A Delicious Carrot Soup That Is Totally Vegan

Are you a carnivore? Do you need to eat more vegetables? This tasty carrot soup is the perfect way to begin your vegan adventure. It's full of protein and vitamins. A vegan is someone that eats only vegetables and has eliminated dairy from their diet. Dairy includes eggs, milk, cheese, butter, and yes, ice cream.

This recipe is perfect if you’re looking for a way to take a break from eating meat. You’ll get your vegetables from the carrots and the protein from the cashews and the nutritional yeast that gives the soup a cheesy flavor instead of using cheese.

Carrots Are Not the Only Vegetable You Can Use For Soup

Tip: If you find that you don’t have a dried herb and you grow your own, you can take the leaves that have dried out and place them in the oven for a couple of minutes. Then use your mortal and pedestal to grind them. Now you have a freshly ground herb.

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Here’s the recipe for Creamy Carrot Cashew Soup, I medium onion chopped, 4 cloves garlic, minced, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 2 pounds carrots, peeled and cut into equal size pieces, 4 cups vegetable broth, ¾ cup raw cashews, ¾ cup water, ¼ teaspoon dried sage, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon black pepper, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast.

Cooking tip: The next time you make vegetable stock and there is some left over, let the stock cool completely and place in ice cube trays and freeze. Make sure you make sure there in the back of the freezer so you won’t mistake them for ice cubes

In a large pot on medium-high, sauté the onion and garlic in the oil. Cook for about 3 minutes. Add the asparagus and vegetable broth. Bring to a simmer, and cover, Cook for 20 minutes and then transfer the mixture to a food processor.

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Process until nearly smooth and put back on the stovetop. Puree the cashews and water in the food processor. Add this to the stop top mixture. Add I the sage, salt, and pepper. Lastly, add in the lemon juice and nutritional yeast for a flavorful pop. Serve with garlic bread. Serves 4.

You can find nutritional yeast in your health food store. It doesn’t have the most attractive name, but it does provide vitamin B12 and protein. It has a cheese like flavor. So instead of adding cheese to the soup, you add the nutritional yeast. The cashews are another source of protein. The soup can be served hot or room temperature and used as a dipping sauce for warm garlic bread. Serving it the next day really brings out the flavor of the lemon juice, cashews and garlic. Yum, good.

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