Superb Yellow Pepper Soup Recipes

YELLOW BELL PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with heavy-duty foil. Toss bell peppers with oil in large bowl. Arrange in single layer on baking sheets. Roast until peppers are tender and beginning to brown, stirring occasionally, about 50 minutes.
• Transfer peppers to heavy large saucepan. Add 4 1/2 cups broth. Boil 8 minutes to blend flavors. Cool slightly. Working in batches, puree mixture in blender. Return to saucepan. Mix in half and half and sugar. Thin soup with more broth if desired. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; chill. Rewarm over medium heat before continuing.)
• Spoon soup into bowls. Garnish with parsley sprigs and serve.

ROASTED YELLOW PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• In a 3-quart saucepan heat olive oil. Add carrots and onions and cook until soft. Add peppers and cook 2 minutes more. Add potatoes and stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are cooked through and starting to fall apart, about 25 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Use a stick blender, food processor or blender to puree soup. If necessary, return to pot and reheat. Garnish each portion with 1 teaspoon of pesto. Serve immediately.

YELLOW BELL PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil and butter in a Dutch oven; sauté the peppers, onion, potato and garlic for about five minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add broth, bay leaf, salt and pepper, bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
• Discard bay leaf.
• Cool slightly; puree in batches in blender.
• Return to pan.
• Stir in buttermilk, heat through.
• Serve hot or cold; garnish with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt and a pinch of chives, if desired.

ROASTED YELLOW PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place peppers on oiled cookie sheet and place in oven. Roast peppers, turning occasionally, for 20 to 30 minutes, until the skins puffs up and is mostly blackened. Place in bowl and cover with plastic wrap to sweat.
• While peppers are roasting, melt butter over low heat and cook onion gently with salt, pepper, and cumin for 1015 minutes, stirring occasionally, until translucent. Add garlic and cook until aroma is released. Sprinkle flour over and cook, stirring, another 5 minutes. Stir in stock or water and bring to the simmer. Turn off heat and set a food mill fitted with fine sieve over pot.
• Unwrap the bowl of peppers; they should be very soft. Pull out and discard cores. Place contents of bowl, juice and all, into food mill and pass peppers through. Remove mill from pot and clean out pepper skins and seeds by rotating blade backwards. Whisk contents of pot thoroughly and simmer 10 minutes for the flavors to come together. Whisk in milk, pass through food mill again into clean pot, heat gently and serve.

YELLOW PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the peppers, leek, garlic, salt and turmeric, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables begin to soften, about 10 minutes.
• Tie the parsley, thyme, and bay leaf together with kitchen twine. Add the potato, water, and herb bundle and bring to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer, uncovered, until the potato is very tender, about 20 minutes.
• Discard the herb bundle. Puree the soup in small batches in a blender (keep the lid cracked to allow steam to escape), or in the pot with an immersion blender, until smooth. Return to the pot and reheat. Stir in the vermouth, and season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Serve warm.

YELLOW PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Cook (sweat) onion, celery, carrot and garlic in olive oil until soft (about 10 minutes).
• Bring stock to a boil.
• Add peppers, potatoes, salt, chipotle and boiling stock.
• Simmer for 20 minutes or until potatoes are soft.
• Puree in food processor or use an immersion blender.
• Serve in bowls with a sprinkle of parmesan and olive oil.
• For a lower fat version use no fat parmesan cheese or omit. Do not use olive oil.
• For Vegetarian do not use chicken broth. Use vegetable broth. For Vegan omit cheese also or use a vegan sub.