Blue and Green Soup with Gluten Free Cheese Scones
That got you thinking didn't it? Blue and Green? Well there is a little bit of Danish Blue in the predominantly Green vegetable soup. However, this is really just another version of what Fiona at London Unattached described so well as 'Stone' Soup. You can read all about it on her blog HERE.
The No Waste Food Challenge run by Kate at Turquoise Lemons also asked us to use up left over Fennel. Now, I love fennel and rarely have any left over, but it was a good excuse to go and buy some so I have included at little of it in this recipe.
Blue and Green Soup
1 head broccoli chopped
2 Romaine lettuces, chopped
The stalky ends of a bulb of fennel chopped
1 large onion chopped
1 tsp vegetable oil
1 litre of vegetable stock
200ml milk
30g of Danish Blue cheese crumbled
Put the oil in the pan at a medium heat, add the onion and saute for about 5 minutes until soft. Add the chopped broccoli.
The fennel,
and the chopped lettuce
While the soup was cooking, I thought I'd make something nice to have with them. I had bought some gluten free ingredients for the guest who was expected last weekend but was unable to come. So I thought I would 'use them up' making some scones.
Gluten Free Special Scones
225g White self-raising Gluten and Wheat Free flour
1 level tsp gluten free baking powder
50g Pure Sunflower dairy free margarine
1/2 tsp Coleman's mustard powder
50g grated cheese
1 egg
milk or natural yogurt
Heat the oven to 220C and lightly grease a baking sheet
Put the flour and baking powder in a bowl and add the margarine, rub it in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the mustard powder and the grated cheese.
Turn onto a lightly floured table and pat out to about 1.25 (1/2 inch) thickness.
Cut into rounds, I made my big as we were having them as 'rolls' with our soup. Place spaced out on the baking sheet and brush the tops with milk or yogurt and sprinkle with a little more cheese.
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| I'm showing you this so you can see how thick they are cut. |
Bake in the oven for about 10-15 minutes (depending on how big you made them) until they are pale golden brown. Remove and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Not only was the soup good, although dominated by the broccoli and blue cheese flavours, but the scones were excellent. A little more chewy in texture than the wheat flour ones, but definitely good and a very acceptable substitute. They could also be adapted to be dairy free by using substitutes for the milk/yogurt and cheese.
I'm entering this recipe for Bookmarked Recipes run by Jac at Tinned Tomatoes and founded by Ruth from Ruth's Kitchen Experiments
Labels: Bookmarked Recipes, Broccoli, cheese, dairy free, Fennel, gluten free, lettuce, No Waste Food Challenge, Scones, Soup, Tinned Tomatoes, Turquoise Lemons
posted by Janice @ 14:05
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