The recipe works just as well cooked on a stove-top, but the added smokiness that comes from cooking it on a fire is delicious....
Rustic Vegetable Soup (cooked on a fire)
Ingredients:
- butter
- 1 large onion
- 4 rashers of bacon, thinly sliced
- 1/2 butternut (confession – I did use a ready peeled & cleaned packet)
- 8 baby marrows
- 1 small cauliflower
- 2 large potatoes
- 3 carrots
- 3 cloves garlic
- 6 mushrooms, sliced
- 3 heaped tsps chicken stock powder, dissolved in some boiling water
- Kettleful of boiling water
- 1 glass of white wine
- Salt & freshly ground pepper
How to:
- Chop all the vegetables quite finely – this is a rustic soup, and there’s no blender when camping!
- Heat a little butter in a cast iron pot over small flames
- Fry the onion, bacon and garlic for a few minutes
- Add the mushrooms, stir through, then add the rest of the vegetables
- Stir thoroughly to mix, then add the chicken stock and enough boiling water to cover the vegetables
- Keep the fire burning gently, sit back and have a glass of wine, and enjoy the fire while the soup cooks
- Top up the soup pot as the liquid cooks away
- Check the soup for seasoning and add a glass of white wine (for a little acidity – delicious!)
- Mash the vegetables in the soup with a wooden spoon, to get a lovely texture
- Serve under the trees, and enjoy while sitting around the fire
- Enjoy with a freshly baked bread.
by: firedupcookingsa.