Carrot And Mint Soup

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 lb carrot, sliced
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 4 cups vegetable stock
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch (blended with 2 tbs water)
• 2 teaspoons mint, chopped
• fresh ground black pepper
• mint, to serve
• 4 tablespoons croutons, to serve

Recipe

• 1 melt the oil in a large pan. add the carrots, onion and garlic and cook gently until soft.
• 2 add the stock and pepper to taste. bring to the boil and simmer for 25 minutes.
• 3 puree or pass through a sieve. cool.
• 4 if freezing ahead then pour soup into a rigid container, seal, label and freeze.
• 5 spoon into a saucepan and heat gently until thawed. stir in the blended cornstarch and bring to the boil, gently simmer and continue stirring until slightly thickened, now add the chopped mint.
• 6 garnish with mint and serve with croutons.