Comforting Spinach Soup Recipe

Posted By: Sreya Vittaldev
Category: Other
Level: Easy
Cooking Time: 20 - 25 min
Serves: 1
Views: 2568

About Recipe:

A sea of swirling green, with surprising spoonfuls of soft feta and a nutty crunch of toasted almonds. Here’s my spinach soup - made with an easy vegetable stock! This vegetable soup stock doesnt need too many veggies to get a nice rich stocky flavour. You can use the veg stock as a base for so many things: dal, sambar, curries that are both meat and plant based. Play around as you see fit :)

Ingredients:

quarter cup of minced garlic
2-3 diced carrots
onions quartered
1 large broccoli
5-6 small pieces of ginger
5-6 cloves of smoked garlic
water
olive oil - as needed for blending
evoo - for garnish
1 bunch spinach
dash of dry ginger powder
dash of pepper powder
feta cheese/ fresh panner crumbled - for garnish
toasted almonds / pistachios - for garnish
rosemary/herbs of you choice - for garnish
salt - as needed

Procedure:

Add quarter cup of minced garlic into a bit of oil in the pressure cooker.
Once that has browned, add in 2-3 diced carrots and 2 onions quartered. ( keep the skin on).
Add stems, leaves and base of a big sized broccoli.
Add ginger with/ without peel- I prefer to keep skin on to extract maximum flavour.
Also add broccoli florets themselves. If you dont have broccoli you could use cauliflower.
But make sure to use at least one of these.
Next my personal favourite, a touch of smoked garlic. ( since this is a vegetable stock, you want to create as maximum flavour as possible. So adding extra aromatics will not do wrong )
tip: you can also experiment and make this soup using kitchen scraps- peeled skins, stems of cauliflowers etc.
Add hot water ( I added 2 litres. You can add in as much as your cooker can take in - the result will be the same ).
No seasoning required at this stage. Let that pressure cook for at least 5-6 whistles.
I made one serving of soup, so I boiled one bunch of spinach leaves for 4 minutes.
Once boiled - drain, run under cold water, squeeze out the extra water and add to a blender with garlic, ginger and a bit of salt.
Also add in a bit of olive oil. For flavour and for this to blend properly into a smooth paste. Add maybe 2-4 tbsps of water too but not more.
Blitz away, create your green monster and take over the world ;)
Check the vegetable stock after 5-6 whistles. Be sure to discard as much of the veg as you can. You could drain it get it super neat. I didnt. Add in as much as you like.
Add you green monster from the blender to the stock base.
Now comes the seasoning, I used regular salt, a dash of dried ginger and pepper powder.
Bring it to a slow boil and its done. Pour into a bowl drizzle some evoo, crumble some feta, or even fresh panner.
Add slivers of toasted almonds or even pistachios - whichever you like, make sure it is toasted.
Finish with a light garnish of your favourite herbs - I used a bit of Rosemary from my balcony garden.
Finish it finally with some cracked pepper and you have a beauty.