Artichoke and Almond Soup

This colorful crockery uses a small chili capsicum to adhd a spark to an otherwise-soothing operation of caller artichoke hearts, almonds, creme fraiche and herbs. For added dinner-party drama, determination it implicit the garnishes successful the bowl, restaurant-style. NOTE: Rather than discard the leaves you trimmed to get astatine the artichoke heart, you tin steam them for 15 to 20 minutes, until the fleshy parts astatine their basal are tender, and devour them with a dip oregon conscionable sprinkled with caller citrus juice, the mode you would erstwhile steaming a full artichoke.

The crockery tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 3 days; reheat earlier serving. The fried-artichoke garnish, erstwhile cooled, tin beryllium covered successful an airtight instrumentality and kept astatine country somesthesia for up to 24 hours.

From Frank Ruta, cook astatine the Grill Room successful Georgetown's Capella Hotel.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

• Calories

  320

• Fat

  26 g

• Saturated Fat

  10 g

• Carbohydrates

  14 g

• Sodium

  350 mg

• Cholesterol

  110 mg

• Protein

  10 g

• Fiber

  6 g

• Sugar

  2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Frank Ruta, cook astatine the Grill Room successful Georgetown's Capella Hotel.

Tested by Joe Yonan.