Roasted Garlic Soup

Ingredients

• 26 garlic cloves, unpeeled
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons 1/4 stick butter
• 2 medium onions, sliced (about 2 generous cups)
• 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme, or 1/2 teaspoon dried
• 18 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
• 4 cups chicken broth, low-sodium or vegetable broth
• 1/2 cup whipping cream
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
• 4 lemon wedges, do not skip the lemon!
• Optional variations and other garnishes- See instructions for how to incorporate
• 1 large russet potato, not peeled, cut into large chunks
• Toasted croutons, drizzled in oil, salt and pepper then baked at 350F degrees until golden
• 8 cloves fresh garlic, minced and sauteed just until fragrant in olive oil, dashed with pepper
• Parmesan Crisps recipe below

Instructions

• For the roast garlic, this could be done daily ahead:

• heat the kitchen appliance to 350F degrees. going away garlic in their peel, cut rock bottom portion off wherever the garlic attaches to the bottom. Place garlic in little glass baking dish. Drizzle with two tablespoons vegetable oil and add a splash every of salt and pepper. Toss to coat. cowl baking dish tightly with a lid or foil and bake till garlic is golden brown and tender, regarding forty five minutes. Cool. Squeeze garlic between your fingertips to unleash cloves. Transfer cloves to little bowl. (If creating the day before, place cooled garlic during a bag or coated dish and refrigerate till required.)

to arrange the soup:

• soften butter during a significant, giant pan over medium-high heat.

• Add the onions and thyme and cook till onions square measure clear, regarding five minutes.

• Add the roast garlic and eighteen raw garlic cloves and cook a handful of minutes to unleash a number of the raw garlic oils.

• Add chicken or vegetable broth; cowl and simmer till garlic is incredibly tender, regarding twenty minutes.

• operating in batches, puree soup during a liquidiser till swish.

• come back soup to pan, add cream and convey to an occasional simmer. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper.

• Divide the grated 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese among four bowls and ladle soup over.

• Squeeze juice of one lemon wedge into every bowl and serve. Cook's note: don't skip the lemon! you will not believe however the juice extremely brings out all the opposite flavors of this soup and while not it, your roast Garlic Soup may be a bit bland, believe it or not.

• If adding the nonmandatory russet potato for a chunky garlic soup, add the chunks of potato at identical time you add the chicken stock. Then cook till the potato is fork-tender. Continue with the formula as written once this time.

• Serve in individual bowls fancy with a lot of grated Parmesan, Parmesan Crips or cooked croutons, or the extra minced saute garlic. I extremely suggest adding ALL garnishments.

• For Parmesan Crisp garnish: Heat your kitchen appliance to 400F degrees, Pour a heaping tablespoon of grated Parmesan onto a polymer or parchment lined baking sheet and pat down simply a small amount. For color or additional flavor, you may sprinkle the cheese mound with herbs, black pepper or red pepper flakes. Repeat with the maximum amount Parmesan crisps as desired, spacing the spoonfuls a few 1/2 in. apart. Bake till golden and crisp. Since ovens vary, now are often anyplace from three to ten minutes (mine finished nearer to the ten minute mark). The cheese can bubble quite an bit, however simply keep cookery till the crisps darken. Cool, then employing a spatula, rigorously scrape the crips off the baking sheet and serve with the soup.

• If you prepare the roast garlic sooner than time, this soup is prepared in around half-hour. Otherwise, arrange for slightly below one 1/2 hours total time. The Parmesan Crisps are often ready whereas the soup is stewing, if you are as well as them.