Gorgeous, heavenly, courgette soup
One of my all time favorite moments on the allotment is when the courgette (zucchini) starts to produce.
It’s an epic plant.
It seems indestructible and can produce forty courgettes per plant. Yes forty!
This year we have two new varieties. A green globe sort and a yellow conventional shaped one.
We were able to plant them out early this year following the non existent winter, so they started to produce early.
Early courgettes means only one thing early courgette soup.
Now my master chef has a skill with this soup that is amazing.
Here’s the ingredients.
1. Fry the onion in a little vegetable oil until it’s soft.
2. Fry the chopped courgettes until brown.
3. The potato needs the longest cooking time.
4. So add some stock. We use an onion stock cube and around half a litre of water.
5. Simmer for a while.
6. Turn of the heat and blitz.
7. Serve
We had ours with GF pitta bread and houmous.
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Looks very yummy thank you Liz for sharing have a blessed day
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Thank you for the soup recipe. My chef is starting to groan at the daily courgettes brought in to him. They are stretching his ingenuity. It is amazing how many courgettes you get from just a few plants. I wish we could freeze them.
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You can. I sliced five pan loads last year and pan fried them in a little oil. They froze beautifully and were a real delight in winter.
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Oh that’ s great. Thank you very much for the tip.
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Glad to help. When those courgettes start mounting up it’s a challenge.
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Lovely photo.
And by coincidence, today for the first time, I took some of my courgettes to sell in the village shop. I picked them all with flowers attached, so hopefully the punters will reallise just how fresh they are and snap them up. Fingers crossed!
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We hope to have courgette flowers stuffed this week.
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Beautiful sounding soup. I have never had luck growing them but love them and their flowers. The flowers are fab stuffed with cheese and fried in a tempura batter.
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I’m hoping for stuffed flowers this weekend!
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What time is supper? Looks so good.
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We’ll save you a bowl!
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Stunning courgettes! What a crop. (40!!). Hadn’t thought of a soup. Good call.
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It’s delicious!
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😀 I love the way you come up with healthy recipe ideas. Are you inspired from watching the vegetables grow or do the ideas come from thinking of other ingredients to add in? So clever to think of good taste combinations!!
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It’s a mixture. It’s a bit like ‘ready steady cook’. See what’s grown and see what’s in the cupboard. The house chef is also a genius with an eye for invention!
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Lucky break! Good combination of talents
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I hope so. : )
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It’s a firm favourite!
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That sounds delicious! I’m still learning my way around the vegetable world, what is the purple ingredient in the picture?
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It’s the first sprig of purple sprouting broccoli. One of my favourite foods that we’ve never managed I grow well before. We just threw it in the steamer and used it as a garnish!
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Cool. Thanks!
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Good to have a talented cook in the house
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Looks delicious! I’ll have to try it with some of my many courgettes 🙂
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It’s really tasty. You can also add other flavored. It works well with chillies or curry spices.
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Just got lots of lovely zucchini and fresh onions in my co-op farm share yesterday and so happy I saved your post, sounds like it is going to be yummy soup.
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Enjoy! It’s delicious!
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