Cherokee Pecan Soup Recipes

PECAN SOUP RECIPE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium; add celery and onion. Sauté 20 minutes or until tender.
• Add potato and next 5 ingredients. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer, uncovered, 30 minutes or until slightly thickened and potato is very tender. Remove from heat; cool slightly.
• Process soup mixture, in batches, in a blender until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides as needed. Ladle into serving bowls. Serve hot.

SPICY PECAN SOUP

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir the onion and garlic in the butter until soft but not brown. about 5 minutes.
• Pour the chicken stock into the pot and whisk in the tomato paste, heavy cream, and lemon juice. Turn the heat to high and bring the soup to a boil. Turn the heat down to medium-low, add the 3 cups of pecan pieces and the chopped chipotle peppers, and simmer the soup until the pecans soften, about 30 minutes.
• Set aside 2 cups of soup. Pour the rest of the soup into a blender, filling the pitcher no more than halfway full. Hold down the lid of the blender with a folded kitchen towel, and carefully start the blender, using a few quick pulses to get the contents moving before leaving it on to puree. Puree in batches until smooth and pour into a clean pot. Alternately, you can use a stick blender and puree the soup right in the cooking pot.
• Stir the reserved 2 cups of soup back into the pot and bring to a simmer and season with salt to taste. Serve, hot, with a sprinkle of chopped pecans for garnish.

PECAN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot, melt butter in oil over medium heat. Add garlic, pecans and bread. Cook about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally and turning garlic and bread once, until garlic is fragrant and bread is golden.
• Transfer half the pecan mixture, half the tomatoes, half the chilies and 1 1/2 cups milk to a blender. Puree until smooth. Repeat with remaining pecan mixture, tomatoes, chilies and 1 1/2 cups milk.
• Pour mixture back into pot, along with remaining milk, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then simmer about 3 minutes. Serve hot, garnishing each bowl with a pecan half.

CHEROKEE PECAN SOUP

Steps:

• In large pot, combine the chicken, water, onion and bouillon. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover; and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in pecans and dill and simmer, uncovered, for 5 to 10 minutes longer.
• You can add more bouillon or dill to your taste.
• Serves 6.
• (Prep time includes cooking the chicken. I like to use skinless, boneless chicken thighs.).

CHEROKEE JOE'S CORNBREAD SOUP

Steps:

• In a cooking pot, melt butter over high heat.
• Add corn and sauté for 10 minutes (corn should be golden brown).
• While corn is sautéing, dice onion, bell pepper, celery, carrots and jalapeños into bite size pieces.
• Add prepared vegetables to corn and continue sautéing for 6 minutes.
• Add water and soup base and bring to a boil. Once boiling, add diced tomatoes, garlic, cumin, chili powder and seasoning salt.
• Simmer for 10 minutes until vegetables are soft.
• Add cornbread crumbles right before serving.
• NOTE: For a spicier flavor, top with diced fresh jalapeños.

CARROT CUMIN SOUP WITH TOASTED PECANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Make soup:
• In a saucepan cook onion in butter over moderate heat, stirring, until softened. Add carrots, cumin, and salt and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add water and simmer mixture, covered, 25 minutes, or until carrots are very tender.
• Prepare pecans while carrot soup is simmering:
• On a baking sheet toast pecans in middle of oven 8 minutes, or until fragrant and 1 shade darker. Toss pecans with butter a nd salt to taste.
• In a blender purée soup until smooth.
• Divide soup between 2 soup bowls and top with pecans.

CHEROKEE PEPPERPOT SOUP

Steps:

• Put meat in a large soup kettle and cover with water until it is about 1 inch higher than the meat.
• Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
• Reduce heat and simmer for 2 1/2 hours.
• Remove meat, let cool.
• Discard bones, returning meat to pot.
• Put in all vegetables, cover and simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.