Recently, I received yet another gift certificate from CSN Stores with the stipulation that whatever I purchase from the site I would then review. This time around I opted for a hand blender, which may seem excessive considering that I already have a food processor, a mini food processor, and a Magic Bullet (with a blender attachment). Here’s the thing though: I love making soup, and quite frequently, I must purée the ingredients. Call me lazy, but I really hate all the transferring to the food processor or the Magic Bullet and then back again. It’s just… annoying. Plus, since I use a big ol’ dutch oven, it’s very cumbersome to pour the soup contents out; so I must use a ladle, which takes an epically long time (at least in my head). Hence, I opted for an immersion blender that I could just insert into the soup and turn on.
So what to test this bad boy out on? Well, as it turns out, there’s a soup that I make more than any other soup, and I realized I’d never documented it here on the blog. What better way to introduce the amazing Moroccan Carrot Soup?
I started making this soup nearly a year ago. I’ve made it with chicken stock, with veggie stock, with butter, with olive oil, with yogurt, without yogurt. I’ve done it all. It’s the first soup that I feel like I know. It’s delicious, it’s healthy, and it’s supremely easy. But would the hand blender do the trick? Results after the jump…
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