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Link to : “Hans’ Lighter, Healthier Comfort Food”
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Like most kid’s, when I was little I used to hate vegetables. One of my favorites in the hate department were red beets. Mom used to make a salad with them, so that salad combined the TWO most hated food stuffs – beets and onions :-(.
My Mom used to bribe me sometimes (When my dad didn’t catch it) with 10 pfennig, or about a nickel, to eat the onions, which I otherwise sorted out and pushed to the side 🙂
Of course, things have changed, like so many other Issues ( I went from skinny to fat, from handsome to rugged?, from long-haired to bald and from a vegetable hater to a vegetable lover) 🙂
I have prepared red beet soup for many years, but as it is tradition, I usually included a (un)- healthy dose of heavy cream to lighten the color and to smoothen the texture. Not this time. This beauty is pure red beets, liquefied with vegetable stock and enriched with a topping of steamed broccoli and a bit of Greek yogurt.
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Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !
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Preparation :
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- wash beets thoroughly, reserve leaves for sauteeing
- simmer beets in salted water until soft, drain, peel (reserve beet stock)
- blend with stock (add additional vegetable stock if too thick), season with cayenne pepper, kosher salt and a healthy dose of garlic paste
- pure goodness…….
- garnish soup with steamed broccoli florets and a dollop of greek yogurt
- Red Beet Delight
- Red Beet Delight
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