Soup with Crabmeat and Green Peppercorns

Vegetable soup need not be a boring dish. With the addition of a little crab meat and some green peppercorns, it can be transformed into a taste sensation. Stock your larder with a few cans of really good stuff like crabmeat, green peppercorns, oysters and assorted beans. The cans keep indefinitely, always at the ready to spruce up any old dish.

I always have frozen stock in my freezer from leftover chicken, corned beef and/or bone broth in snaplock bags. Whenever you have some vegetables that are just about to slip away, pop them into a pot with the stock, a bay leaf, some peppercorns and simmer away until they are soft. Blend them up in your food processor and season to taste. This is where you can add the pantry items to lift this dish out of the ho-hum section.

Grow a few herbs like parsley and chives for healthy additions to your meals as well. They're healthy and tasty as well.

You could add salmon or tuna instead of the crab. If you wanted to go vegan, you could plant a dollop of hummus in the centre of this, sprinkle with parsley and lemon juice and you're off.

This soup can be frozen in snap lock bags, too. So, it makes a great meal that can be heated up in minutes, a can or two opened and before you know it, you're sitting down to a homecooked meal that's actually good for you. Try adding some beans to this as well as some cream for another variation.

A light dish that's great for shift workers who come home hungry at odd hours and need some sustenance but nothing too heavy. This fits the bill.

Recipe

Ingredients

Sweet Potato | 1 large, peeled and diced

Onion | 1 small, peeled and diced

Chicken stock | 1 litre

Salt & Pepper | to taste

Carrot | 1 small, peeled and diced

Bay Leaf | 1

Celery | 2 sticks, diced

Garlic | 1 clove, crushed

Method

Simmer all the ingredients in a pot until tender. Blend in a food processor until smooth. Taste for seasoning. Serve in a soup bowl and add desired ingredients like crab meat, parsley and lemon juice.

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