Oven roasted carrot soup

If you want to make anything delicious, I suggest you roast it in the oven. Tomatoes, yes…onions, yes….carrots, yes….sweet potato, yes….garlic ,yes. I think I have made my case. Roasting in the oven gives the dish a lovely aroma and an explosion of flavours that are otherwise not unearthed. I know I have two more carrot soups on my blog (here and here) but do you really believe there is a finite number of carrot soups in the world? Like I said before, carrots are able to marry any other vegetable easily and so the flavours to be explored multiply exponentially. Carrot’s natural sweetness can be balanced with any spicy flavouring and result in a magical soup. So try this one too and raise your glass to the humble carrot.

Recipe adapted from here

Serves 3

WHAT WE NEED

3 medium to large carrots

1 medium sized onion

2 cloves garlic

1 tbsp olive oil

1/4 tsp freshly ground pepper

1/2 tsp ground cumin

2 tomatoes

2 tbsp curds / yogurt

Salt

WHAT TO DO

• Preheat the oven to 200C
• Peel and roughly chop the carrots
• Roughly chop the onion
• Add the garlic, olive oil, cumin, pepper and some salt and mix well
• Place on a baking tray and bake for 25-30 minutes till they start turning brown
• Turn the tray once during the roasting to ensure equal roasting on all sides
• Take out the baking tray and cool slightly
• In the meanwhile, soak the tomatoes in hot water for 10-15 minutes
• Peel the skin, deseed the tomatoes and purée it
• Add the roasted vegetables to a mixer / food processor and blend to a smooth mix
• Add the purred vegetables and the tomato purée to a pot and mix well
• Stir in the yogurt and adjust for salt
• Let it simmer for 10 minutes or so till it is hot
• Serve hot
• Enjoy!

This is my post for the Blogging Marathon under the theme, ‘One vegetable three ways’.

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