Apple And Celery Soup Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 sm Head of fresh celery
• 2 lrg Cooking apples
• 1 ounce Butter
• 60 fl ounce Stock
• 2 med Onions
• peeled and diced Salt and milled pepper Lowfat milk to finish Minced parsley and browned flaked almonds to garnish
• 1 tsp Soft brown sugar

Instructions

1. In a large saucepan sweat off the diced onion in the butter.
2. Wash, trim and dice the celery, add in to the onion and continue on a low heat.
3. Remove and bruises from the apples and grate them into your pan, discarding the core.
4. Cook for a further 10 min before adding the stock, seasoning and sugar beware too much salt if you are using a stock cube.
5. Bring to the boil, then simmer, lid on, for 30 min - do not over cook or possibly the celery flavour becomes jaded and the colours dull.
6. Allow to cold a little before liquidising thoroughly.
7. Pass through a large mesh sieve to ensure there are no stringy threads of celery remaining.
8. Check seasoning and consistency, adding a little lowfat milk if needed.
9. Serve in warmed bowls, sprinkled with parsley and the browned almond flakes.