members recipes
cucumber soup
Added by maddimouse | Sat 25 Apr 2009 @ 09:42
This is the basic recipy for my cucumber soup. You can eat it hot or cold, just how you like it. I have made this soup when I had a lot of cucumbers left over and froze some of it.
Ingredients
1 tblsp butter
1 tblsp olive oil
150 g onions, chopped
2 cloves of garlic
100 g potatoes, peeled and chopped
3 cucumbers, washed, seeds removed and chopped
250 ml veg stock
250 ml white wine
200 g cream
2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp marjoram
1 tblsp dill
2 tsp sweet mustard
Method
Put the butter and olive oil in a pan, let the butter melt.
Add the onions, garlic and potato, stir-fry until the onions are glassy. Add the cucumber and stir-fry for two or three minutes, it should take a little bit of colour by now.
Add the stock, wine and cream and let the soup slightly boil until the potatoes are done.
Blend the soup with a hand blender, add all the spices. Stir the soup and wait for two or three minutes, then check if you need to add some more spices.
Serve hot or cold.
ALTERNATIVE:
If you want to serve this soup cold, you can replace the cream with yoghurt. Add the yoghurt as soon as the soup has cooled off to about room temperature and put it in the fridge.
Leave comments
search member recipes
register now and start adding your own recipes, chatting in the forums, + much more...
gardening articles
what's in season now
calendar guide
jamie's recipes quick links
courses and drinks:
starter | main courses | dessert recipes | snacks and sides | dressings / sauces | drinks
main categories:
beef | bread | cheese | chicken | chocolate | curry | duck | egg | fish | fruit | home cooking skills | lamb | legume | other | other meat | pasta | pastry & cake | pizza | pork | rice | risotto | salad | seafood | soup | turkey | vegetarian | venison
tv shows recipes:
15-minute meals | 30-minute meals | food fight club | jamie does | jamie's america | jamie's fish suppers | jamie's great britain
special occasions:
boys' night in | christmas recipes | easter recipes | father's day | girls' night in | halloween | holiday recipes | mother's day | pancake day | romantic dinner for 2 | summer party | thanksgiving | valentine's day
our favourites:
base recipes | breakfast recipes | chilli | christmas - breakfasts | christmas - dual cook oven recipes | christmas - festive drinks | christmas - kids | christmas - leftovers | christmas - parties | christmas - veggie xmas | comfort food | easy lovin' | food revolution | jubilee picnic | labour of love | love to have a go | olives | philips and jamie oliver tools | recipease | stews & casseroles | summer dining | summer recipes
world food:
asian inspired | italian | jamie does france | jamie does greece | jamie does italy | jamie does morocco | jamie does spain | jamie does sweden
tried this recipe or a similar one? share your tips...
What a lovely soup! A great way to use up all my cucumbers which just keep growing and growing! I did not take the seeds out and I did not have any sweet mustard so I just mixed one tspn of dijon with 1 tspn of honey. The soup tastes amazing!
Yum! I am American, so didn't know if I should use dried or fresh dill and marjoram. I used dried and it works -- what doesn't work with cream and white wine?!?. I also didn't peel the cucumbers (Cheslea Prize from my yard), and I used a regular blender.
I don't know what I did wrong but my soup turned up un-eatable..It turned out bitter, tough the cukes were not bitter when raw, I tried them before cooking.
the soup WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This recipes is super great!
THIS SOUP IS INCREDIBLE!! We just made it tonight (hot) and had to restrain ourselves from eating the entire pot at once. Peter said, "This is probably the best soup I've ever tasted in my life." And this from a guy who won't eat cream unless it's in coffee or a dessert. Just so's you know...<br /> <br /> The onions, potatoes and cucumbers were from our CSA, so that probably made it even better, and we used whipping cream and organic sea salt (only 1 tsp). Mustard was Dijon.<br /> <br /> It has a lovely texture and colour, light green with dark green dots from dill weed and green onion tops.<br /> <br /> This recipe is going in our (pretend) fire-proof recipe box and will likely get ratty from much use -- thank you for sharing this!<br />
A good way to use cucumbers from your garden and fancy enough to serve to guests at a dinner party.
brilliant with the cucumber producing so many nice to know you can do the freezing of this soup and be selfsufficient through the winter. seeing as groing your own is the main reason to do so
Excellent. Love it. Cheers!