Orange soup - מרק כתום (pronounced ma-rak ka-tome) is standard Israeli fare. It can be made with carrots, sweet potatoes, squash - more or less anything that is orange. For Rosh Hashanah I wanted to do something extra to make the soup a little more festive and symbolic of the New Year.
BT's Special For Rosh Hashanah Orange Soup
Ingredients:
1 medium leek
1 small potato
6 large carrots - peeled and rough chopped
2 small zucchini
2 large cloves garlic - crushed
1 piece of raw turmeric root - grated
2 ribs celery
1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil or ghee
1 tablespoon harissa
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon kosher salt
ground black pepper
6 cups (1.5 l) water
2 tablespoons calvados
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small mild chili
2 tablespoon honey
1 very crisp small apple - peeled
10 fresh sage leaves
Directions:
Thoroughly wash leek and celery and rough chop
Add vegetable oil to large heavy gauge pot
Place pot on medium flame
Add harissa, turmeric, garlic, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves to fat
Stir 1 minute and add leek and celery
Sauté 2 minutes
Rough chop zucchini and add to pot
Sauté 1 minute
Add salt, sugar and thyme and several grinds of pepper
Sauté 1 minute
Boil water and add to pot
Add carrots
Add bay leaf and cover
Reduce flame to low and simmer for 15 minutes
Remove bay leaf
Reserve
Peel and rough chop potato
Boil potato in separate pot for 10 minutes
Remove from heat and reserve potato and boiling water
Purée contents of large pot with a wand blender
Into a large bowl strain puréed contents through a sieve or chinois
Discard pulp
Add strained liquid back into large pot
Add potato water
Rice cooked potato and add to soup
Taste for salt and pepper
Add calvados to soup and heat on very low flame
While soup is heating:
Dice apple into very fine pieces
Cut chili into thin rings
Add olive oil and chili rings to small fry pan
Sauté chili for 1 minute on medium flame
Add sage leaves and fry until leaves are beginning to crisp
Add honey
Add a pinch of salt
Remove from heat
Serve soup with apple and chili/sage/honey mixture - it has a kick!
Enjoy! !בתיאבון
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