Recipes By Course - Soups
Ingredients
- 2 cups tomato juice (approximately 8 medium tomatoes)
- 2 tbsp butter or margarine
- 1 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Dash onion powder
- Dash celery salt
- dash pepper
- 1/4 cup potato juice
- 2 cups milk
Directions
- Process tomatoes through the Juice Extractor. Measure 2 cups juice.
- Put juice, butter, sugar, onion powder, salt and pepper into 2-quart saucepan. Heat over medium heat.
- Add potato juice to milk. Stir into tomatoes and heat until slightly thickened.
Ingredients
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic
- 3 1/2 cups vegetable stock
- 4 green onions, chopped
- 2 fresh chili peppers, seeded and chopped
- 30 ounces black beans, canned, rinsedn and drained
- 30 ounces cannellini (white kidney) beans, rinsed and drained
- Red and green chilies, for garnish
Chili Oil
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1/8 cup cilantro leaves
- 2 fresh chili peppers, seeded
Equipment
- 2 pots, 3 to 5 quart
- Oster® Hand Blender
Directions
- Place 1/2 onion and 1 clove garlic in 5 to 6 quart pan over high heat, cook until brown.
- In the same pan, add 2 green onions and 1 chili over high heat. Stir until onions are wilted, about 2 minutes and add black beans; whirl with Oster® Hand Blender, gradually adding 1-1/4 cups stock until smoothly pureed.
- In second pot, repeat process but add white beans and whirl, gradually adding remaining stock, until pureed.
- Set both pans on medium-high heat, stir often until steaming.
- From pans (or use measuring cups) pour soups simultaneously into opposite sides of a wide 1-1/2 to 2 cup soup bowl so they flow together but do not mix (1/2 black, 1/2 white).
Repeat to fill all bowls.
- Garnish with red and green chilies. Serve with chili oil for extra kick!
Chili Oil
- Place chilies, cilantro and oil into Oster® Hand Blender cut and whirl until chilies are just finely chopped or minced (do not puree).
- Let mixture stand 24 hours and then strain through cheese cloth or very fine sieve.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 medium yellow onion, minced
- 2 cups vegetable broth (or fish stock if you have it)
- 5 small potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 yellow tomato, chopped
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1/8 cup dry sherry
- 1 pound medium shrimp, shelled cleaned and chopped into 3rds
- Chopped fresh parsley, for garnish
Directions
- Place olive oil and butter into Oster Rice Cooker. Add garlic and onion and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Add vegetable broth and potatoes. Cook about 15 minutes, until potatoes are tender.
- Add whipping cream and sherry. Stir well.
- Stir in shrimp and simmer until shrimp are cooked through and turn opaque, about 8-10 minutes.
- Garnish with fresh chopped parsley if desired.
Ingredients
- 3 tomatoes, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped
- 2 cucumbers, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped
- 1 medium red onion, coarsely chopped
- 2 red bell peppers, cored, seeded and coarsely chopped
- 1 green pepper, cored, seeded and coarsely chopped
- 1 large jalapeño pepper, cored and seeded
- 1/4 cup sherry wine vinegar, red, or balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 slices crusty bread, torn into several pieces
- Kosher salt and pepper
- water or tomato juice, to thin as desired
- 2 avocados
- 1 lime
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro
Directions
- Combine tomatoes, garlic, cucumbers, onion, peppers, vinegar, oil and bread in a large bowl.
- Working in batches, fill food processor fitted with chopping blade 3/4 full and pulse until mixture resembles a chunky puree. Pour into a large serving bowl and repeat with remaining ingredients.
- Season with salt and pepper, taste, and adjust flavors as necessary.
- Stir in water or tomato juice and thin to desired consistency.
- Chill gazpacho.
- Just before serving, peel and chop avocado into a small bowl, add lime juice and cilantro.
- Taste and reseason gazpacho as necessary, ladle individual servings into bowls and top with avocado garnish.
Serve with spicy grilled jumbo shrimp or add lump crabmeat to avocado garnish for an extra special occasion.