Pear Soup from the Tasting Table

I found this really interesting recipe on the The Tasting Table site. I would reduce the amount of blue cheese for diabetics but otherwise sounds like a really good soup. I am off to buy the ingredients yum.

INGREDIENTS

4 cups vegetable stock (preferably homemade)

5 ripe pears (d'Anjou or Comice)--peeled, cored and cut into ½-inch pieces

¼ teaspoon red-pepper flakes

1 cup dry Champagne or sparkling wine

Zest of 1 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)

Juice of 2 lemons (about ¼ cup)

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 ounces blue cheese, crumbled and at room temperature

12 celery leaves

DIRECTIONS

1. In a medium saucepan, bring the vegetable stock and pears to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium, cover and cook until the pears are tender, about 8 minutes. Stir in the red-pepper flakes and remove the saucepan from the heat.

2. In the bowl of a food processor, blend the pears and stock until smooth. Pass the soup through a fine-mesh strainer into a medium bowl. Stir in the Champagne, lemon zest and lemon juice. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

3. Divide the soup among 4 shallow bowls and garnish with the blue cheese and celery leaves. Serve immediately.

Happy Cooking

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