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🍲 Creamy Celery and Pear Soup with Crispy Croutons

385 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Halve the onion, peel it, and cut it into coarse cubes.
  2. 2. Clean and peel the celery, then cut it into cubes as well.
  3. 3. Wash the pears, quarter them, and remove the core.
  4. 4. Cut the pear flesh into small cubes.
  5. 5. Wash the lemon, halve it, and squeeze out the juice.
  6. 6. Remove the crusts from the toast bread and cut it into coarse cubes.
  7. 7. Wash the parsley, shake off excess water, and remove the thick stems.
  8. 8. Finely chop the parsley leaves.
  9. 9. Heat the oil in a large pan over high heat.
  10. 10. Sauté the onions together with the celery and half of the pear cubes for about 3 minutes.
  11. 11. Deglaze the vegetables with white wine.
  12. 12. Pour in the vegetable broth.
  13. 13. Simmer the soup covered over medium heat for approx. 15 minutes.
  14. 14. Heat a separate pan over high heat.
  15. 15. Fry the bacon strips for about 3 minutes until crispy.
  16. 16. Remove the bacon from the pan and let it drain on kitchen paper.
  17. 17. Reheat the pan over high heat.
  18. 18. Melt the butter in the remaining frying fat.
  19. 19. Fry the bread cubes in the hot fat for about 3 minutes until golden brown.
  20. 20. Season the croutons with salt briefly.
  21. 21. Let the croutons drain on kitchen paper as well.
  22. 22. Stir the crème fraîche into the warm soup.
  23. 23. Blend the soup finely with a hand blender.
  24. 24. Season the soup with the lemon juice, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg.
  25. 25. Divide the soup among bowls.
  26. 26. Garnish the soup with the remaining pear cubes, bacon strips, croutons, and parsley.

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