Thermomix Cream of Parsnip Soup - ThermoFun | Recipes & Tips (2024)

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Ingredients

• 1 garlic clove, peeled
• 1 onion, peeled and halved
• 10g olive oil
• freshly ground black pepper
• handful fresh parsley
• handful fresh basil
• 1 bay leaf
• 600g parsnips, peeled and quartered
• 20g TM vegetable stock concentrate
• 700g boiling water from kettle
• 170g thickened cream

Garnish

• 3 rashers bacon, chopped in 1cm cubes
• 1 tablespoon chopped chives or sliced spring onion.

Instructions

1. Place garlic, onion and oil into TM bowl and chop 3 sec / speed 5. Scrape down and sauté 5 mins / Varoma / speed 1 / MC off.
2. Add pepper, parsley, basil, bay leaf, parsnip, stock and boiling water and cook 20 mins / Varoma / speed 1 / MC off and place simmering basket onto TM lid to prevent any spatter.
3. While soup is cooking - in a frypan cook bacon until crispy and drain on a paper towel or wrap bacon in a paper towel and cook in microwave 3 mins.
4. Remove simmering basket and replace with MC and carefully blend 1 min / speed 9 gradually increasing speed from speed 1 to speed 9.
5. Add cream and mix 10 sec / speed 2.
6. To serve, ladle soup into serving bowls. Garnish with crispy bacon and chives/sliced green tops of spring onion.

Notes

** WARNING – WHEN PUREEING HOT LIQUIDS FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS IN YOUR THERMOMIX INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL **
*This soup freezes well.
* If you don’t have fresh parsley or basil you can substitute with dried herbs or even use the tops of celery.