Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It's really been a while since I felt inspired - or found the time - to post to this blog. Yesterday, however, I created a soup that blew my tastebuds away so I figured I should record it for posterity. We're having one of our "Soup Lunches" at work today in honour of St. Patrick's Day, one of my very favourite holidays (bring on the spearmint candies!). I always contribute a soup toward this event (especially as I was the one to come up with the idea for it many years ago) - basically a number of us fill our crockpots with homemade soup and bring them to work to serve along with fresh bread (also made by a colleague), and softdrinks, coffee, or tea. We charge $5 per person and you can sample as many of the soups as you like. The money raised goes into our Social Committee account, which funds parties for retirements, new babies, wedding showers, etc. I'm no longer in on the organizing end of this event (too worn out lol), but I always contribute some soup - mainly because I really enjoy making it. So, cutting to the chase, here's this year's version. No pics unfortunately, but trust me, it looks good and tastes even better.

Tangy Ginger Carrot Soup

 

¼ cup butter

1 small onion, chopped
2-inch knob of ginger, finely chopped
1 tbs garlic
8+ large carrots, peeled and sliced
1 tsp salt
½ tsp freshly ground pepper
1 tbs Maille ancient grain mustard
¼ tsp chili flakes
1/8 tsp cumin seeds
1/8 tsp caraway seeds
2 900-mL containers chicken broth
4 sachets Chicken oxo
8 c water
4 green onions
1 750-mL container plain yoghurt

Saute onion and ginger in garlic until soft. Add garlic and sauté 1 min longer, stirring constantly. Add carrots, stir to coat and then pour in chicken broth. Stir in remaining ingredients, except the green onions and the yoghurt. Slice the green onions finely, reserve the green portion and add the white portion to the soup. When the carrots are cooked through and soft, process the soup in a blender until smooth. Just before serving, stir in yoghurt and sprinkle with remaining green onion.