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September 16, 2025
Creamy Carrot Soup Recipe
The BEST technique to eat carrots!! The humble carrot makes an incredible creamy carrot soup – however whenever you sneak bacon in, it makes it over-the-top scrumptious!
It is a terrific carrot recipe to function a meal. Thick and creamy, savoury and candy, Carrot Soup is fast to make, wholesome, freezes brilliantly, and the one factor it wants is scorching crusty bread for dunking. And I like the color!
Creamy Carrot Soup is the BEST technique to eat carrots!
When the tip of the week rolls spherical and the cabinets are fairly naked, I can nonetheless financial institution on having carrots, onion and garlic.
And there are a handful of terrific meals that I can consider making with these 3 issues – Carrot Pilaf, sautéed carrot in garlic butter tossed via pasta, a golden fluffy omelette full of buttery julienned carrots, and this creamy carrot soup.
Clocking in at simply 351 energy for a giant bowl, Carrot Soup is creamy deliciousness that’s stuffed with vitamin!
Bacon is the key ingredient!
Although this creamy carrot soup does have a wee bit extra in it than simply carrots, onion and garlic, they’re largely pantry necessities with the “different” issues being optionally available.
Like – bacon. 🙂 Crisp up some bacon within the pot earlier than including all of the carrot soup stuff, and it makes essentially the most superb flavour base ever. It actually takes the common-or-garden carrot soup to a different stage.
So I’m actually hoping you’ve some bacon stashed away within the freezer (and if not – why not?!😉)
Well being advantages of carrot
As rabbits effectively know, carrots are GOOD for you!! Right here’s why:
- Excessive in antioxidants that are necessary for good well being
- Excessive in vitamin A – for common effectively being and particularly, imaginative and prescient and immunity
- Wealthy in different nutritional vitamins, minerals and fibre
Carrot Soup appears to be like just about like Pumpkin Soup. In reality, you can interchange the 2 images and I wouldn’t be capable to inform the distinction (errr, effectively aside from the truth that I took these images so I do know which is which 😂)
There are additionally similarities within the flavour. Naturally candy with undertones of savoury, and the identical thick, creamy texture – even in case you don’t use cream. I do use a little bit of cream on this recipe – but it surely’s optionally available. It provides an additional contact of richness that may be substituted with a dollop of butter – or overlooked.
After I’m attempting to be “wholesome”, I go away the cream out of the soup then drizzle simply 1 teaspoon on the floor. It methods my easy thoughts into pondering there’s extra cream in it than there truly is!
Additionally – don’t overlook Soup Dunkers. At all times a vital a part of a soup consuming expertise! Listed below are a couple of of my favourites.
Soup Dunkers
– Johnsat x
Creamy Carrot Soup
Watch tips on how to make it
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil or butter
- 4 slices streaky bacon (~120g/4oz)
- 1 onion , chopped
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 5 large carrots , cut into 1.5 cm / 3/5″ chunks
- 1 litre / 1 quart vegetable or chicken broth (4 cups)
- 1/2 cup / 125 ml cream
- 3/4 cup / 185ml milk (any fat %)
- Salt and pepper
- Fresh thyme or chopped parsley
- Cream , for swirling
- Crusty bread
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large pot over medium high heat. Add bacon and cook until golden. Remove from pot, cool then chop.
- Add onion and garlic into the bacon drippings. Cook for 2 minutes until onion is translucent but not browned.
- Add carrots and stir well to coat the carrot in the oil.
- Add broth, then stir. Cover with lid, adjust heat so it is simmering energetically (about medium). Cook for 20 – 25 minutes until carrot is very soft.
- Remove lid, turn heat off. Use a stick blender to puree the carrot (or cool slightly and do in blender).
- Add cream, milk, salt and pepper to taste. Stir. Adjust thickness with milk (or water), if desired.
- Ladle soup into bowls. Garnish with swirls of cream, bacon and parsley or thyme if desired. Serve with crusty bread.
Notes
1. If you skip the bacon, I would suggest adding something else to compensate for loss of flavour. Suggestions: 1 tsp of ground coriander or other spice of choice (stir into soup) or 2 tsp finely chopped ginger (saute with onion and garlic).
2. Nutrition per serving, assuming 4 servings. If you skip the bacon, it reduces to 200 calories. If you also skip the cream, it reduces to 99 calories.
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