Parsnip soup with sour cream

Recipe By:Hannah Lewry
Serves:6
Prep Time:30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 1.2 lemon, zested
  • 1/2 tsp paprika
  • 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 x 400 g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • 2 tbsp sour cream
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 2 cups milk
  • 6 sprigs fresh thyme
  • 1 L organic chicken stock
  • 40 g Butter
  • 1 onion
  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 6 baby leeks, finely sliced
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 900 g parsnips, roughly chopped

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Cooking Instructions

  1. To make the soup, preheat the oven to 180°C. Season the parsnips and roast with 1 T olive oil for 25 minutes.
  2. Fry the leeks, garlic and onion in the butter over a low heat for 5 minutes until soft. Add the roast parsnips, 2 T olive oil, chicken stock and thyme. Simmer for 40 minutes, or until tender.
  3. Add the milk, season and blend until smooth. Just before serving, reheat the soup, fold in the sour cream and top with the spiced chickpeas.
  4. To make the spiced chickpeas, preheat the oven to 200°C. Combine the chickpeas, cumin, paprika, lemon zest and seasoning. Toss with the olive oil and bake for 30 minutes, or until crunchy. Serve immediately sprinkled over the hot soup.