Enjoy a bowl of this delicious soup to warm up a chilly autumn day.
Servings: | 6 |
Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 large yellow onions, chopped
- 1 pound carrots, cut in chunks
- 2 cups low-fat chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons crystallized ginger, minced
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 ½ cups orange juice
- ½ cup fat-free half-and-half
- Chives for garnish
Instructions
- In a large pot, saute onions in olive oil until soft. Add carrots, broth, ginger and cinnamon. Simmer until carrots are thoroughly cooked, 30-40 minutes. Transfer to a blender or food processor and process until smooth. Stir in juice and half-and-half. Serve warm or chilled, garnished with snippets of chives.
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Nutrition Facts
Calories | 124 kcal |
Carbohydrate | 23 g |
Cholesterol | 1 mg |
Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
Protein | 3 g |
Saturated Fat | 1 g |
Sodium | 215 mg |
Sugars | 13 g |
Fat | 3 g |
Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Just the best Carrot soup! This was a big hit with all the family!
One of the best soups I have ever had. Thank You!
Made as it… Absolutely wonderful
I only used 1/2 of 1 onion. When it was done, it was completely overpowered by the orange juice taste, so I cooked another carrot in some broth, pureed it, and added it in to get the carrot flavor back again! Very tasty after tweaking!
i can only give 4 stars because i made some changes. first, i only made it with 1 onion and real cream with the juice of 1 orange, second, i added less cream cause it didnt need after the orange juice.this recipie is sooooooooooo good with those changes. I WILL MAKE THIS AGAIN
Yummy! Served it cold with garlic chives sprinkled on top. I did cut the OJ to 1/4 cup which I think helped to emphasize the other flavors.
I make a similar carrot soup to this but only 1 onion and cut orange juice (fresh) back to half a cup. Also add some grated orange rind before serving. This way the orange does not overpower the other flavors.
awful, family hated it and had to poor down the drain.
Two onions is too many for this recipe. Mine came out very oniony, overpowering the carrot taste. I suggest adding just one onion. Also, while the cinnamon adds a nice touch of flavor, the brown-tinted spice discolors the soup. Mine went from a deep hearty orange to an unappetizing ochre after the addition.
I don’t know what I could have done to make this recipe less then a 1 star. With the ingredients that we all like, but something went terribly wrong, It couldn’t have been any worse. A waste of good food.
I liked this recipe, but I did change a lot about it. Instead of cutting up my vegetables, I pureed them in my blender (I wanted a creamy soup without chunks). I didnt use actual chicken broth. Instead I used 1 1/2 cup of half and half. I replaced the chicken broth with chicken broth flavoring, using one teaspoon. The orange juice idea scared me, so I only added about 1/4 cup of orange juice. I also ended up adding more cinnamon. But this is a great recipe to follow if you know what you are doing and you love adding extras!
Wish I’d read the reviews first. My instincts said that the oj would overpower it and it did. How can so many rate this 4 stars, then change the recipe so much?
This is a tasty soup! I did make a few changes, however: 1 onion instead of 2, used a liberal amount of “pumpkin spice” instead of just cinnamon (pumpkin spice = cinnamon, nutmeg, and something else?), added one tsp. of salt, fresh ginger instead of candied, two dashes of cayenne pepper for spice, the juice of one fresh navel orange instead of OJ, and lastly, I used 1/4 cup real whipping cream and a little bit of skim milk. I will definitely make this again! Be sure to blend it well; the end result is better than at some of the top restaurants I’ve eaten in!
Good start but I also chose to elminate the OJ and right before serving I added fresh ground pepper.
I’m a huge fan of butternut squash type soups, and I found this to be a yummy, comfort-food recipe. Per other reviews, I only added 1 Tbsp of OJ, and that added plenty of orange flavor. I also reduced the half and half to 1/2 cup, and only used one yellow onion. I used regular 1/2 and 1/2, and fresh grated ginger. It was creamy and delicious! Make sure to puree in the blender well, so you get a creamy texture. I will most likely make this again.
I liked this soup well enough, but my family was not particularly impressed. I didn’t use OJ but rather peeled and quartered 2 seedless oranges and cooked them along with the carrots (removing their remnants before pureeing the soup). I also used 1/2 tsp. of cinnamon and 1/2 tsp. of nutmeg and heavy cream rather than Half and Half. I used chicken boullion cubes to make my broth (3 cubes to 2 cups of water) and fresh ginger, grated. I did use 2 onions, but think, perhaps, 1 or 1-1/2 even would have been better. Overall, a “successful” recipe but not the best this site (or my personal recipe box) has to offer.
I served this for a group of friends and it was a great hit. Even their little one year old loved it. It was a little too gingery for my taste though.
This was ok, not the best ever, but still quite good served its purpose. Mine came out more like spicy clumpy orange juice than carrot soup. I think maybe less juice more milk/broth and it may turn out better.(I subsituted low fat milk for the cream.)
Yummy recipe. I topped with a dollop of sour cream sprinkled with ground nutmeg. This is a great soup for those cold nights.
great teast!!
This was okay. I like the flavor the juice gives the soup, but it definitely overpowered the carrots and ginger. I agree with a previous review about this being ‘orange juice soup’. I might make this again, but not without changes to bring this back to ‘ginger carrot soup’.