Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Garlic soup / Soupe à l'ail

 

A slightly different, spicy recipe / une recette un peu différente et relevé

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For 4 / pour 4 personnes

24 cloves garlic / gousses d’ail

1 large potato, chopped in small chunks / grosse pomme de terre, coupée en petits morceaux

1 chorizo pepper or 2 teaspoonfuls paprika / 1 piment doux ou 2 cuillerées de piment doux moulu

1 good sprig of thyme / bon brin de thym

750 ml water / eau

a few lardons or bacon pieces, or a little olive oil / quelques lardons ou un peu d’huile d’olive

salt

Warm the lardons and sauter the garlic cloves for a few minutes with the chopped or ground pepper.  /  Faire chauffer les lardons et sauter les gousses d’ail pour quelques minutes avec le piment haché ou moulu.

Add the water, potato pieces, thyme and salt.  Bring to the boil and simmer for about 20 minutes.  /  Ajouter l’eau, les morceaux de pomme de terre, le thym et le sel.  Faire bouiller et mijoter pour 20 minutes.

Liquidise and serve hot, garnished with a swirl of olive oil and a few parsley leaves. / Faire mélanger avec un mixeur.  Servir chaude, garnie d’un fil d’huile d’olive et quelques feuilles de persil.

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This recipe was inspired by a photo, on the blog With Mountains Like These, of tapas in Leon, Spain, which gave me the idea of making garlic soup with paprika to give it a bit of extra flavour and colour (although not as much colour as the Leon soup).  I’ve no idea whether it tasted anything like the garlic soup in the picture, but for me it was an experiment which worked!  Thanks for the idea, Sollergirl!

Cette recette est inspirée d’une photo de tapas en Léon, Espagne, sur le blog With Mountains Like These.  Je ne sais pas si le goût est pareil, mais pour moi c’est une expérience qui a réussit.  Merci, Sollergirl!

3 comments:

Jan said...

Steve rather fancies this so we shall try it... but I'll have to buy some more garlic first! We're as sure as we can be that the reason we've had no colds this winter is because of all the garlic we eat now!

chaiselongue said...

Jan: I'm sure garlic stops me from getting colds too! Hope you enjoy the soup.

Jan said...

Well I made the garlic soup when we had some friends round, and it was a great success... although I have to confess I added a vegetable stock cube and a couple of carrots!