Vegan Baked Spud Soup Amongst Mushroom Bacon

May 16, 2015

We had a spare Sabbatum afternoon together with therefore decided nosotros lastly had the fourth dimension to commit to 1 of the overly complicated recipes that mapo tofu or the creamy ramen, but they both required fancier ingredients than nosotros could lay our hands on at brusk notice. Instead, nosotros went for this wintery roasted tater together with cauliflower soup, amongst the added bonus of roughly mushroom bacon.

This is however a time-consuming together with complicated recipe - I'd estimate that nosotros spent to a greater extent than than 2 hours putting everything together together with nosotros dramatically simplified the master copy (no stove-top smoking, lots of stick-blending together with no soup straining). The mushroom bacon could live made good ahead of time, although you've got a skilful hr to create the laborious mushroom slicing piece the veggies are roasting, together with the oven's already on so y'all tin popular them straightaway in. 

I'd country the pay-off was but almost worth it - the tater together with cauliflower soup was rich together with had a cheesy texture cheers to the blended upwards cashews together with cauliflower. It was quite mildly flavoured - y'all could boost the chipotle/adobo levels if y'all wanted to a greater extent than of a kick, but otherwise but flavor it heavily to brand certain it doesn't plough out bland.

The mushroom bacon actually kicks things upwards a notch too. I'd likely upwards the liquid fume inward the marinade adjacent fourth dimension together with endeavor to discovery bigger mushrooms to avoid the fiddliness of chopping together with flipping hundreds of footling mushroom slices, but the recipe inward full general is a winner. Keep inward heed that the mushrooms shrink an awful lot, so y'all powerfulness equally good create a large batch - nosotros started amongst 3 total oven trays together with injure upwards able to crush everything onto a unmarried tray for the concluding roast.

I was really impressed yesteryear this recipe - we'll definitely live going through the Serious Eats vegan archives in 1 lawsuit again when we've got an afternoon spare.

Crispy mushroom bacon 

(based on this recipe from Serious Eats)

500g Swiss brownish mushrooms

spray oil

tabular array salt together with pepper

four teaspoons maple syrup

1/4 teaspoon sugar

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke

 

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.

Slice the mushrooms actually finely, but a twain of millimetres thick.

Line a twain of baking trays amongst baking newspaper together with grease it upwards amongst spray oil. Lay out the mushrooms (we had to create things inward a twain of batches - in that place was likewise much for fifty-fifty 2 total trays). 

Generously flavor amongst tabular array salt together with pepper together with popular them inward the oven. After 20-25 minutes, accept them out together with flip each mushroom piece over. Give them roughly other low-cal spray amongst stone oil together with roughly to a greater extent than tabular array salt together with pepper together with topographic point them dorsum inward for roughly other 25 minutes. You desire them to dry out out together with crisp upwards - don't live afraid to become for longer than 25 minutes if y'all take away to.

While the mushrooms are cooking, mix together the syrup, garlic powder, paprika together with liquid fume inward a large bowl. Once the mushrooms are ready, stir them all through to coat them amongst the marinade together with lay them dorsum out on a baking tray (they'll cause got shrunk such that 3 tray loads volition at nowadays jibe on one!). 

Give them roughly other 5-10 minutes inward the oven to caramelise the sugars inward the marinade together with push clitoris them out when they're a chip crunchy together with a chip chewy.

Fully loaded vegan baked tater soup

(based on this recipe from Serious Eats)

1 caput of cauliflower, halved

2 large floury potatoes, scrubbed together with amongst a few holes poked inward them amongst a skewer

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

3 tablespoons kokosnoot oil

1 large leek, sliced finely

2 ribs celery, sliced finely

half-dozen greenish onions, sliced finely amongst white together with greenish parts kept separately

v cloves garlic, sliced

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

1 chipotle pepper inward adobo sauce, summation a bonus teaspoon of the adobo sauce

1 loving cup roasted cashews

1 litre almond milk

1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke

1 pocket-size bunch chives, sliced finely

1 caput broccoli, cutting into florets together with steamed (for serving)

water

tabular array salt together with pepper

Preheat the oven to 200°C together with roast the potatoes together with cauliflower for almost an hour, until they're really soft but non burnt (the cauliflower volition brownish upwards a lot, but that's okay). Set aside to cool.

In the meantime, estrus the kokosnoot stone oil inward a large saucepan together with add together inward the leek, celery, garlic together with the white parts of the greenish onions. Cook over low-medium estrus for 10-15 minutes, until everything is prissy together with soft but zilch is browning up. Stir through the paprika.

Combine the cashews amongst almost 1 loving cup of the almond milk, together with the chipotle together with adobo sauce, inward the spice grinder attachment of your nutrient processor (or a blender if that's your preference). Give it a skilful whizz, y'all desire it equally smoothen equally possible.

Pour the residue of the almond milk together with the liquid fume into the saucepan together with scoop inward the cashew paste, stirring everything together thoroughly. Whizz the soup mix upwards amongst a stick blender - y'all desire the leek together with onion bits to blend into the soup equally much equally possible.

Peel together with die the potatoes together with cutting the cauliflower into bite-sized chunks, discarding the stem. Throw the veggies into the soup mix inward batches, stick-blending equally y'all go. Add roughly H2O along the agency to function on things at the texture y'all desire - nosotros added almost a cup. 

Once you've blended everything together equally smoothly equally possible, stir through the chives, flavor amongst tabular array salt together with pepper together with add together inward almost a tertiary of your mushroom bacon. 

Serve, garnishing amongst roughly to a greater extent than mushroom bacon, the broccoli together with a sprinkling of the greenish parts of the greenish onions.