Garlic Spinach Soup Recipes

GARLIC, SPINACH, AND CHICKPEA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat, and stir in garlic and onion. Cook until tender. Season with cumin and coriander.
• Mix vegetable stock and potatoes into the pot, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer about 10 minutes. Stir in the garbanzo beans, and continue to cook until potatoes are tender.
• In a small bowl, blend the heavy cream, tahini, and corn meal. Mix into the soup.
• Stir spinach into the soup. Season with cayenne pepper and salt. Continue to cook until spinach is heated through.

GARLIC SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• Bring the chicken broth, garlic, and ginger to a boil in a large saucepan; reduce heat to medium and cook for 10 minutes. Add the zucchini and cook until the zucchini is tender, about 10 minutes more.
• Stir in the chicken and cellophane noodles; cook until the chicken is hot and the noodles are soft and transparent, about 3 minutes. Stir in the spinach until wilted.

GARLIC SAUTEED SPINACH

Steps:

• Rinse the spinach well in cold water to make sure it's very clean. Spin it dry in a salad spinner, leaving just a little water clinging to the leaves.
• In a very large pot or Dutch oven, heat the olive oil and saute the garlic over medium heat for about 1 minute, but not until it's browned. Add all the spinach, the salt, and pepper to the pot, toss it with the garlic and oil, cover the pot, and cook it for 2 minutes. Uncover the pot, turn the heat on high, and cook the spinach for another minute, stirring with a wooden spoon, until all the spinach is wilted. Using a slotted spoon, lift the spinach to a serving bowl and top with the butter, a squeeze of lemon, and a sprinkling of sea or kosher salt. Serve hot.

CHILLED GARLIC AND SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place fresh garlic heads on parchment-lined foil, drizzle with oil, and season with salt. Wrap in foil, and roast until tender, about 40 minutes. Let cool, then squeeze out garlic, discarding skins. Place 1/4 cup yogurt in a bowl, and stir in 2 teaspoons roasted garlic.
• Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, and saute green garlic until translucent, about 3 minutes. Add broth, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes. Let cool.
• Transfer broth mixture to a blender. Add remaining yogurt and half the spinach, and puree. Add remaining spinach, the basil, and 2 tablespoons roasted garlic (reserve remainder for another use), and puree. Add lemon juice, and season with salt. Refrigerate at least 2 hours and up to 1 day. Before serving, top with a little roasted-garlic yogurt and basil.

ROASTED GARLIC AND SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a stockpot over medium-high heat; saute garlic until browned on all sides, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer garlic to a work surface, reserving oil in the stockpot. Slice garlic.
• Mix rice in the reserved oil until evenly coated; add tomatoes and cook, stirring frequently, until toasted and fragrant, about 10 minutes. Stir beef broth and spinach into tomato mixture; cook and stir for 5 minutes.
• Stir garlic into spinach mixture, cover stockpot, and simmer soup until flavors combine, 15 to 20 minutes. Season soup with salt and pepper.

SPINACH GARLIC SOUP

Steps:

• In a 5qt Dutch oven, bring spinach, broth and carrots to a boil.
• Reduce heat; simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from the heat; cool to luke-warm.
• Meanwhile, in a skillet, saute onion and garlic in butter until onion is soft,about 5-10 minutes.
• Add flour; cook and stir over low heat for 3-5 minutes.
• Add to spinach mixture.
• Puree in small batches in a blender or food processor until finely chopped.
• Place in a large saucepan.
• Add cream, milk, and pepper, heat through but do not boil.

SPINACH AND TORTELLINI SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add garlic; cook and stir 1 minute. Stir in tomatoes, broth and Italian seasoning; bring to a boil. Add tortellini; bring to a gentle boil. Cook, uncovered, just until tortellini are tender, 7-9 minutes., Stir in spinach. Sprinkle servings with cheese and pepper.

GARLIC SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot bring spinach, chicken stock, carrot, onion, and garlic to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes.
• Cool slightly and then carefully puree in small batches in a blender.
• Return soup to pot and keep warm on low.
• Mix flour into evaporated milk.
• Stir soup while gradually adding in milk flour mixture.
• Add pepper and nutmeg; heat through. Do not boil.

GARLIC, CHICKPEA & SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a saucepan and cook the garlic and onions until soft and golden.
• Stir in the cumin and coriander and cook for one minute.
• Add the stock and potatoes.
• Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add chickpeas and simmer for another 5 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• Mix the cornflour, cream and tahini together.
• Stir into the soup with the spinach.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Bring to the boil, stirring and simmering for another 2 minutes.
• Sprinkle with cayenne pepper before serving.

GARLIC SOUP WITH SPINACH

Steps:

• Place the stock or water in a large saucepan or soup pot with the bouquet garni. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground pepper. Bring to a simmer and add the garlic. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Add the pasta and simmer 5 minutes, until cooked al dente. Remove the bouquet garni.
• Beat the eggs in a bowl and stir in 1/3 cup of stock, making sure that it is not boiling, and the cheese.
• Stir the spinach into the simmering stock and simmer for 1 minute. Drizzle in the egg mixture, scraping all of it in with a rubber spatula. Turn off the heat and stir very slowly with the spatula, paddling it back and forth until the eggs have set. Taste, adjust seasoning, and serve at once.

RICH GARLIC SOUP WITH SPINACH AND PASTA

Steps:

• Bring a medium saucepan full of water to a boil. Fill a bowl with ice and water. Separate the head of garlic into cloves and drop them into the boiling water. Blanch for 30 seconds, then transfer to the ice water. Allow to cool for a few minutes, then drain and remove the skins from the garlic cloves. They'll be loose and easy to remove. Crush the cloves lightly by leaning on them with the side of a chef's knife.
• Place the garlic cloves in a large saucepan with the 2 quarts water, olive oil, bouquet garni, and salt to taste, and bring to a gentle boil. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer 1 hour. Strain and return the broth to the saucepan. Taste and adjust salt, and bring back to a simmer.
• Add the macaroni shells to the broth and simmer until cooked al dente.
• Distribute the garlic croutons among 6 soup bowls and top each one with a heaped tablespoon of cheese. Beat the egg yolks in a bowl. Making sure that it is not boiling, whisk in a ladleful of the hot garlic broth.
• Add the spinach to the simmering broth and stir for 30 seconds to a minute, until all of the spinach is wilted. Turn off the heat and stir in the tempered egg yolks. Stir for a minute, taste and adjust seasonings. Ladle the soup over the cheese-topped croutons, and serve.

EASY SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a stockpot over medium heat. Add carrots, scallion, and garlic; cook and stir until scallion is soft, 1 to 2 minutes. Pour in chicken broth; bring to a boil. Add pasta and cook, stirring occasionally until tender yet firm to the bite, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir in spinach; cook until tender, 2 to 3 minutes more. Season with salt and pepper.

CREAMY SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• Place spinach, water, bouillon, onion, and garlic powder in a large pot over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until onion is tender.
• Meanwhile, melt the butter in a small saucepan and whisk in the flour until smooth. Cook for 2 minutes. Slowly stir in half-and-half; mix until smooth. Pour the cream mixture into the spinach soup, and simmer until thickened, about 10 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.