Friday, July 12, 2013

Zucchini and turkey soup with pesto


This is a light and flavorful soup recipe for summer days. With lots of cubed veggies (especially zucchini), delicate turkey meat and a tablespoon of basil pesto added right in the serving plate. :)
Recipe adapted from here

Last year: Baked tomato-stuffed peppers with thyme (vegan).
Two years ago: baby making and no cooking :).





Ingredients (serves 4):
  • 2 zucchini
  • 2 yellow onions
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 2 small carrots
  • 1 leek (green part only)
  • 1 wedge of celery root
  • 1 turkey breast (150 g)
  • 1,3 liters vegetable or chicken stock
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 4 teaspoons of basil pesto to serve

Get the veggies:


Chop up the onions and fry them in the olive oil. When golden, add the sliced leek:

Fry it for 5 minutes, stirring often. After that add the soup stock and the cubed meat:

Let it boil, covered, on low heat, until you chop up the bell pepper, celery, carrots and zucchinis:

Add the cubed vegetables as well and simmer the whole thing for 10 more minutes. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper and it's done.

Transfer to soup bowls, add a tablespoon of pesto to each serving and dig in! :)

2 comments:

  1. I love that this soup uses zucchini. There's so much of it available at the moment and I keep running out of ideas of what to do with it.

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    1. Thanks Gerlinde for the stop and the comment. You could try fried or stuffed zucchinis, zucchini pastas and so on, and last but not least, a sweet zucchini bread :)

      Have a nice week ahead,
      Miriam.

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