Orange Soup Recipes

CARROT-ORANGE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat and cook carrots, onions, and ginger until softened, about 5 minutes. Dust with flour and cook and stir for 2 minutes. Add broth, cover, and simmer until carrots are soft, 15 to 20 minutes. Season with sea salt and white pepper.
• Puree carrot soup with an immersion blender until smooth.
• Zest 1 orange until you get about 1 teaspoon zest. Juice both oranges.
• Stir orange juice and creme fraiche into the soup and heat over medium-low heat, but do not boil. Stir in orange zest and season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with pistachios.

TOMATO-ORANGE SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°. Place tomatoes in a 15x10x1-in. baking pan, cut side down; brush tops with 1 tablespoon oil. Roast 20-25 minutes or until skins are blistered and charred. Remove and discard skins., In a 6-qt. stockpot, heat remaining oil over medium-high heat. Add onions; cook and stir until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in broth, orange juice, tomato paste and roasted tomatoes; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 45 minutes., Stir in orange zest, butter, cilantro, honey and salt. Remove from heat; cool slightly. Process soup in batches in a blender until smooth. Return to pot; heat through.

CREAMY CARROT & ORANGE SOUP

Steps:

• Brown the onion in the butter until soft.
• Put onions carrots and chicken stock in a sauce pan.
• Add Orange juice, heat to meld the flavors.
• Puree in a food processor until very smooth season with salt& pepper and Return to saucepan and blend in the nutmeg.
• Bring to a boil stirring during cooking time.
• To serve top and swirl in two tbsp of cream (or yogurt).

GRETCHEN'S TOMATO ORANGE SOUP

Steps:

• Place whole poblano peppers on the grate of a stove-top gas burner set to medium-high. Rotate peppers over the flame using a set of tongs until the outer skin blackens and blisters and is charred on all sides. Transfer peppers to a paper bag, tightly close the bag, and set aside for 20 minutes. Remove peppers from bag and peel off charred skin. Trim stems and seeds; discard. Chop peppers and set aside.
• Melt butter over medium-high heat in a large stockpot. Add onion; cook and stir until lightly browned around the edges, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Pour wine into the pot over onions; bring to a boil while scraping any browned bits off of the bottom of the pot. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until onions are well browned, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in chicken stock, fresh tomatoes, canned tomatoes, poblano chiles, carrot, bay leaf, orange zest, thyme, paprika, salt, and pepper. Bring to a simmer and cook until the vegetables are soft, about 30 minutes. Remove bay leaf and discard.
• Pour the mixture 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 mixture moving before leaving it on to puree. Puree in batches until smooth. Strain soup through a fine mesh sieve back into the stockpot. Alternately, use a stick blender and puree the mixture right in the pot.
• Return pureed soup to a simmer; stir in cream. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Serve topped with a dollop of creme fraiche and chopped basil.

"ORANGE" SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and cube the squash and sweet potato. Chop the carrots. Put in a pot and add water to just cover the vegetables. Boil until vegetables are soft, then mash with a fork (do not drain the water).
• Add the yogurt and the broth. Squeeze the juice out of the mandarin and add. Stir well so that the solids mix with the liquids.
• Add spices, honey, salt and pepper.
• You're done! (Easy, right?).

ORANGE VEGETABLES SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place the squash and pumpkin in a large baking dish. Pour about 1-inch of water into the dish and cover with aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven until the squash and pumpkin are tender, 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Heat the oil in a stockpot over medium heat. Combine the onion, celery, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in the hot oil and cook and stir 3 to 5 minutes. Crumble the vegetable bouillon into the onion mixture; stir. Slowly add the boiling water to the mixture while stirring. When the water returns to a boil, add the carrots and sweet potato; season with salt; cover and cook until the potato and carrots are tender, 20 to 25 minutes; remove from heat. Scrape the flesh from the baked squash and pumpkin and add to the soup. Allow soup to cool for 15 minutes.
• Ladle batches of the soup into a blender or food processor and blend on high until smooth. Repeat until all soup has been blended. Return blended soup to stockpot over medium heat. Stir in the evaporated milk and orange juice. Cook soup until entirely heated, 10 to 15 minutes.