Nitkos Kohlrabi Cream Soup Recipes

CREAM OF KOHLRABI SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a pot over medium heat. Add onion and cook until just soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Add garlic and celery and cook another 2 minutes. Stir in kohlrabi and bay leaf and cook for 4 minutes. Slowly add water and milk and stir to combine. Mix in chicken bouillon granules.
• Bring soup to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently to prevent milk from frothing too much. Reduce heat and partially cover pot. Simmer until kohlrabi is very soft, about 30 minutes. Remove soup from heat; remove and discard bay leaf.
• Fill blender halfway with soup. Cover and hold lid down with a potholder; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend. Pour into a pot. Repeat with remaining soup. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste.
• Return soup to stove and heat until hot.

NITKO'S KOHLRABI CREAM SOUP

Steps:

• Cut spring onions and kohlrabi and sauté it in mixture of olive oil and butter.
• When it gets soft add celery, garlic, salt, pepper and water (1 liter+) and cook 20-30 minutes on easy fire.
• When the vegetable is soft take blender or stick blender to make creamy mixture. Add semolina into soup.
• In the meantime cut pancetta into very thin pieces and fry them until crunchy. Put the pancetta onto a paper towel to soak fat.
• Cook blended soup for 10-15 minutes more. Before serving add heavy cream and parsley. Serve with croutons.

CREAMED KOHLRABI

Steps:

• Place kohlrabi in a large saucepan; add 1 in. of water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until crisp-tender, 6-8 minutes., Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, melt butter. Stir in flour until smooth; gradually add milk. Bring to a boil. Stir in the salt, pepper and paprika. Gradually stir a small amount of hot mixture into egg yolk; return all to the pan, stirring constantly. Bring to a gentle boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes. , Drain kohlrabi and place in a serving bowl; add sauce and stir to coat. Sprinkle with chives and additional paprika.

CREAMY KOHLRABI SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large stockpot over medium-low heat. Cook and stir onion in melted butter until soft, about 10 minutes. Add kohlrabi; cook and stir another 2 minutes. Pour vegetable broth and milk over the onion mixture. Add bay leaf. Bring the mixture to a boil, place a cover on the pot, and reduce heat to low; cook at a simmer until kohlrabi is tender, about 25 minutes.
• Remove and discard bay leaf; allow the soup to cool slightly. Pour the soup into a blender, filling the pitcher no more than halfway. Pulse the blender a few times before leaving on to puree. Work in batches until all soup is blended. Return pureed soup to stockpot; season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle orzo pasta into the soup; cover the stockpot and simmer until the orzo is tender, about 10 minutes.

MONIKA MAGEE'S OLD-FASHIONED KOHLRABI WITH CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Peel the kohlrabi, slice into quarter-inch-thick slices, then cut the slices into matchsticks a quarter-inch broad. Set aside.
• Make the sauce. Melt the butter in a small, heavy saucepan, stir in the flour and cook over very low heat, stirring often, for 15 minutes.
• Add the milk in a thin stream, beating with a wire whisk. Raise the heat to low-medium, stir in the half-and-half and cook the sauce, stirring almost constantly, until it smoothly coats a spoon, about 10 minutes. Keep warm over very low heat, stirring from time to time.
• Put the kohlrabi in a basket steamer over boiling water and cook for 8 to 10 minutes, or until just tender. It should be firm to the bite but not Chinese-crisp.
• When the kohlrabi is almost done, beat the egg yolk in a heatproof bowl, beat in a bit of the warm sauce and then add the yolk mixture to the saucepan. Cook, stirring, until the sauce is very thick and hot, but do not let it boil.
• Season the sauce with salt to taste and just enough nutmeg to give a toasty flavor without being too assertive. Remove the basket from the steamer and toss the contents gently until the surfaces are completely dry, then combine the kohlrabi with the sauce and serve at once.

NITKO'S GARLIC CREAM SOUP

Steps:

• Finely mince onion. Put it into a pot with olive oil and sauté it until translucent. Add finely minced garlic and sauté for 2-3 minutes. Do not burn it.
• Add flour stir and remove form fire. Add vine and stir to make creamy liquid. Add chicken stock, stir and cook for 30 minutes. Add salt and pepper.
• After 30 minutes, take a stick mixer and blend soup to make it creamy.
• Add sour cream, marjoram and nutmeg, stir and add parsley leaves. Cook not more than 5 minutes. You can serve it with or without croutons, as you wish.