Warm Cream of Cucumber Soup

Cucumbers are wonderfully pureed into a silken-textured soup that’s good warm or cold.
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Serves:
- Units:
1
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ingredients
- 30 g butter
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 650 g cucumbers, peeled, cut into chunks
- 100 g celery root, cut into chunks
- 1 small carrot, diced
- 1000 ml water
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 3 tablespoons sour cream
- 1⁄2 teaspoon white pepper
directions
- Cook onion and garlic slowly in the butter for 2 - 3 minutes until tender but not browned.
- Add the cucumber and celery root chunks, and carrot. Stir and sauté for 1 – 2 minutes.
- Add water and crumbled vegetable cube. Bring to a boil, then lower the flame, and simmer, partially covered, for 15 minutes.
- Remove the soup from the heat, and purée the soup with a stick blender (or in batches in a regular blender) until silky smooth.
- Just before serving, beat in sour cream. Season with white pepper.
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