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The Peoples Cook Book (book slide)
Tony Brandon's creamy fennel soup has a fruity cider flavour and makes an ideal choice for taking the chill out of autumnal days
Tony Brandon's creamy fennel soup has a fruity cider flavour and makes an ideal choice for taking the chill out of autumnal days
Roasted fennel and Somerset cider soup
Method
2. Put the fennel and onion in a roasting tin and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle the lemon thyme, coriander seeds, fennel seeds and freshly ground black pepper over the vegetables. Roast in the oven for 30-45 minutes or until lightly caramelised.
3. Remove the roasting tin from the oven, pour the cider over the vegetables and return to the oven for a further 15 minutes - until the cider has almost been absorbed.
4. Remove from the oven and cool slightly, then spoon the roast vegetables and juices into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Transfer the vegetable puree to a large saucepan and stir in the stock. Bring the mixture to the boil and simmer over a medium heat until reduced by about a third.
5. Cool slightly before straining the soup through a fine sieve. Return to the rinsed-out pan, stir in the cream, and reheat. Add the apple brandy just before serving. Ladle the soup into warmed bowls and garnish with a sprinkling of chopped fennel leaves.
Prep:
30 min
Cook: 1 hr 10 min
Cook: 1 hr 10 min
Ingredients
2 large fennel bulbs, including the feathery leaves2 large red onions, peeled
Olive oil, for drizzling
1 bunch sprigs of lemon thyme
1 tbsp Coriander seeds
1 tbsp Fennel seeds
330ml dry cider
1 litre good-quality vegetable stock
300ml double Cream
glug of Somerset apple brandy or Calvados
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