Egged Red Pepper Soup (Pic Heavy)

bitslammer

Got up this AM and went right to work making the Egged Pepper soup. This soup is 110% pepper flavor. It's one of my all time favorites. Egging the peppers really does seem to add a nice touch of smoke as always leave a bit of the charred skin on.


Start with the sauteing some onion, carrot & celery in butter and olive oil.


Add the peppers to the pot. I always make sure I "pour" the liquid from inside each pepper into the pot. This is like pepper liquor. It's loaded with the pepper flavor AND the sugars. With 8 peppers I got almost 3/4cup of this wonderful stuff.


Here they are simmering away. NO liquid added at this point. That's all from the peppers.


Now for another key ingredient; good stock. This was made from last chicken we spatchcocked. Remember! every time you spatchcock a chicken and don't make stock god kills a kitten.


Time to bring out the "Soupinator 9000." Pile of old tires, stray critters, pesky neighbor? This thing can turn them all into soup.


Here it is in action.


Just for a little kick!


Here's on of the "secret" ingredients. That's 1/3 cup of lite sour cream thinned with water until it just pours. It adds nice body to the flavor. At this point I season to taste with salt & pepper. If I want to darken the color I use soy sauce instead of salt which also adds depth to the flavor.Just need to be careful as you can overwhelm with soy sauce.


Time to portion out for the fridge. If you have nice neighbors send one over.


Time to eat. Killer breakfast!

thechief96

How close do I have to be to be considered a "neighbor"? :laugh:

Florida Grillin Girl

I like it. Great colors and pictures. That soup looks good enough to eat anytime of the day.

Faith

MountainGriller

Yum, Yum, Looks awesome - I would love to make it - do you have any tips - the photo are great and helpful
I dug through 18" of snow yesterday to get to the BGE.
I'm ready to fire it up. - I don't have all of the ingredients on hand for the soup -- will go to the store tomorrow.

Eggsakley

That looks delicious and the process seems simple enough even I can do it. Thanx. Didn't know about the kitten thing so I will do better in the future. :blink:

Smokin' not stirred

Good stuff. I actually make almost the same thing with yellow peppers (and heavy cream...I'll hve to be good and try your sour cream trick). Thanks for the idea. J

Frank from Houma

Nice soup Chris - Thanks for sharing

cookn biker

Fabulous!!! You done good!

Little Steven

Jay,

Me too. And butter I use some canned tomatoes passed through a sieve as well.

Steve

Bacchus

Looks great. What kind of peppers are/were they?

Grandpas Grub

 
Glad you asked, I saw a can of something in the pictures.

GG

bitslammer

Bacchus wrote:

Looks great. What kind of peppers are/were they?

Just plain bell peppers. 6 red and 2 yellow.

bitslammer

Grandpas Grub wrote:

 
Glad you asked, I saw a can of something in the pictures.

GG

The can you saw was probably my Chile Pepper Magazine coffee mug.