Carrot Ginger Soup with Vitamix

Carrot Ginger Soup

If you like carrots, you'll love this soup.  It's nice and creamy thanks to the almonds. It's also a healthy and quick soup you can make in your Vitamix.  I took the original recipe and adjusted it for the Vitamix.  I hope you enjoy it!

Carrots are extremely healthy.  They help your vision, clear your skin, prevent cancer, prevent heart disease, and slows down the aging of cells.

Besides helping with morning sickness and motion sickness, ginger is known to help prevent a number of cancers, relief migraines, and help treat and prevent colds and flus.

Vitamix Carrot Ginger Soup

• 1 1/2 lbs. carrots
• 1/2 large yellow onion, chopped
• 1 Tbsp. grated fresh ginger or 1 tsp. ground ginger
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2-4 cups vegetable broth (if you like it thin use more, thick use less)
• 3-4 Tbsp. slivered almonds
• Half the juice of a lemon

1. Put the vegetable broth in the Vitamix. Scrub and chop carrots, put in Vitamix. Add the onions, garlic, almonds, and ginger.
2. If your Vitamix has a soup setting, set to soup and start.  If not, start on 1 and go up to 10 and blend for about 5 minutes or until hot.
3. Serve immediately or save and heat up later.

Guacamole Recipe

Guacamole

My family loves avocados and we also love guacamole.  I got this recipe from the Vitamix Savor Recipes cookbook and it was delicious.  

When I used to make guacamole I would take my potato masher and mash everything together.  I have to say, making it in a blender is so much easier!  I am also not a huge fan of raw onions, but they are pretty good in this recipe.  Here is how I make guacamole in a Vitamix.

Guacamole in a Blender

1 Roma tomato, quartered, divided use

4 ripe avocados, halved, pitted, peeled, divided use

1/2 cup chopped red onion

2 Tbs lemon juice (I just squeezed the juice of one lemon)

1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves (I used basil leaves since that's what I had)

1 tsp salt

1. Place 1/4 tomato, 1/2 an avocado, onion, lemon juice, cilantro, and salt into your blender

2. Blend for 20 seconds or until ingredients are mixed.  If ingredients get stuck, push them down into the blades.

3. Add remaining tomato and avocados into the blender and blend for 1 additional minute.

4. Do not over mix and leave chunky.  Serve with tortilla chips or chopped vegges such as carrots and celery.

Note: For a spicier guacamole, add 1/2 jalapeno pepper during step 1.  

Also, if you like garlic you can add a fresh clove of garlic or some garlic powder to taste in step 1.