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Sunchoke Soup with Bacon Hash



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.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Canadian
Servings: 8 cups
Author: Valerie Lugonja inspired by Chef Christopher Chafe at Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge

Ingredients

  • 1/4 Spanish onion or 50g , minced
  • 3 cloves of garlic , minced
  • 15 g whole butter
  • 650 g fresh peeled Sunchoke (Jerusalem artichokes)
  • 500 g Chicken stock
  • 5 g salt
  • 200 mlL whole milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon

Ingredients for Bacon Hash:

  • 100 g yellow potato peeled , and diced in very small cubes (brunoise)
  • 150 g thick 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

Notes

Add the lemon zest and juice to the soup just before adding the cream; add these ingredients, and reseason just before serving.