Carrot & Coriander Soup - Busy Bees Sensational Soups

Busy Bees Childcare launched a competition earlier on this year asking their nursery teams and their children to enter their competition for Sensational Soup. All the winning entries were then placed together in a fabulous little book to share.

We have soup a couple of times a week at home as I find it’s a great way to get vegetables down my kids. With each recipe is a fabulous bread or biscuit recipe to accompany the soup. I rather love the idea of Tomato Spiral Rolls with the Stone soup. Being gluten free though we’re still tweaking those recipes to work for us but early results are tasty!

One of the favourite soups in our house is Carrot & Coriander Soup. We made it a little chunkier then the one in the book and lowered the quantity’s a little but we had to share this easy recipe with you!

Creamy Carrot & Coriander Soup

Ingredients

500g Carrots – peeled & sliced

2 Celery Sticks – sliced

1 Medium Onion – sliced & diced.

500g Potatoes – peeled & cubed (about 2 medium/large)

Small bunch of Coriander – chopped

1 ½ litres of stock

1tsp Sunflower Spread

100ml Cream

Method

Melt the sunflower spread on medium heat and add carrots, celery & onion. Turn down to a low heat and sweat the vegetables for about 10minutes until then begin to soften.

Add the stock and potatoes and cook for a further 20 minutes. Then blend.

You can then stir in the cream & add fresh chopped coriander on top to taste. We also add some black pepper corns.

The recipes in the book are superb although they make a little more than needed for a family of four so we did a little adjusting.

Busy Bee Childcare who are throughout the country, for example find day care in Kettering and you have some gorgeous choices, have over 300 nurseries across the country with over 98% graded as outstanding or good by Ofsted. Look at their website for even more healthier recipes to practice at home with you kids. You can find these here.