Potato and sweet potato soup with melons
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ingredients
1 pk large shallot 4 pk medium potato 250 g grated zucchini with skin 1 tbsp dried garlic 1 tsp ground red pepper 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp capia olive oil salt rosemary and dried thyme
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Occasionally, a weekend agenda other than grocery shopping comes up. That’s when we draw from the pantry and fridge stock. At best, I don’t have to cook because I have something good frozen. This soup was meant for Sunday. Even though it was summer, it had cooled down to a spring-like 19 C° outside and the stock in the pantry suddenly turned into warming soup. A tasty, thick brew full of garlic and onions, good seasonings of home-grown herbs, was eaten with just-cooled sourdough bread.
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MELENCE, how to make them quickly? In the title, melences are mentioned. It’s a simple pasta, made in a few minutes. Their production is traditional in our Upper Nitra region and in our family. You put an egg (or even two) in a bowl, a pinch of salt. We sprinkle semi-coarse flour or semolina.
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Exactly as much as will soak/fit into the eggs. The dough should be thick, stiff. It will be grated on a carrot grater. Grate fresh directly into the flour so it doesn’t stick.
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From the flour, remove them with a sieve to paper and let them dry, or use them right away in the finished soup. When dried, they will keep in the jar for a couple of weeks. You can also put them in the freezer in the jar dried out.
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Fry finely chopped shallots in hot oil. Add the thyme and the diced potatoes.
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Preheat, they will stick, so keep stirring and add the minced paprika and garlic. Stir so that the peppers colour the potatoes and heat through.
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Pour in water, add cumin and rosemary and bring to a boil.
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When the potatoes are soft, add the melence. Boil for two minutes and add the zucchini. Remove from heat. While the soup cools to an edible temperature, the zucchini will “run out.”
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At the end, before the melons, you can add a tablespoon of miso paste.
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TIP: I use mostly dried organic chive garlic in soups for my kids. Its flavor is stable, it is not pungent, and it helps children ( and not only them) maintain stronger immunity.
