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Carrot Cheddar Soup

Published: Feb 6, 2013 Last Updated: Sep 2023 by Lindsay This post may contain affiliate links to products I use and enjoy. Leave a Comment

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Serve with bread and extra mascarponeWell.

I got something in my eye.

I'm not sure at this point if it's pinkeye, irritation due to contact wearing, something really cool that I don't even know about yet, or just mutiny of every blood vessel in one eye for staring at a computer all day every day.

I am sure, that it hurts.  In a way that has me swearing every 5 minutes.  In a way that requires REST from getting dressed, doing work, or looking at anything that isn't, well, black.

It's a good day, is what I mean.

On good days like this one, I need comfort food.  For me, cheese is comforting.  Is it for you too?  It's also moderately cold here, which means that it's already sunshiny (eff my eye, that sh*t hurts) and will reach 60 in a matter of hours.  Not that I can enjoy it, but this morning it was, like, 43.  So we need soup.  With cheese.

Wanna see a fun way to make it?

Cheddar Carrot Soup

Here's what you need:

  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 3 large carrots
  • 1 stalk celery
  • ½ medium onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • ½ cup tomato juice or puree (I used the juices from 1 13 oz can diced tomatoes)
  • 2 - 3 cups vegetable or chicken stock - see how I make my own here!
  • 4 oz mascarpone cheese
  • 4 oz sharp cheddar cheese
  • ½ to 1 cup milk
  • 1 scallion, optional, for serving
  • ½ cup mixed fresh herbs, optional, for topping
  • crusty bread, for serving

Ingredients

These ingredients are totally affordable minus the mascarpone.  Sorry about that.  Do you know what mascarpone is?  It's like cream cheese mixed with butter.  Seriously.  It's DELICIOUS, and you can add it to anything you'd like to make creamy, spread it on bread...eat it with a spoon....you get the picture.

So.  Let's make soup!  First, scrub the carrots and cut off the ends.  Cut them into large chunks - ⅔ inch or so.

Chop carrots

Add the carrots, olive oil, and a sprinkle of salt and pepper to a large soup pot.  Turn the pot to medium heat.

Start carrot with salt and pepper

While the carrots and pot are warming up together, cut the celery stalk into chunks about the same size as the carrots.

Roughly chop celery

Same with the onion!  No need to be precise about it, we're going to blend the soup all together later.  Mince the garlic too.

Chop up onion

When the carrots have just started to soften, after about 7 minutes, add the celery and onion and stir the veggies together for 2 minutes.

Add other veggies to carrots

Then add the garlic, and stir for one more minute, just until you can smell the garlic.

Add garlic to hard veggies

Now, sprinkle the flour over all the veggies and stir again, so the veggies get coated with the flour.  We're adding the flour to slightly thicken the liquids so we don't have to add TOO much dairy later on to thicken the soup.  Smart, huh?

Sprinkle flour over softened veggies

When the flour has cooked for a minute or two, pour in the tomato juice...

Add tomato juice to floured tomatoes

...and the stock!  You want enough stock so that it comes about ½ inch above the veggies.

Add stock to veggies and tomatoes

Now, let's cook the soup.  Cover the pot and let the soup simmer (you'll need to lower the heat, likely) for 20 - 30 minutes until the carrots are very tender.  Test them with a fork.

Let soup simmer until tender

While the soup is cooking, grate the cheddar - I used white, but yellow is just fine!

Grate cheese while veggies cook

Grab any topping ingredients you'd like, too.  I used 1 scallion and a handful of parsley and fresh dill.

Gather topping ingredients

When the veggies are cooked, use an immersion blender or regular blender to puree the soup until it's very smooth.

Puree cooked soup

Then, add in the dairy!  Two cheeses and milk - start with half a cup and add more if you'd like a thinner soup.

Add millk cheeses to pureed veggies

Now, stir everything together to melt the cheese and taste - add more salt and pepper if you'd like.

Add extra salt and pepper last

That's it!  This is really simple and SO delicious.  We loved it for lunches for several days after I made this!  You can of course make this way ahead and serve it whenever you'd like - it kept really well in the fridge for 4 days and might have lasted longer if we hadn't gobbled it all up!

Serve soup with green toppings

And....I served this with toasted bread smeared with mascarpone cheese.  I think I ate more bread than actual soup.  That still makes the meal healthy, right?

Serve with bread and extra mascarpone

I need an intervention.

 

 

Recipe

Carrot Cheddar Soup

Lindsay Howerton-Hastings
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Total Time 40 minutes mins

Ingredients
  

  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 3 large carrots scrubbed and cut into bite-sized chunks
  • 1 stalk celery cut into bite-sized chunks,
  • ½ medium onion roughly chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic roughly minced
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • ½ cup tomato juice or puree
  • 2 - 3 cups vegetable or chicken stock
  • 4 oz mascarpone cheese
  • 4 oz grated sharp cheddar
  • ½ cup milk or half and half
  • 1 sliced scallion and fresh herbs your choice, for topping
  • bread and extra mascarpone for serving

Instructions
 

  • In a large soup pot, add the olive oil and carrots with a sprinkle of salt and pepper over medium heat. Stir the carrots to coat with the olive oil for 5 minutes until starting to sizzle.
  • Add the celery and onion and stir to combine for 5 more minutes, until the veggies have started to soften.
  • Add the garlic and stir for 1 minute, then sprinkle the flour over the vegetable mixture. Stir the flour into the veggies for 2 minutes to cook it slightly.
  • Add the tomato juice and 2 cups of stock to the veggie/flour mixture. Stir to combine, and increase the heat slightly so the mixture comes to a bubble and thickens. Cover the pot and reduce the heat to medium – simmer the vegetables for 15 – 20 minutes until the carrots are very soft.
  • When the veggies are cooked, use an immersion blender or regular blender to puree the soup, then return to the pot if you used a regular blender.
  • Over medium-low heat, add the cheddar, mascarpone, and milk to the soup. Stir to combine and melt the cheeses, then taste. Add more salt and pepper to your taste.
  • If the soup is very thick, add additional stock 2 tablespoons at a time until the soup is a consistency that you enjoy.
  • Serve soup topped with fresh herbs and scallion alongside crusty bread smeared with extra mascarpone.
  • Enjoy!

Nutrition

Serving: 4g
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