It pays to have friends in high places.
A few weeks ago I ended up with a half-dozen bags of assorted greens from Cut 'n Clean Greens, a local southern California company that grows all kinds of greens and packages them in ready-to-eat-or-cook bags and plastic containers. My friend Dorothy of Shockingly Delicious has been working for them for a while now. When we planned the "Kale-a-palooza" event for our Food Bloggers Los Angeles group, Dorothy brought the Cut 'n Clean folks and trucked along a whole mess o' greens to give out to the group.
I particularly liked their bagged Euro Greens mix, which contains Swiss chard, mustard greens, turnip greens, and kale. I turned it into a deliciously creamy green soup.
Nothing could be easier than this creamy soup. You start with onions and garlic. When they've sweated with a little olive oil, you add the bag of greens, one potato, and chicken broth. Cook, blend, done. Maybe finish with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Why the potato? It gives the soup a little body and a creamy mouth feel, even without cream.
Throw in a few croutons, a handful of popcorn, or some Goldfish crackers, and even the kids won't complain. Not that mine ever complain about soup. Well, hardly ever.
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Euro Greens creamy green soup
This soup uses one bag of Cut 'n Clean Greens' Euro Greens mix. It's creamy but contains no cream!
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 large onion, diced
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 1 12-ounce bag Cut 'n Clean Greens Euro Greens mix
- 1 small potato, unpeeled, diced (any variety)
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 fresh lemon, juice only
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
In a large pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook until the onion is translucent, about 3 minutes.Add the greens, potato and chicken broth and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer the soup about 20 minutes, until the greens and potato are very tender. Blend the soup until smooth using a hand-held immersion blender or a countertop blender. Return the soup to the pot (if using a countertop blender). Add the lemon juice and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve hot.
Details
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: 6-8 servings
4 comments:
You go to "creamy" soup starts a lot like mine. GREG
I like your recipe. I think I might make a soup like this using the mustard greens from my yard. Some small, tender leaves recently popped up.
Looks like pea soup, but healthier.
@Isabelle Doesn't really taste like pea soup though. More like creamed spinach, but thinner.
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