Carrot + Ginger Soup

So how bout those new years resolutions?  Still going strong?  Yeahhhhhhhhhhh.  You may recall one of mine was eating healthy... man that can sure be a real drag.  I made some carrot soup tonight though.  So I thought maybe you'd like the recipe too - in case you're also trying to eat healthy.  It's pretty filling, and it has that clean feeling.

I got this recipe from Riverford, they deliver us organic groceries.  You may have noticed we've been eating a lot of carrots lately, that's because they're in season now.

Ingredients

• 1 tsp olive oil
• 1 medium onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tsp mustard powder
• 1 inch piece of ginger, grated
• salt and pepper
• 1 liter of stock
• 6 medium carrots
• 2 tbsp parsley
• natural yogurt to serve

Heat olive oil in a large saucepan and sautee the onion with garlic, mustard powder, ginger, and season with salt and pepper until the onion is tender.  After this add a few tablespoons of stock, and then add your carrots.  Pour in the rest of your stock, bring to a boil and then let simmer for 40 minutes.  (I actually didn't use stock, I used a veggie stock cube and just added water where it called for stock).  Then puree the soup until it's smooth.  At this point you can add some parsley and yogurt to serve, but we didn't have any.

 It's tasty but not brag to your friends delicious.  It would probably benefit from a few more spices.  But, what the heck, it's good enough for a new years resolution dinner.