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Cucumber Soup

October 28, 2009 by christine

I did it, substituted the banana in my smoothie this morning for a carrot and it did not taste that much different. It was not as sweet and thicker, but still had a nice berry flavor thanks to the blueberries and raspberries. Encouraging and something I’ll probably be doing from now on, keeping the bananas in the freezer for raw desserts.

Currently I have 3 monster cucumbers in my fridge that I need to use up, so I started looking for a raw soup recipe for them. Cucumbers are a great veggie … well all are great. A large cucumber with skin only has about 45 calories, but it a good source of vitamins C and K. They’re also one of my favorite snacks dipped in a tasty dressing. I did not have much luck finding a recipe that looked good, so I concocted one from a few different recipes.

Recipe: Creamy Cucumber Soup

Summary: Raw cucumber based soup with dill and miso

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 2 medium cucumbers (or 1 large in my case), sliced
  • 2 stalks celery, chopped
  • 2 tbsp. lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • 2 tbsp. white miso
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1/2 tsp. pink salt
  • 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
  • 1 medium avocado
  • 2 dried or fresh dill

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients in blender and blend to a smooth puree.

cucumbersoup

I liked the strong dill flavor and think it’s good either chilled or warm, my husband preferred it to be chilled. I notice many cucumber and zucchini soup recipes call to peel the skin off first, I left it on and found no problems with the texture and flavor. After reading that the skin on many fruits and veggies contain much of the nutrients, I have a problem with removing it and won’t most of the time when the recipe calls for it unless it’s a tough squash.

Filed Under: General, Recipes, Soups Tagged With: cucumber, veganmofo 2009

Comments

  1. Jessica says

    October 29, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    This looks really good! I just got some organic Himalayan pink sea salt from Sustainable Sourcing https://secure.sustainablesourcing.com and I think I’ll try it out in this recipe. Thanks for sharing!

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