I am not fond of soups but I prepare whenever the husband demands for it instead of tea or coffee during winter season. I learnt few simple soups for him where cabbage and tomato soups are the frequent visitors of my kitchen. I have tried this spring onion soup once and everybody at home liked it. but with no reason, I forgot about it. Last week, when we got spring onions from the market, the husband reminded me of this soup and prepared it again on a rainy day. We enjoyed it and hope you will also like it. You can see the slight difference in texture here that is because I used milk instead of heavy cream. Use heavy cream for smooth texture.
Basic Information:
Preparation and Cooking Time: 20 minutes + 10 minutes for cooling
Serves: 2
Ingredients:
Spring Onions – a bunch
Onion – 1/4 cup, finely chopped (optional)
Garlic – 2 big cloves, finely chopped
Olive Oil – 2 teaspoons
Heavy cream/Milk – 1/2 cup
Water/Vegetable stock – 1 cup
Salt – to taste
Crushed black pepper – 1 teaspoon
Method:
1) Wash and chop spring onions top and bottom part separately.
2) In a sauce pan, heat olive oil. Add chopped garlic and fry for few minutes.
3) Add chopped onion and bottom part of the spring onion. Saute till the onion gets translucent.
4) Add spring onion top part and saute well without changing the colour. Once it is done, allow it cool completely.
5) Blend the mixture to a smooth paste and transfer to sauce pan again.
6) Add vegetable stock or water and milk. Simmer it for 5-7 minutes. Add salt and pepper.
7) Pour in bowl and serve hot with croutons.
Note:
1) Make sure to fry the onions till the raw smell goes off.
2) Add cooked fresh or frozen peas while blending to get another variation.
Sending this recipe to Herbs and flowers – Spring Onions event hosted by Kaveri.
Wow!!soup looks so delicious and colorful,wonderful clicks.Is it a DSLR camera?
Love it Uma. Neat and clean picture 🙂
same here,know only tomato soup and learned some more from fellow blogger's recipes…i am also planning to make soup with sweet corn n sp.onion n u are here with wonderful sp.onion soup…looks so fresh n colorful…loved it !!
Wow wow,super comforting soup, never tried spring onions as soup this way,apart from garnishing in soups..Kalakitinga Uma,btw regarding ur q'n about fennel seeds, its give a different flavour while munching them also its helps for easy digest, sometimes dals tends be bit heavy especially urad dal,my mom used to say as though,thats the reason i usually add them..
That looks a very vibrant green. Wonder what it would taste like, guess I have to try it to find out 🙂
USMasala
lovely green colour…very yummy n flavorful!!
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Erivum Puliyum
Loved the beautiful green color of the soup and it sounds so appetizing.
Spring onion soup looks yummy with a beautiful color…
Nice soup recipe. I liked it.
What a tempting green color this soup has….very nice!
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Manju
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Looks so fresh and soothing…yummy looking soup and beautiful captures
simply awesome..
wow…
looks wonderful uma 🙂
Such a lovely color of soup. Never tried a soup only with spring onions…would love to try this healthy green soup.
This soup has such a beautiful color.. yummy clicks.
Do link it to my event dear
Herbs & Flowers: Spring Onions
Love the gorgeous color and the recipe is so flavorful:)
Yum yum and vibrantly coloured healthy soup Dear.Flavorfully fresh.Luv it
So comforting! What could be more comforting in this chilly weather?
Such a lovely & pleasing color..A comforting soup 😉
Prathima Rao
Prats Corner
woww lovely colour,never tried spring onion soup..as usual nice clicks!!
Gorgeous,love the color and flavor..yum
what a wonderful idea dear, soup looks yummy, love the color..
wow love the last pic….sounds amazing….will try it
Simply fantastic, love the vibrant color and the beautiful clicks.
Oh greattt soup and lovely color.
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I've never heard of spring onion soup… looks great…
what a lovely and colourful soup dear…
Looks super yummy….lovely color
Great photo
so tasty n fullfilling…innovative recipe uma..
Tasty Appetite
Hi, Dropped by while surfing. This is a yummy looking soup.And healthy too. Good presentation and excellent photographs.And I love the Green color !
Woww.. mouth watering here .. very healthy and delicious recipe.. looks yummy !!
Mmm, nothing better than a good, soul-warming soup to cure the winter blues. Your pictures are beautiful, and this recipe looks so wonderful. Love the flavors, I bet they melt so well to create on delicious flavor explosion! Spring onions are a favorite flavor in my house, so I'm sure this would be a hit.
Will definitely be adding this to the list of recipes I must make.
Lovely soup and the colour is so refreshing..:)
Reva
This looks so good. I don't eat dairy, but I'm going to try this using almond milk.
Just tried this recipe but replaced the Spring Onion with the invasive species Allium triquestrum. Delicious. A tasty way to use weeds. Thanks.