Wild Rice-Cranberry Soup

Good Morning loves!

I figured my first recipe post here on The Scoop on Soup should be my favorite soup, so here it goes...

I've had this recipe for years, but I didn't make it until last Fall. I'm still kicking myself for all the years I missed out on this soup because I was too lazy to make it. Because, really it didn't take all that much effort.


Wild Rice-Cranberry Soup

Not the prettiest soup, but it's so good!

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 carrot, finely chopped

1 celery stalk, finely chopped

1/2 cup finely chopped onion

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

3 cups vegetable stock

1.5 cups cooked wild rice*

1/2 cup dried cranberries

1 cup milk or half-and-half

2 tablespoons dry sherry (optional)

Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

*To cook wild rice: Bring 2 cups water, 1/2 cup rinsed wild rice, and 1/2 teaspoon salt to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Reduce heat ; cover and simmer for 45-55 minutes. Drain well.

1. Melt the butter in a dutch oven (I don't have a dutch oven, so I just melted mine in a deep pot) over medium heat. 
2. Add carrot, celery and onion, stirring occasionally, until carrot is tender. About 8 minutes. (I recommend adding the onion about half way through otherwise it tends to burn)
3. Add the flour and stir until smooth.
4. Gradually add the vegetable stock and stir until soup is thickened, about 5 minutes.
5. Stir in the rice and cranberries.
6. Reduce heat; cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the cranberries are softened and plumped, about 15 minutes.
7. Stir in all the remaining ingredients and stir occasionally until warmed through.

This soup will keep for 3 days in the fridge. It will get really chunky in the fridge, but it thins out again as soon as your heat it up. If you want it thinner just add a little more milk when you are reheating it.

Recipe taken & slightly adapted from "A Beautiful Bowl of Soup" by Paulette Mitchell

(That's the soup on the cover!)

If you make it, I'd love to know what you think of it!

xoxo