This morning I rode my bike and not expecting the roads are totally icy, I managed to have a small accident. Then I realized I left my gloves at home, so my hands were numb and red when I got home. All I wanted was a hot soup, which would warm me up and make me forget the horrible weather.
I believe roasted vegetable soups are the best things in the world. Seriously! Super easy to make, but you feel you created something amazing in the kitchen. With a slice of toast they make the most satisfying dinner.
This beetroot soup has a wonderful and fun color, the earthy beets, the sweet coconut cream and the tangy citrus work so well together. I topped my soup with some pistachios, but any nuts, greens or homemade croutons would taste great with this. It is simply the perfect winter soup!
Beetroot Soup with Blood Orange and Coconut
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 mins
- Yield: 3 1x
Ingredients
- 3 medium beets
- 2 cups of veggie broth or water
- 1 blood orange
- 2 tbsp coconut cream
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 tsp thyme
- salt, pepper
Instructions
- Roast the whole beets with the skins on at 200°C for about an hour. Once they are soft, set them aside to cool.
- Peel the skins of the beets off, cut them roughly and add to your blender. Add the crushed garlic cloves, a juice of a blood orange and all the other ingredients and blend until smooth.
- Pour the soup into a sauce pan and heat it up a bit. Serve warm. Enjoy!
Notes
The bitterness in oranges is caused by something called Limonin. It is not present in the oranges but forms after a few hours the orange was squeezed and can be accelerated by heat too. To make sure your soup won’t be bitter use freshly squeezed juice and try to warm up the soup just until the right temperature or add the (cold) juice to the already warm.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Soup
Ouch! I hope you’re okay Evi. This soup must have made you feel better. It’s gorgeous, and I love that you combined beets and blood oranges. So creative!
Thanks Linda!
Basically that was all I had at home (beetroots and blood oranges), so it wasn’t difficult to be creative 😀
Same thing here, all is slippery and icy and I too managed to fall, as my dog pulled me a little bit harder during our morning walk – maybe I should have this winter soup too, it looks nice 😉
Oh, I hope you are okay, too! My dog also doesn’t want to understand that I am not that as good walking on ice as him 😀
Oh, poor you – I hope you are okay!
I love roasted veggie soups. They have so much flavour. This one looks great 🙂
It wasn’t such a serious accident, more like still half-sleeping and ice situation, but yes, I am okay, thanks 😀
ooooooh this soup sounds incredible! So perfect for the start of winter. Hope you have recovered well!
Trish
Thank you, Trish!
Everything is okay with me, just have to be a bit more careful next time 🙂
The color of this soup is amazing! Sounds yummy too… 😉
Thank you, Susan!
Hello–came here from foodgawker and thought this sounded interesting so I gave it a try. I tasted it before heating it up and it was great, but then after heating it it became almost inedibly bitter… any ideas what could have gone wrong? Too much thyme? I did add like a teaspoon of curry–maybe that interacted strangely with something? I’m sort of a novice cook, and I’d love to try this again, so any insight into what happened would be greatly appreciated.
Hey Davey,
I am so sorry it became bitter.
It has never happened with me before, but I read a bit now about it, what could go wrong. The bitterness in (any types of) oranges is caused by something called Limonin. It is not present in the oranges but forms after a few hours the orange was squeezed and can be accelerated by heat too. So I guess this could have been the problem here. I’d try this recipe with an other type of orange or I’d add the orange juice after heating up the soup. Or you could also try using just the zest, it also gives a great flavor.
I hope I could help you and next time it will work out for you 🙂
Ahh, that’s interesting. Never would’ve suspected the orange! Thanks.
You’re welcome! 🙂
I hope now you won’t have trouble with it anymore, I’ll add this notice to the recipe too