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Ground elder-Japanese knotweed soup

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Course: Soup
Keyword: spring
Servings: 2 people

Equipment

  • 1 pot
  • 1 bowl
  • 1 cutting board
  • oven or airfryer
  • 1 Blender
  • 1 Knife
  • 1 grater
  • 1 pan optinal
  • 1 Peeler

Ingredients

  • 200 grams sweet potetoes
  • 10 grams ginger
  • 40 grams onion red or yellow
  • 130 grams Japanese knotweed
  • 15 grams ground elder
  • 50 grams red lentils
  • 10 grams sorrel optional
  • olive oil
  • 1 tsp tumeric
  • 1/2 tsp cumin
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp cynann
  • salt
  • pepper
  • St. George mushrooms optional
  • cashwnuts optional

Instructions

  • Peel sweet potatoes and cut them into cubes.
  • Coat sweet potatoes in olive oil (1 tsp), salt them, and bake in the air fryer for 10 minutes at a temperature of 200℃.
  • Cut the onion and grate the ginger.
  • Clean the ground elder and separate the leaves from the stems.
  • Clean the knotweed and cut it into cubes.
  • Fry the onion and ginger with a spoon of olive oil in the cooking pot for about 3 minutes.
  • Add water, knotweed, ground elder and red lentils, cook until lentils are soft.
  • Transfer the contents of the pot into a blender, add sweet potatoes, sorrel (optional), and spices and blend until smooth.

Prepare garnish

  • Roast cashew nuts in a pan.
  • Clean St. George mushrooms and cut into clubes.
  • Put olive oil into the pan and heat.
  • Fry St. George mushrooms until golden-brown.
  • Serve the soup in a bowl and add the garnish on top.

Notes

We suggested two types of garnish: cashew nuts or mushrooms. Feel fry to experiment yourself.