This soup is bright with sunchoke flavour and scented with smoke. The perfect comfort on a cold winter day. Yield: 8 cups or 4 hearty bowls of soup.
Course
Soup
Cuisine
Canadian
Prep Time10minutes
Cook Time20minutes
Total Time30minutes
Servings8cups
AuthorValerie Lugonja inspired by Chef Christopher Chafe at Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge
Ingredients
1/4Spanish onion or 50g, minced
3clovesof garlic, minced
15gwhole butter
650gfresh peeled Sunchoke(Jerusalem artichokes)
500gChicken stock
5gsalt
200mlL whole milk
1/2teaspoonsmoked paprika
Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon
Ingredients for Bacon Hash:
100gyellow potato peeled, and diced in very small cubes (brunoise)
150gthick bacon, sliced into lardons
Instructions
Instructions for Bacon Hash:
In a sauce pan on low heat cook bacon until fat has leached out and bacon becomes crispy; remove bacon
Add potatoes and cook in bacon fat until the potatoes become crispy; toss with bacon and season to taste
Instructions for Soup:
Peel sunchokes and keep in water so they do not discolor
Sweat onions, garlic, butter on low heat until softened and translucent (no color)
Add 650g peeled sunchokes (discard soaking water) and chicken stock with 5 g salt; simmer on medium heat until tender (approximately 40 minutes)
Moments before serving, add juice and zest of 1/2 lemon and smoked paprika; add in milk; to combine well and adjust final seasoning with salt and pepper
Thermomix Instructions for Soup:
No need to peel sunchokes, just wash or scrub clean
Scale onions and garlic into TM bowl; chop for 1 second on Turbo
Using a spatula, scrape ingredients from bowl toward the blades
Scale in butter; saute for 2 minutes at 100C, speed 2
Scale 650g sunchokes into TM bowl
Scale in chicken stock adding 5 g salt; cook for 20 minutes at Varoma, speed 2 (at about 15 minutes, sunchokes will start to breakdown)
Puree until silky smooth for 30 seconds going from 0-10 in 20 seconds and leave on 10 for remaining 10 seconds or Turbo for 10 seconds three times
Moments before serving, add juice and zest of 1/2 lemon and smoked paprika; scale in milk; stir for 5 seconds at speed 3-4 and adjust final seasoning with salt and pepper
Putting it all together:
Place equal portions of bacon hash into the bottom of each soup bowl; gently pour soup over top
Server immediately
Recipe Notes
Add the lemon zest and juice to the soup just before adding the cream; add these ingredients, and reseason just before serving.