Kohlrabi-Zucchini soup

This is one of the many recipes that I have gotten from my friend Sara Eini. Sara’s recipes are very popular in our family, and I look forward to sharing many more of her recipes in the future.

This is a  relative “newcomer” – it is prepared much the same way as one prepares potato-leek soup – but, as the name indicates, it is based on kohlrabi and zucchini.

To this basic recipe, you can add more greens, for example celery leaves, or parsley, if you like. Before pureeing the soup, it is recommended to take out those cooked and wilted greens; you can always add some more fresh greens, chopped, after pureeing the soup. 

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 2 large kohlrabi 
• 2 light or dark-skinned zucchini unpeeled
• 1 onion
• 1 leek
• 2 cloves of garlic
• olive oil
• salt
• pepper
• fresh dill
• chicken soup stock (or chicken soup powder)
• optional: parsley leaves, celery leaves, carrot

Preparation:

1. In a large pot put some olive oil.
2. Peel the kohlrabi and cut into large pieces. Put in the pot.
3. Scrub the zucchini and cut off the ends. Place it in the pot.
4. Add the garlic to the pot.
5. Peel and cut the onion into pieces, and add to pot.
6. Using only the white part of the leek, slice it, soak in salted water for a while, to remove any impurities; when clean, rinse, drain, and put into the soup pot with the other ingredients.
7. Add a few sprigs of dill (to be removed before pureeing the soup)
8. Optional:  add parsley and celery leaves (to be removed before pureeing the soup) and carrot to the pot.
9. Cook the vegetables for 10 minutes in the olive oil.
10. Add about 9 cups water, salt, pepper.
11. Add some chicken soup stock (or chicken soup powder).
12. Cook for approximately 45 minutes, until all the vegetables are soft.
13. Taste and correct seasoning.
14. Remove all of the green leaves from the soup.
15. With “magic wand” hand blender, blend the soup until it is completely smooth.
16. Continue cooking, on very small flame, for another 10 minutes. Adjust seasoning again.
17. Chop some fresh dill and add to the soup before serving.