Without offering too many excuses, I have been a little busy lately and have held off from blogging. It’s good to recharge those batteries and see what else is going on in “real life”. So back to the drawing board. I don’t know about you but sometimes I tend to go overboard with my fruit and vegetable purchases. I tend to stock up on certain items thinking that a food famine is just around the corner! Recently I had bought a few too many carrots and had used them in a number of ways but every time I opened the fridge, there they were still lying in the bottom of the crisper!
The weather has been really confusing here. We had a few unseasonally hot days with really cool windy nights. Nothing is more comforting than a steaming bowl of soup. I really wanted to use the last of the carrots so I decided to make them into a soup. I wanted their natural sweetness to shine and I did this by roasting them with some honey and a hint of cumin. Roasting the carrots allowed them to naturally caramelise. They could have easily been served as a side dish to a nice roast but I wanted to play it simple. I also added some ginger to give the soup a bit of a kick. A perfect marriage!
Again, soup is really easy to make and you can pretty much add whatever you like to it. There’s no “specific” recipe as such. You may choose to add chicken or vegetable stock depending on how vegetarian you are. I basically just fried some minced shallots and garlic in a little olive oil and once this had become translucent I added my previously roasted carrots (I cut up 4 large carrots into chunks and tossed them in a combination of olive oil, 2 tbsps of honey, salt, pepper and cumin powder. I cooked them in a very hot oven for 45 mins until they had caramelised and were cooked through). I used two cups of chicken stock and added a good tablespoon of grated ginger. I let it come to a boil and used my trusted “stab” blender to whizz everything up. I garnished the dish with a dash of cream and some parsley (coriander would have been even better here). Enjoy!
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Superb Peter! I love carrots and cumin roasted together. My favourite part of roasted carrots is the blackened bits where the honey has caramelised.
Re: Hand blender – there’s nothing better for whipping up a quick soup. I can’t live without mine!
Your pictures are amazing! A delicious soup for the colder days! I love that flavor combo!
Cheers,
Rosa
You make me wish for winter to come soon and make some of your beautiful soups. Gotsa. I can still see three carrots after you’ve made the soup. What are you going to make with these?
I really like those pictures. They are very natural looking. Usually make mine “carrot and coriander”!
Pete, I almost want it to get cold so I can eat soups again! lol
Carrot & ginger soup has become one of my faves…enjoy!
aaahh Peter, next time I make carrot soup I am roasting them before! Sometimes I eat sliced roasted carrots which I love, but never then transformed them into soup! Plus with ginger, it must be fab. AND it’s healthy! What could be better for the approaching cold days to come?? Love this soup, definately keeping it in my kitchen files. YUM
P.S: I do the whole overstocking thing too, but with chocolates & sugary stuff though
thank god fall is coming, so i can begin to indulge my unholy love of soup.
mmmm. soup.
Another delicious soup! I must admit that I don’t give carrots enough credit. I always use them as a background flavoring and never let them be the star. I’ll have to follow your lead and try this soon now that our weather is getting cold.
I don’t like real life, blogging is my real life :-p I am bookmarking all these soups for the upcoming cold season. I can’t wait to try them :-p
I’m having some appointments with Real Life next week: A couple of cuisine classes!!!! With famous/wonderful chefs
Ha, ha, will blog about it 
Your soup does look comforting Peter! Can’t wait for the Autumn to come and start with my soups, stocks and broths… MMmmmm.
Roasting the carrots??? I’ve never tried that… the flavour must be so intense!
I know how life can get in the way of blogging sometimes, but I think it is a good thing to take a break every once in a while. Nice to have you back though!
I just love carrot soup!!!
This looks great, Peter.
fantastic flavors esp. with the fresh ginger, honey + cumin/can only imagine!
Lovely photography….look forward to seeing/reading more
Love the photos! The soup looks delish…
We have been having that same schizophrenic weather here, too. This soup looks beautiful. I had a very similar soup at a Turkish restaurant and fell in love. I have to tell you, I would never think I would like a carrot ginger soup (I’m not huge on very sweet soups and sauces) but the flavors were so amazing, and I’m sure I’d fall in love with your version, too!
Of course I know what it’s like to buy too much produce! Story of my life…
I love a good ginger carrot soup. Fall is coming, too.
Sounds delicious and looks gorgeous, the photos look so warm! Ginger and carrots are two things I *always* have at home…I will definitely be giving this a try as fall approaches!
gorgeous colours and flavours!!! it’s almost autumn here and we will harvest our last carrots soon.
This looks absolutely brilliant, Peter. I love carrot-ginger soup.
Soup is always good food. I too was too busy during the summer to blog much and am just getting back to it. But I guess my summer was your winter. I have such trouble wrapping my wits around Christmas being in the middle of summer! Anyway. enough rambling – carrots and ginger are so healthy and restorative.
MMmmmm carrots and ginger, great combo! Love the tureen you served it in.
Hi peter … pls come over n makes soups for me everyday !!
cuz thats th eonly suff i can enjoy after i break my fast. This looks so wonderful , but hubby will never touch it !! how u hate it when u cant make certain foods cuz your partner doesnt like them !
I really love the idea of the roasted carrots here.
Or maybe it’s just the fabulous photos tempting me to make carrot soup, even though I’m not usually fond of it…
What’s not to love about this soup Peter. We are confused to what season it is here as well. It was 30C all week and now for the weekend 21C but still perfect:D
I’m always going way overboard with vegetable purchases… soup is my favorite way not to waste it all.
Glad to have found your blog – it’s very fun!
Delicious looking dish. One of my favorite thing to do is soup like this one!
Carrot ginger soup is truly one of favorite soups. I made it all the time and love it sprinkled with toasted coconut on top! Yours looks as beautiful as can be.
Peter, I know what you mean about being busy and blogging… I’m in the same place.
Nice soup man! A nice pairing the carrot and the ginger… Thanks for sharing.
A delicious looking soup Peter. just what I need right now in the cold UK! I rely heavily on my ‘stab’ blender too!
I’ve never had carrot soup before, but oh-boy does it sound good.
I hadn’t blogged in about a week and a half, and I was starting to feel like a bum. It’s kind of nice taking a break, isn’t it?
haven’t made carrot soup, but had done carrot pudding, indian style. pretty rich, i suppose. i am curious about the taste of roasted vegetables and then pureed into a soup. hmmm… must try it one day. it’s getting hotter in here. how’s Sydney?
Hey Peter! Would you email me please? Thanks!
tried and true!
at harvest, i discovered a bag of store bought carrots that really needed to be used up, so i was on a quest to find a roasted carrot soup … and here you were!
i probably tripled your recipe and found it to be very tasty indeed …
at first taste we wondered if i had put too much honey in, but the second and remaining spoonfuls were just delicious …
my husband preferred it ‘straight up’, and i added a dollop of sour cream as i didn’t have cream proper …
and, i did have fresh cilantro leaves from the garden to add which was just the perfect touch!
thank you so much for sharing your recipe … i am passing it along today on my blog ~ pop by if you get a chance ~
cheers!
prairiegirl
Awesome. Did add some pepper flakes though for some extra heat. Mine was not so smooth though, but more … rustic (just the way I like it). The red onion I used made it a bit darker as well.
Actually, let me show you
http://i47.tinypic.com/2nlxnhg.jpg
Looks great – I wonder if it’s OK to leave the carrots unpeeled?
Made your soup.
Wow.
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