Carrot Ginger Soup

This Carrot Ginger Soup recipe is simple yet has a pure flavor and velvety texture! Everyone will love this bright orange puree.

Here’s a bright orange puree that tastes like sunshine: Ginger Carrot Soup! This recipe is great when you need to use up a large bag of carrots or when you’re in the middle of a gray, sunless season. We often avoid pureed soups here because they’re not filling enough to make a meal. But this carrot and ginger soup: it’s worth taking the time for! It is excellent as an appetizer or for lunch with grilled cheese. That’s why it pays to peel and chop all those carrots.

Ingredients Carrot Ginger Soup

Carrot Ginger Soup is an easy pureed soup made with carrots, onions, and ginger. For maximum smoothness, it contains coconut milk for a velvety texture. It also adds a subtle fruitiness that complements the carrot perfectly. You can substitute the heavy cream for a richer soup, but we love the coconut flavor. What you need for this soup:

• yellow onion
• carrots
• ginger root
• olive oil
• vegetable soup
• garlic powder
• Cinammon
• Salt
• coconut milk

The biggest effort with this soup? Peel and dice the carrots! It takes some time to prepare, but once you’ve taken that first bite, we promise it’s worth it.

A quick way to peel ginger

Here’s a quick tip for peeling the ginger for this Carrot Ginger Soup. Instead of using a vegetable peeler, here’s a trick: use a spoon! Ginger root is notoriously difficult to peel with a vegetable peeler: it’s gnarled and the skin is tough and fibrous. But peeling with a spoon works like a charm. It sounds amazing until you try: but it’s the perfect tool for ginger root’s uneven surface.

Mixing: some tips!

Chop these vegetables, sauté and cook until the carrots are tender (see recipe below for full details). The only difficult thing about this Carrot Ginger Soup is the mixing! Here are some notes about the mix:

• Hand blenders are practical, but we like to use a stand mixer here. With a hand blender, we always end up with unmixed bits and a mess in our kitchen. It’s worth using a blender for this!
• Carefully transfer the hot soup with a ladle. Don’t pour it all into the blender or you’ll end up with a lot of hot splashes! A dipper is the way to go.

What to serve with ginger carrot soup

This carrot ginger soup isn’t a meal: just like most soup purees. They are intended as a first course or as a side dish that complements another. For this reason, we generally avoid purees, as we prefer to spend the cooking time with a main course. But this Carrot Ginger Soup is so delicious it’s definitely worth the prep time! Here are some ways to accessorize it and turn it into a meal:

More carrot recipes

Do you have more carrots? Here are some additional carrot recipes you can use:

This Carrot Ginger Soup recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free