Roasted Yellow Pepper Soup
- 5 each sweet yellow bell peppers washed
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 each onions yellow, medium, chopped (about 2 cups)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin ground
- 3 each garlic cloves minced
- 1 tablespoon flour, all-purpose
- 1 cup chicken broth or vegetable
- 2 cups milk warmed slightly
- Preheat oven to 400F (200C).
- Place peppers on oiled cookie sheet and place in oven.
- Roast peppers, turning occasionally, for 20 to 30 minutes, until the skins puff up and is mostly blackened.
- Place in bowl and cover with plastic wrap to sweat.
- While peppers are roasting, melt butter over low heat and cook onion gently with salt, pepper, and cumin for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until translucent.
- Add garlic and cook until aroma is released.
- Sprinkle flour over and cook, stirring, another 5 minutes.
- Stir in stock or water and bring to the simmer.
- Turn off heat and set a food mill fitted with fine sieve over pot.
- Unwrap the bowl of peppers; they should be very soft.
- Pull out and discard cores.
- Place contents of bowl, juice and all, into food mill and pass peppers through.
- Remove mill from pot and clean out pepper skins and seeds by rotating blade backwards.
- Whisk contents of pot thoroughly and simmer 10 minutes for the flavors to come together.
- Whisk in milk, pass through food mill again into clean pot, heat gently and serve.
- You could also make this soup with red peppers.
- Better yet, make both and serve a ladle of each in the same bowl.
- When you buy peppers for roasting, choose those with flat sides as the very curvy ones don't roast evenly.
- Roasting over a flame results in roasted peppers with a firmer texture, perfect for salads etc.
- Oven roasting result in a softer pepper; using the food mill to puree eliminates the need to spend time peeling and seeding.
- To make this meal even faster, you can roast and puree the peppers a day or two before.
- Roasted pepper puree also freezes beautifully.
sweet yellow bell peppers washed, butter, onions yellow, kosher salt, black pepper, cumin ground, garlic, flour, chicken broth, milk
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/roasted-yellow-pepper-soup-39462 (may not work)