Mushroom Soup

 I don't make this often because I'm the only one in the house who eats mushrooms. It is a treat!

Ingredients

Oil Spray

1 onion, finely chopped

2 cloves of garlic, chopped

1 punnet chestnut mushrooms, washed or peeled and sliced.

1 dessertspoon cornflour

100ml reduced salt soya sauce

Water or plant milk (I used cashew milk today as it was open, I would normally use oat milk)

Method

I bought a set of cast iron pans last year and used the largest one to make this soup.

Start heating your pan.  Add a spray of oil.

Add the chopped onion and stir in the oil.

Add the garlic, stir.

Add the mushrooms, stir with the onions and garlic.  Add a spray of oil if needed.

Add the soya sauce.  Stir and leave to cook for a minute or so.

Add the cornflour.  Mix so it doesn't go lumpy, your soya sauce should start to thicken.  Add the milk or water. 

Serve!  

 Celeriac Soup

Souper for a dreary day!

1 celeriac, chopped

1 head of celery, chopped

2 granny smith apples, peeled and chopped

1 tin of butter beans, drained and rinsed

fresh parsley

salt and pepper

hazelnuts, a handful chopped and roasted

Prep time 10 mins

Instant Pot cook time 10 mins, allow 10 mins to come up to pressure

Serves 6, 156 calories per serving

This is a fab soup, rich in Vitamin K and B6.  No oil added but some
fat derived from the yummy hazelnut topping.  This is a lovely, easy to digest, warm and comforting soup.  The butter beans give it a creaminess.

Add all of your veggies to the Instant Pot. Add enough water to come around 2/3 of the way to your veggies.  Add some Himalayan rock salt.

Set Instant Pot to 10 mins at high pressure.  Then do a QPR.

While the soup is cooking, toast your chopped hazelnuts in a dry frying pan. Set them aside to use as a crunchy topping on your soup. 

When your soup is cooked, whizz it with a hand blender in the Instant Pot. Add your chopped fresh parsley, adjust seasoning to taste.  Garnish with toasted hazelnuts

Enjoy!

Nutritional stuff

156 calories per serving

Each serving is rich in Vitamins B, K, A and C.  Good for folate, potassium, manganese and magnesium.