Recipe: Purple Valentine’s Day Soup

by Michelle on February 9, 2012 · 7 comments

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Here is a delicious savoury recipe to serve to your loved one (or just make for yourself) on valentine’s day. What we eat affects not only our general health, but the food we eat also affects our reproductive systems and how sexy we feel. When we eat well and power-up our diet with lots of variety and a mix of good quality animal products (or a well balanced vegetarian diet, if thats your thing) and fresh fruit and veggies we supply our mind and body with what it needs to be happy and healthy in so many ways. I’m sharing this recipe with you because it is rich in antioxidants and has a hint of chilli and ginger which are traditional tonics for improved circulation, are anti-inflammatory and are also foods that are antioxidant-rich and of course this soup is delicious!

Recipe: Purple Valentine’s Day Soup

Ingredients:

  • 1 Tbsp. of non-hydrogenated lard or bacon fat or butter (or coconut oil)
  • 1/2 purple onion, chopped roughly
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 2 tsp. ginger
  • 1/2 red chilli
  • 4 purple carrots, ends cut off and carrots chopped roughly
  • 100g of puy lentils (soaked for at least 8 hours in water or use drained canned lentils)
  • 1/3 purple cabbage, sliced thinly
  • 1/2 potato, cut into small cubes: Adding the potatoes into the soup gives it a really creamy texture
  • water or bone broth (enough to cover the veggies)
  • salt, to taste
  • pepper, to taste
  • chevre goats cheese
  • cayenne pepper powder or 1 sliced red chilli

How to:

  1. In a large saucepan, melt the lard/bacon/coconut oil. Add the purple onion, garlic and ginger and saute until the onion is soft.
  2. Add the chopped purple carrots, puy lentils, 1/3 of cabbage, 1/2 potato and water and simmer on low until all the vegetables are very soft.  Add salt and pepper to taste.
  3. Then using a blender or a hand held mixer, blend the soup until it is creamy and smooth.
  4. Pour in bowls and serve with a bit of crumbled chevre goats cheese and a sprinkle (or more) of cayenne pepper.
  5. Enjoy!

Michelle

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Health Food Lover is Michelle Robson-Garth. Michelle is a degree-qualified Naturopath (BHSc) and Massage Therapist. She is also a passionate writer, recipe-creator and all-round foodie from Melbourne, Australia. © Copyright: 2009-2012 Michelle Robson-Garth. Please ask permission first when using any text or images on healthfoodlover.com. Read the disclaimer here. Have a look at the recipe index for more health food lovin’ recipes. Join the Facebook page & follow Health Food Lover on twitter.

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Robert C. March 2, 2012 at 10:09 am

It looks delicious! I’ll try this next time I’m in the kitchen. :-)

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Joy Johnson April 6, 2013 at 10:09 am

What stores can I go to to buy purple carrots and puy lentils? I only see were I can buy the seeds online.

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Michelle April 9, 2013 at 9:55 am

Puy lentils (also called French lentils) can be dried or bought tinned, you should be able to buy these from a supermarket. You might be able to buy purple carrots from farmer’s markets or from some supermarkets. It also depends if they are in season as well. I hope that helps!

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Kristen February 6, 2017 at 2:18 pm

Wow! The colour of this soup is amazing! We are hosting our neighbourhood soup night on Feb 13th and I would love to make this!!! Not sure if I will be able to source purple carrots but I hope so! (Squee! So excited to make purple soup for Valentines!!)

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