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Portuguese-style vegetable & cabbage soup

A smooth carrot, potato and courgette base with ribbons of tender cabbage.

Serves
4 · soup and bread
From scratch
55 min
Bimby
Main cooking
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Ingredients

Metric quantities · weights after peeling and trimming unless stated

  • 100 g onions, quartered
  • 200 g carrots, 1 cm pieces
  • 200 g potatoes, peeled, 1 cm dice
  • 150 g courgettes, diced
  • 150 g cabbage, finely shredded, tough ribs removed
  • 20 ml olive oil
  • 650 ml low-salt vegetable stock, prepared
  • 2 g salt
  • 320 g bread

Method

  1. Start the base

    Bimby TM7

    Chop onion 5 sec / speed 5. Scrape down, add oil and cook 5 min / 100°C / speed 1.

  2. Cook the vegetables

    Bimby TM7

    Add carrots, potato, courgette and stock. Cook 22 min / 100°C / speed 1, until all vegetables crush easily.

  3. Blend the base

    Bimby TM7

    Turn heating off. Fit lid and cap correctly. Blend 30 sec / speed 5, then 30 sec / speed 8 if the screen permits. Wait for the blades and lock to release.

  4. Add the cabbage

    Bimby TM7

    Add cabbage and salt, keeping below the maximum fill mark. Cook 10 min / 100°C / reverse / speed 1, until cabbage is tender; extend in 3-minute intervals if necessary. Serve with bread.

Kitchen notes

Makes four soup bowls; the bread turns this into a light meal. For larger appetites add a separate sandwich or another course. Do not multiply the batch in the Bimby bowl: stay below its 2.2 litre maximum and make separate batches. Keep lid vents clear and fit the lid cap correctly. Heat soups at no more than 100°C and speed 2; stop if they rise towards the lid. Blend only after cooking, with heating off, following the screen prompts. Stove alternative: soften the aromatics in a saucepan, simmer the remaining vegetables and stock until tender, then use a hand blender with its head submerged. This is a vegetable soup, not traditional caldo verde. Contains wheat in the bread.

Original recipe development draft; not yet kitchen-tested. Timings and manual Bimby settings are starting points: check texture and doneness. These are not official Guided Cooking programmes.

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