Carrot Soup

Do you like carrots? Whether you like raw carrots in the form of salads or not, you will definitely enjoy this delicious carrot soup! This carrot soup recipe is my version of classic carrot soup recipe. This carrot soup is supremely creamy and has amazing roasted carrot flavor. Fun fact about this creamy carrot soup recipe is that it doesn’t require adding any kind of dairy in it to make it creamy. Please do try this recipe and enjoy the rich, creamy, healthy, flavorful, and vegan carrot soup.

Healthy eating is extremely important for our good health. We find different ways of feeding our kids vegetables. Carrot soup with yummy salad or rice plate (pulao or biriyani or risotto) or garlic bread or with your choice of sandwich makes for a deliciously nutritious meal.

Making carrot soup requires carrots (of course), one tomato or lemon juice or orange juice, onion, ginger, garlic, vegetable broth, water, and avocado oil (any oil of your choice). I use homemade vegetable broth for my recipe. But you can use your choice of vegetable broth.

Click the link below to know how to make Vegetable Broth at home:

Vegetable Broth recipe link

How to make carrot soup at home?

You can make carrot soup by simply boiling the carrots, adding spices of your choice, and blending everything together with water. This definitely is the easiest way of making carrot soup but it doesn’t give the tasty flavors to the soup.

Roasting carrots enhances the flavor of the soup. It gives the soup a nice aroma and sweet and savory flavor of the roasted carrots. While the carrots are being roasted; it is important to cook onions, ginger garlic, and tomato (optional) in a pan with your choice of oil on a medium flame.

Next step is combining roasted carrots with the other cooked vegetables. Cook them for few more minutes, add cinnamon powder, add nutmeg powder, add salt and pepper, add vegetable broth to it, let it cook, and further blend it in really good blender.

Avoid using hand blender, instead use the regular good blender. Hand blender does not blend this soup to the creamy level that is why I choose to crush the veggies with regular blender.

Once everything is crushed to thick creamy form, transfer it back to the pan, and then add water to the soup and make it as much thin as you like. Delicious carrot soup is ready to it.

Necessary Ingredients

• 4-5 big carrots – peeled and cut into pieces

• 1 tomato chopped (you can substitute tomato with 2 tablespoon of lemon juice or orange juice)
• 2 – 3 cups of vegetable broth
• 1 small onion or 1/2 big onion chopped
• 1 teaspoon of chopped or minced ginger
• 2 garlic cloves peeled and minced
• 1 tablespoon of oil (of your choice, I have used avocado oil)
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg powder (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon of ginger powder (optional)
• 1 small pinch of cardamom powder (optional it is just for aroma)
• Salt according to taste
• Pepper according to taste
• Cilantro or coriander leaves for garnishing

Preparation time: 5-10 minutes

Cooking time: 30 – 50 minutes

Serves: 2 – 4 people (Double the quantity of ingredients if you are making it for more people)

Recipe:

• Oven for roasting carrots – Preheat the oven at about 400 F (about 200 C) for 10 minutes. Line up the baking sheet with aluminum foil (do not use this foil in the microwave / convection oven). Now peel and cut the carrots in to circular or oval pieces and place them on the baking sheet 1/2 inch apart. Drizzle cooking oil and cinnamon powder on the carrots and marinate the carrots well. Bake these carrots for 20 – 40 minutes until they look caramelized and are cooked well.

• Roasting carrots in Pan – Take a pan, add 1 table spoon of cooking oil. Once the oil is warm, add peeled and chopped carrots to pan. Add cinnamon powder to the carrots and stir them in the heated oil. Put the lid on the pan and let the carrots cook. Keep stirring them every 2 – 3 minutes. Let the carrots cook for about 20 minutes or until the look caramelized and you can break them easily with your spoon or ladle on a medium flame.
• While the carrots are being roasted, in another pot or pan add 1 table spoon of cooking oil (I have used avocado oil). Warm it up on a medium flame.
• Once the oil is ready; add chopped onion, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and rest of the spices. Stir everything well and let them cook until the onions are caramelized and tomatoes have soften and all the spices have blended well. Keep stirring every 2 – 3 minutes.

• Once these veggies are ready, add roasted carrots to the deep pot or pan with onions and tomatoes mixture.
• Mix everything well and add about 2 – 3 cups of vegetable broth. Stir everything well. Let it cook for about 5 minutes at low or medium flame.
• Once everything is mixed well and cooked, transfer the mixture to the blender jar and crush everything well until the mixture is creamy and blended perfectly well.

• Once everything is blended, transfer it back to the pot or pan you used to cook the veggies.

• Add salt and pepper according to your taste.
• Add 2 – 3 cups of water slowly to the soup. Add water to the soup and make it thin as much as you like. Or you can just add one cup of water if you want the soup to be thick and creamy. Decide the amount of water according to the thickness of soup you would like to have.

• Let the soup cook for another 5 minutes.
• Garnish it with pepper powder and cilantro or coriander leaves.

• Delicious, creamy, and nutritious carrot soup is ready to eat / serve.

Tips:

• You can make this soup without ginger, garlic, onions, and any of the above mentioned spices. Just follow the same recipe and skip adding the ingredients that you do not like.
• If you have Indian tea masala (spices) or Indian curry powder you can replace the above listed spices with just these spices.
• You can make the soup creamier by adding 1 cup of coconut milk at the end while you are adding water. Please keep an eye on thickness of the soup add liquids accordingly. 

Click below to know how to make Tea masala or Garam masala at home:

Tea Masala (spice blend) / Garam Masala (spice blend) Recipe

Click below to know how to make Thai Clear Soup at home:

Thai Clear Soup Recipe

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