... dark weather would have been ideal if someone wanted to film a horror movie 😂.
Well, it's safe to say soup sounds pretty good to me today and I keep thinking about this one. It's a pretty easy one to make and super delicious 😋.
--Irish Cheddar Potato Soup (Vegan)--
--Ingredients--
5 large or 10 small red skin potatoes (peeled if desired), cut into cubes
1 quart vegetable broth
2 teaspoons olive oil
4 stalks celery finely chopped
1 medium onion finely chopped
1 cup broccoli florets roughly chopped
3 cloves garlic minced
1/4 cup almond meal/flour
1 teaspoon fresh dill or 1/2 dried
1 teaspoon fresh thyme or 1/2 dried
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1/2 cup sweet potato puree or pumpkin puree
2 cups unflavored plant-based milk I used almond
2 tablespoons worchestershire *see note
1 teaspoon liquid smoke optional
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3/4 cup vegan cream cheese
1/3 cup nutritional yeast or more to taste
salt and black pepper to taste
--Optional Toppings--
chopped green onions
shredded non-dairy cheese
"bacon bits"
--Instructions--
Combine potatoes, celery, onion, broccoli, garlic, and oil in a medium or large pot or dutch oven and saute, stirring often, for about 10 minutes until browned. Add the almond meal to pot along with dill, thyme, and garlic powder and stir over heat to toast the almond for about 2 minutes.
Add the broth, pumpkin (or sweet potato), worchestershire, smoke, and lemon then reduce heat to medium. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes.
Reduce heat to low and measure out about 3 cups of the soup in a glass measuring cup. Pour into a blender or food processor and pulse until smooth then return to pot to add creaminess. (Alternatively, you can use an immersion blender and simply puree part of the soup as desired.)
Stir in milk, "cream cheese", nutritional yeast, and season to taste with salt and pepper then turn off heat.
Serve hot topped with crumbled "bacon", cheese, and green onions.
-Recipe Notes-
Be sure to use a brand of worchestershire sauce that you've checked the ingredients because most worchestershires contain anchovy. Annie's makes a good one.
For the "bacon" bits I used the bacon bits from this taco salad recipe.
