Celery and Pear Soup

Name: Celery and Pear Soup
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 946 milliliters coarsely chopped celery; 1 Tbsp minced fresh thyme leaves; 118 milliliters olive oil; 355 milliliters peeled, coarsely chopped ripe pear, such as Bosc or Bartlett; 4 mediums shallots, thinly sliced; 2 Tbsps unsalted butter (1/4 stick); 710 milliliters low-sodium vegetable broth; 710 milliliters water

Celery and Pear Soup is a gluten free, primal, and vegetarian soup. One serving contains 242 calories, 1g of protein, and 22g of fat. This recipe serves 6. Autumn will be even more special with this recipe. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour. If you have vegetable broth, thyme leaves, olive oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

For the soup:In a large pot over medium heat, melt butter until foaming.

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Butter

Soup

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Pot

Add olive oil, shallots, and pear, season well with salt and ground white pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 5 minutes.

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Ground White Pepper

Olive Oil

Shallot

Pear

Salt

Add celery and thyme, season with more salt and pepper, and sweat until most of the liquid has evaporated and the celery has just started to soften, about 12 minutes.

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Salt And Pepper

Celery

Thyme

Heat olive oil in a small frying pan until bubbling or about 325°F to 350°F.

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Olive Oil

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Frying Pan

Add half of the shallots and fry until golden.

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Shallot

Remove to a plate lined with paper towels, season with salt, and repeat with remaining shallots.

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Shallot

Salt

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Paper Towels

Serve soup topped with fried shallots.Beverage pairing: The delicate and fine flavors here suggest a Riesling, but to reinforce the rare and green flavor of celery, try going to a comparable but different wine, Grüner Veltliner from Austria. A light style with a little characteristic pepper fits the bill: 2006 Schloss Gobelsburg Gobelsburger.

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Riesling