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Carrot Soup with Ginger and Carrot Blossom Meatball Skewer

5 from 7 votes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 4 people
Calories 363 kcal

Ingredients
 

For the soup:

  • 700 g Carrots (600 g + 100 g)
  • 1 Onion (approx. 150 g)
  • 50 g Ginger
  • 1 tbsp Oil
  • 750 ml Vegetable broth (3 teaspoons instant)
  • 3 tbsp Creme fraiche Cheese
  • 3 tbsp Cooking cream
  • 0,5 tsp Salt
  • 0,5 tsp Sugar
  • 1 pinch Pepper

For the meatballs:

  • 200 g Mett (half and half)
  • 1 sprig Basil
  • 1 Egg
  • 3 tbsp Breadcrumbs
  • 0,5 tsp Salt
  • 0,5 tsp Sambal oelek
  • 1 pinch Pepper

To serve:

  • 4 Shish kebab sticks
  • 4 leaves Basil

Instructions
 

Soup:

  • Peel the carrots with a peeler, dice except for one carrot. Scrape a carrot with the carrot blood scraper / vegetable peeler 2 in 1 decorating blade. Peel and dice the onion. Peel and finely dice the ginger. Fry the vegetables (diced carrots, diced onions and diced ginger) in a saucepan with oil (1 tbsp) and deglaze / pour over the vegetable stock (750 ml). Add the scraped carrot and cook / simmer everything with the lid closed for about 10 minutes. Remove the scraped carrot and cut into decorative carrot blossom slices (approx. 4 - 5 mm thick) with a knife. Puree the soup very finely with a hand blender and season with crème fraîche (3 tbsp), cooking cream (3 tbsp), salt (½ teaspoon), sugar (½ teaspoon) and pepper (1 pinch) and mix well again.

Mettballs:

  • Wash and chop the basil. Put all ingredients (ground meat, basil, egg, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper and sambal oelek) in a bowl and knead a dough. Shape small balls (approx. 20 pieces) with moistened hands and fry them in a pan with oil (1 tbsp) until golden-brown.

Serve:

  • Thread the meatballs alternately with carrot blossoms onto shashlik sticks. Serve the soup with a skewer of carrot blossom and meatballs garnished with basil leaves.

Nutrition

Serving: 100gCalories: 363kcalCarbohydrates: 38.9gProtein: 5.7gFat: 20.4g
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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