Carrot and Tarragon Soup-No Stock

By CheeseDiva

Ingredients

• Ingredients
• 12 oz (350 g) carrots
• 2 sprigs fresh tarragon
• 1 small onion
• outside leaves of a lettuce
• 2 oz (50 g) butter
• 1 level teaspoon sugar
• 3 level tablespoons double cream
• salt and freshly milled black pepper

Details

Servings 4
Adapted from deliaonline.com

Preparation

Step 1

First wash and scrape the carrots and slice them thinly, then chop the onion and lettuce fairly small. In a heavy-based saucepan gently melt the butter and soften the onion in it for a minute or two, then add the carrots and lettuce, stirring to get a good coating of butter. Now put a lid on and let the vegetables gently sweat for 10 minutes.

Next, strip the leaves from the tarragon, pop them in, then add 1½ pints (850 ml) boiling water, the sugar and a seasoning of salt and pepper. When it returns to simmering point, put a lid on and simmer very gently for 25 minutes.

Now either liquidise or sieve the soup, taste to check the seasoning and reheat gently, stirring in the cream just before serving.

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