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🍽️ Creamy Tomato and Carrot Soup with Gin Cream

185 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 700 g ripe tomatoes
• 250 g carrots
• 1 shallot
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 bay leaf
• 400 ml vegetable broth
• 0.5 orange (juice and grated zest)
• 1 tsp honey
• salt
• pepper (from the mill)
• 2 crème fraîche
• 20 ml gin

Instructions

1. 1. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes.
2. 2. Peel the skin off the tomatoes.
3. 3. Remove the seeds from the tomatoes.
4. 4. Cut the tomato flesh into small cubes.
5. 5. Peel the carrots.
6. 6. Cut the carrots into small cubes as well.
7. 7. Peel the shallot.
8. 8. Finely chop the shallot.
9. 9. Heat butter in a pot.
10. 10. Sauté the shallot in the hot butter until translucent.
11. 11. Add the carrots to the shallot.
12. 12. Add the tomato cubes.
13. 13. Add a bay leaf to the pot.
14. 14. Let the vegetables sweat for a short time.
15. 15. Pour vegetable broth into the pot.
16. 16. Cover the pot.
17. 17. Simmer the soup for about 30 minutes.
18. 18. Remove the bay leaf from the soup.
19. 19. Add orange juice to the soup.
20. 20. Puree the soup until creamy.
21. 21. Grate some orange zest over the soup.
22. 22. Season the soup with honey.
23. 23. Season the soup with salt.
24. 24. Season the soup with pepper.
25. 25. Serve the finished soup onto plates.
26. 26. Mix crème fraîche with gin.
27. 27. Add a spoonful of the gin cream to the soup.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 185
• Protein: 3 g · Fett/Fat: 12 g · Carbs: 17 g