pepper soup

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Five Pepper Soup

 

Recipe By :Sally Nirenberg, From the Night Kitchen, Brookline, MA

Serving Size : 8 Preparation Time :1:00

Categories : Vegetable Soups

 

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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tablespoon unsalted butter

1 Spanish onion -- coarsely chopped

2 red peppers -- cut in big strips

2 green peppers -- cut in big strips

2 yellow peppers -- cut in big strips

6 cups vegetable stock -- or chicken stock

1/2 teaspoon Hungarian paprika

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard -- (1 to 2)

1 cup sour cream

1/4 cup fresh dill -- chopped

freshly ground pepper -- to taste

 

1. Melt butter over medium heat in a heavy-bottomed saucepan or stockpot. Add

onion and peppers and cook, covered, until the peppers have somewhat softened,

10 to 15 minutes.

 

2. Add stock, paprika, and mustard and bring to a boil.

 

3. Remove peppers from soup pot and transfer them to the bowl of a food

proeessor fitted with a steel blade. Pulse the peppers until they are bite size.

Return to soup pot and simmer for 10 minutes.

 

4. Gently add sour cream, chopped dill, and generous grinding of black pepper,

stirring all the time.

 

VARIATIONS:

* Use peppers of one color.

* Substitute 2 chopped tomatoes for the 2 red peppers.

* Substitute fresh cilantro for the dill.

* Substitute lowfat sour cream: 190 Calories; 5g Fat (21.1% calories from fat).

 

Source:

" Recipes from the Night Kitchen: A Practical Guide to Spectacular Soups,

Stews, and Chilies by Sally Nirenberg (1990 Fireside Books; ISBN: 0671688014) "

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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 216 Calories; 9g Fat (37.0% calories from

fat); 6g Protein; 29g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; 15mg Cholesterol; 1245mg

Sodium. Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 1 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Non-Fat

Milk; 2 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates.

 

NOTES : As a rule, Sally does not like the taste or texture of roasted peppers.

But this soup is the exception.

 

Nutr. Assoc. : 0 1415 0 0 0 0 1032 0 0 0 0

 

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