Celery and Apple Soup with Nuts - Vegan Recipe 🍲

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• hob;
• pan;
• a pot with a thick bottom;
• blender
• knife;
• cutting board;
• tablespoon;
• tea spoon;
• baking paper.

Ingredients

Ingredients	amount
Celery	7-8 stems
Potatoes	300 g
Bow	200 g
The apples	300 g
Bouillon	1 liter
Butter	65 g
Greenery	40 g
Lemon juice	15 ml
Salt	2 tsp
Walnuts	80 g
Sugar	20 g
Paprika or chili	0.5 tsp
Cognac	15 ml
Sour cream or yogurt	4 tbsp. l

Step cooking

Cooking soup

1. First of all, prepare all the necessary products for the soup. Peel 200 g of white onion and cut it into a very small cube.
   
2. Peel 300 g of potatoes, cut them into cubes about 5 mm in size.
   
3. Rinse 7-8 celery stalks and cut them up to 1 cm thick.
   
4. Wash 300 g of apples, cut them into 4 parts, remove the core and cut them into 1 cm slices. Leave a few apple cubes for serving soup.
   
5. Once all the ingredients are prepared, start cooking. Take a pan with a thick bottom. If not, use a pan. Melt 40 g butter in a saucepan, put chopped potatoes and onions. On medium heat, with constant stirring, bring the onion to transparency. It will take 4-5 minutes.
   
6. Next, add chopped apples and celery to the pan.
   
7. For 4-5, keep all the vegetables on low heat, stirring every 30-40 seconds. Do not allow the formation of a golden crust and make sure that the vegetables do not burn.
   
8. After 5 minutes, pour vegetables in 1 liter of broth, add 1.5 tsp. salt.
   
9. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer over low heat under a closed lid for another 10-15 minutes. The soup should boil slightly.
   
10. Cut 40 g of pre-washed greens.
    
11. Add greens to the soup, boil everything together for another 1 minute.
    
12. Let the soup cool slightly and grind it with a blender until smooth. The consistency of the soup, choose at your discretion. The longer you beat, the more silky the soup will turn out.
    
13. Bring the whipped soup to a boil again, and then add 15 ml of lemon juice and, if necessary, salt.
    

Caramelization of nuts

1. To prepare caramelized nuts in a pan, melt 25 g of butter and fry 80 g of walnuts on it.
   
2. To nuts add 20 g of sugar, 0.5 tsp. salt and 0.5 tsp ground chili or paprika.
   
3. Wait until the sugar begins to melt, and add 15 ml of brandy or brandy.
   
4. Evaporate the alcohol and lay the nuts on a surface covered with baking paper.
   

Serving of soup

1. Pour the soup into plates.
   
2. In each plate add 1 tbsp. l sour cream or yogurt.
   
3. Put a few slices of fresh apple and caramelized nuts on top.
   
4. Garnish the dish with fresh green leaves and sprinkle with black pepper.
   

Cooking recommendations

• For this soup, potatoes are more suitable which quickly cooks and crumbles during cooking.
• Take hard, sweet and sour apples.
• You can cook such a soup on chicken or vegetable broth.
• For the lean version of the dish, take the vegetable broth, and replace the butter with vegetable.
• If there is no blender, you can chop the soup with a mashed press.
• If there is no thick-walled pan, fry the vegetables in a pan and transfer them to a pan with broth.

Video recipe

A step-by-step video recipe will help you see all the processes of making celery soup.

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