Carrot Thick Soup with Chick-Peas – If it’s snowing

I know it’s spring, but now in Hungary it has been snowing heavily for a few days. So here is a soup which is ideal in this cold weather.

Carrot Thick Soup with Chick-Peas

Ingredients:

-          1 kg carrots (peeled and chopped)

-          4 tbsp. olive oil

-          Salt

-          1,5 tbsp. honey

-          Pinch of Chinese five-spice mixture

-          Pinch of cayenne pepper

-          3 cloves of garlic (mashed)

-          140 ml vegetable or chicken stock/water

To the top:

-          yoghurt

-          yellow chilli (chopped)

-          coriander (chopped)

-          chick-peas

-          pepper

1. Roast the carrots in the oil, sometimes stirring them. Add the honey, and then caramelize it. Mix the five-spice mixture, the cayenne pepper and the mashed garlic to the carrots, too. Pour the stock or water to the carrots, and cook until carrots are tender. Purée the soup with an immersion blender.
2. Put yoghurt, yellow chilli, coriander, and chick-peas on the top of the soup.