Purée of Asparagus and Portobello – Gallstones
Soup Sunday
It’s a cold rainy Sunday afternoon and I have some delicious veggies that need to be cooked. Now if my toddler can cooperate I can make a quick tasty soup for lunch. I’m kind of laughing when I say “tasty veggies”. Honestly before I was diagnosed with gallstones they would have been the filler to a creamy meaty soup. Now they are the star of the show.
This soup turned out to be super quick and easy not to mention tasty. What I love about it is the entire recipe only calls for 1tbs of olive oil. That’s it.
Ingredients:
All of these ingredients (except the mushrooms) are going to be cooked down so rough chop all of them.
- 1 bunch fresh organic asparagus – bend off the bottoms
- 4 small red potatoes
- 1 medium yellow onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1.5 32 oz boxes of organic chicken stock
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 3 stalks celery with leaves if they’re there
- 4 small carrots – peeled
- 1 c chopped portobello mushrooms (set aside for the end)
- salt and pepper to taste
- palmful of dried basil
- your favorite croutons for topping
Cooks Tools:
- Le Creuset or your favorite soup making pot
- wooden spoon
- emersion blender
- chopping board
- good favorite knife
- dish towels
- kitchen spray
Making the Gallstone Friendly Organic Asparagus and Portobello Mushroom Soup:
- put the oil in the pan over medium high heat
- once the pan and oil are warm, add the onion
- then add the carrots, celery, potato, garlic
- pour the stock over the veggies and let it rip until the veggies are nice and tender – about 30 minutes
- here I go again, yes get out your emersion blender and blend all the veggies together until the soup is smooth
- once you get your soup to the consistency you like then you’re good
- at the end of the emersion process add the mushrooms and let them “wilt” in the soup.
- serve in your favorite soup bowl and top with croutons
Variations
This soup is so versatile you can use a ton of different veggies, I would always keep the celery, onion and carrot as your base, but add in or substitute the following:
- Shallots instead of onions
- sweet potatoes instead of red potatoes
- add tomatoes
- stir in some coconut milk
