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Roasted Garlic Soup is easy and delicious. An excellent combination of roasted sweet garlic, thyme, wine, and cream. The potatoes gives it a smooth delicate texture
Do you like eating healthy home made food that tastes amazing?
This Roasted garlic cream soup is rich and creamy, full of nutrients, a great immune booster, super easy to make and taste delicious!
Look no further. This recipe has it all!
Garlic and potatoes are my two favorite vegetables to grow at home and to eat. This creamy roasted garlic soup highlights both those ingredients so there is no surprise that this is a favorite dish of mine.
Read about how to grow garlic successfully and the easy way to grow amazing no dig potatoes.
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Ingredients
This potato and roasted garlic soup contains simple ingredients that most people have in their pantry already.
Onion - brings sweetness and flavor
Garlic - the main flavor
Potatoes - gives the dish texture, body and creaminess
Bay leaves - for flavor
stock (chicken or veggie) - for flavor
thyme - great flavor, pairs perfectly with roasted garlic
white wine (dry is best) - great flavor
cream - gives the soup a silky smooth creaminess
Parmesan cheese - brings flavor and creaminess
butter - for flavour and creaminess
How to make Roasted garlic cream soup
This is an easy soup to make. Follow the simple steps below:
- Place the garlic heads on an olive oil greased oven tray or tin foil sheet.
- Drizzle with more olive oil, salt and pepper.
- Cover with tin foil and roast in a 150C oven until soft and creamy. Around 40 minutes.
- Saute onions in oil and butter until soft.
- Add thyme and bay leaves, stir.
- Add potatoes and enough stock to cover everything. Simmer for 30- 45 minutes.
- Add the roasted garlic by squeezing the soft flesh out of the skin straight into the soup. Cook for another 10 minutes.
- Add cream and Parmesan cheese, cook for another 5 minutes
- Blend with the hand mixer. Add a knob of butter and blend until smooth.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Garnish with croutons, grated Parmesan cheese and parsley.
- Enjoy!
Health benefits
Garlic is an amazing natural remedy with remarkable medicinal properties – and it tastes great, too. This amazing vegetable is known to protect Your Heart, Reduce Inflammation in Your Body, lower your risk of cancer, Fight Infectious Diseases and more.
Garlic soup is a highly medicinal soup that taste great, soothes and comforts. Roasting the garlic first reduces the heat of the garlic and changes the strong pungent taste to mild, sweet and nutty flavor and you can consume far more of this super ingredient.
This delicious cream of garlic soup helps boost your immune system while reducing inflammation throughout the body. Making it especially helpful in fighting respiratory infections such as common colds and sore throats.
This soup is as nutritious as it is delicious!
Variations
- Add cooked shredded chicken or eggs (poached or hard boiled) to make it a substantial main meal
Equipment needed
- Sauce pan
- Wooden spoon
- Roasting tray
- Stick blender
Storage
Leftover garlic cream soup store well covered in the fridge, just reheat again when ready. Good for 3-4 days.
Why you love this soup
- Surprisingly easy to make
- Healthy, healing inflammatory and taste delicious
- extremely nutritious, sure to keep colds away
- very tasty
Serving suggestions
- simply with crispy croutons as an entree
- with homemade focaccia bread or cheese and onion rolls as a main meal
- Add hard boiled or poached eggs to the soup
- Add cooked shredded chicken and make it a substantial main meal
- Drizzle truffle oil, grated Parmesan and croutons on top for a luxury spin and fit for a dinner party course sure to impress any guests
Top Tips
- Roast the garlic slowly on low heat for a sweet mild flavor
- For more sharp garlic taste, add a bit of raw garlic to the soup as well
Related recipes
Looking for other delicious soup recipes? Try these:
Crab meat and vegetable chowder
Pairing
These are my favorite bread and crackers to serve with roasted garlic soup:
Sunflower seed crackers (Swedish crisp bread
Try this amazing soothing comforting soup. It's easy, taste great and keeps the doctor away. You won't regret it!
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Roasted garlic cream soup
Ingredients
- 1 Onion chopped
- 6 small Garlic heads (or 4 Lge) cut in half diagonally
- 2 Potatoes diced
- 3 Bay leaves
- stock chicken or veggie
- thyme leaves
- 100 ml white wine
- 200 ml cream
- 200 ml Parmesan cheese grated
- butter
Garnish
- parsley finely chopped
- croutons
- Parmesan cheese grated
Instructions
Place the garlic on an olive oil greased oven tray. Drizzle with more olive oil, salt and pepper.
Cover with tin foil and roast in a 150C oven until soft and creamy. Around 40 minutes.
In a large saucepan. Saute the onions in oil and butter until soft.
Add thyme and bay leaves, stir.
Add potatoes and enough stock to cover everything.
Simmer for 30- 45 minutes.
Add the roasted garlic by squeezing the soft flesh out of the skin straight into the soup.
Cook for another 10 minutes.
Add cream and Parmesan cook for another 5 minutes
Blend with the hand mixer. Add a knob of butter and blend until smooth.
Season with salt and pepper.
- Garnish with croutons, grated Parmesan and parsley
Notes
- Roast the garlic slowly on low heat for a sweet mild garlic flavor
- For more sharp garlic taste, add a bit of raw garlic to the soup as well
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