't even had breakfast yet and already I am thinking soup and cheesecake
karlyn255
in Ypsilanti loved it
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Sound really Great! However I'm heading for bed it's only 3:30 AM here on the big island. Good night all.
woodstock
in HAWI loved it
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What a terrific sounding recipe, thank you so much for posting. I'll be making this soon!
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in Nashua loved it
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