Spring
Spring Vegetable Soup with Sour Cream and Fresh Dill
- Makes about six 2-cup servings
Author Notes
I made this soup after coming back from a trip to Russia with a craving for good soup like the ones I'd had there and a bonus sore throat from my friend's kids. My super-scientific homemade chicken stock usually consists of: a chicken carcass simmered for a long as you can stand it with carrot sticks, celery sticks, a quartered onion, some smashed garlic cloves, salt, whole black pepper, 2 bay leaves, and some fresh herbs. —pantryhero
What You'll Need
Ingredients
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1 tablespoon
butter
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1 tablespoon
olive oil
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1/2 cup
diced white or yellow onion
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1/3 cup
diced peeled carrot
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1/3 cup
diced celery
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1/2 teaspoon
kosher salt
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3
garlic cloves, minced
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6 cups
chicken stock, preferably home-made
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3/4 pound
red-skinned potatoes (about 3 medium)
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about 4 medium carrots (1 c. sliced)
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about 1 bunch asparagus (2 c. chopped)
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2 cups
frozen petite peas, unthawed
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sour cream, for serving
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3 tablespoons
chopped fresh dill, for serving
Directions
- Heat the butter and olive oil in a soup pot over medium heat.
- Add the minced onion, celery and carrot (the minced carrot, not the carrot slices!) and the kosher salt. Sauté for about 15 minutes, or until really soft and starting to caramelize.
- Add the garlic and sauté just until fragrant, 30 seconds to 1 minute.
- Add the chicken broth and bring to a boil.
- Prep the potatoes and carrots while the broth is coming to a boil: cut cut the potatoes (no need to peel) into 1" lengths that are about 1/3" thick. (Basically, you want the potato sticks to be the same size and shape as your chopped asparagus.) Set them aside in a bowl. Peel the carrots and slice them diagonally into 1/3" coins. Put them in a second bowl. Measure out your peas in a third bowl. Trim your asparagus, cut it into 1" lengths, and place it in a yet another bowl. Why? These veggies cook at different rates, and you don't want your peas to turn into mush while your potatoes are still raw.
- Once your broth is boiling, set your timer for 10 minutes. Add the potatoes and reduce the heat to a simmer. Add the carrots when your timer says 8 minutes. Add the peas when it's down to 5 minutes. Add the asparagus at the 3-minute mark. When your timer goes off, kill the heat and remove the pan from the burner.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary. Before serving, top each bowl of soup with a dollop of sour cream and 1/2 Tbsp. chopped fresh dill. Serve with warm bread (if you want to go homemade, I highly recommend Heidi Swanson's black bread at 101 Cookbooks) and butter.
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