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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chestnut soup with cranberry topping using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chestnut soup with cranberry topping:
- Make ready 2 small onions
- Make ready 80 g butter
- Prepare 1 small piece knob celery (ca. 75 g)
- Make ready 200 g precooked (and vacuumed) chestnuts
- Make ready 200 ml white wine
- Make ready 150 ml cream
- Make ready 500 ml vegetable broth
- Take salt and pepper
Steps to make Chestnut soup with cranberry topping:
- Peel onions and dice. Braise in a pot with butter until translucent. In the meantime skin celery and dice. Dice also the chestnuts.
- Add the celery and chestnuts to the onions, braise for a minute (or less) and deglaze generously with white wine. Let simmer for a couple of minutes. Add cream and broth. Let simmer for 20 min.
- Put the soup in a food processor or or use a hand-held blender. Season with salt and pepper.
- For the cranberry topping: wash and pat dry 250 g cranberries. Put in a small pot with 50 g sugar and 2 tbsp red port wine, stew for 5-10 min. Add 1-2 tsp balsamic vinegar. The sour taste of this topping perfectly balances the creamy slightly sweet soup. (The photo shows only half the amount of cranberries - for two servings.)
- And elegant topping alternative for guests: roast a duck breast on its skin until crispy. Roast for a minute on the other side. Cut into thin slices and put in the hot cream soup. The meat will cook in the soup and will be very tender.
- Or serve with crispy bacon.
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