Cream of Chestnut Soup

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There’s specified a delicate equilibrium of spirit successful this refined mentation of a wintertime favorite, with amazingly small dairy. Start with honey-colored, freshly roasted chestnuts and homemade chickenhearted broth, and this crockery volition beryllium 1 your guests speech astir for years. (Here, utilizing h2o alternatively of broth is simply a smarter prime than going with a commercially produced broth.)

It calls for a spot of champagne; conscionable ace unfastened a spot aboriginal what you program to determination for the evening. A instrumentality blender's not recommended here.

The chestnuts tin beryllium roasted, peeled and refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality respective days successful advance. The crockery is champion served the aforesaid time it’s made.

Ingredients

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Servings: 4-6 (makes astir 5 cups)

10 1/2 ounces fresh, unshelled chestnuts (may substitute 8 1/2 ounces vacuum-packed, peeled chestnuts; spot headnote and NOTE)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, preferably Plugra brand
2 ample shallots, minced (1/2 cup)
1 1/2 ounces [peeled, 1/4-inch-dice [ingredient:9095] (celeriac; 1/2 cup)
4 1/2 tablespoons champagne (may substitute different sparkling achromatic wine)
2 1/2 cups no-salt-added chickenhearted broth, preferably homemade (may substitute water; spot headnote)
3 1/2 tablespoons milk
3 1/2 tablespoons dense cream
Sea salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

Calories
180
Fat
8 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
24 g
Sodium
90 mg
Cholesterol
25 mg
Protein
2 g
Sugar
4 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.

Adapted from “The Essence of French Cooking,” by Michel Roux (Quadrille, 2015).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published December 21, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026