Photo by Matthew T. Stallbaumer
This winter soup features sweet corn, red peppers, cashews, and more.
20 minutes COOK TIME
Six servings SERVINGS
Ingredients
- 7 cups vegetable or chicken stock
- 8 ears fresh corn on the cob, shucked
- 1 medium carrot, grated
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/2 cup green pepper, diced
- 2 tbsp vegetable or organic canola oil
- 2/3 cup raw cashews
- 1/2 cup dry sherry
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 1 medium red bell pepper, finely diced
- Fresh parsley or cilantro, minced
Directions
- In a heavy pot, bring stock to a boil. Add ears of corn and simmer 5 minutes.
- Remove corn and set aside to cool. Cut kernels off cobs. Then use the back of your knife to scrape the “milk” off the cobs into the stock.
- In a skillet, sauté carrot, onion, garlic and green pepper in the oil until soft.
- Blend corn kernels, cashews and sherry in a food processor with enough stock to help purée the mixture. (For more texture, save some ingredients from the food processor, and add directly to stock.)
- Add purée to soup pot, and bring to simmer. Season with salt and pepper. Serve garnished with red pepper and parsley.
Read more about cold weather soup recipes: Warming Winter Soups.