I’m presenting you a perfect comfort food recipe for the colder seasons. My apple cider cheese soup with pretzel chips and finished Bad Ischler Salzzart Gourmet Salt flakes is an easy recipe and made under 30 minutes. The soup has a slight sweetness because of the hard apple cider which gets beautifully outbalanced by the 2 savory ripe cheeses. It’s a delicious fall recipe for sure.

Bad Ischler Salzzart – the gourmet salt from our home country Austria

This special salt is not for everyday cooking and seasoning. It’s the perfect touch to finishing any sweet or savory dish and we loved using it to create this fabulous soup. The locally produced gourmet salt has a melt-in your mouth texture and even has an extraordinary look, it’s pyramid-shaped!

Ever wondered how they produce pyramid-shaped salt flakes?

Bad Ischler combined thousand year old technique of salt boiling with todays knowledge and experience to harvest the finest Austrian gourmet salt directly in our Austrian alps. To produce it, only the purest natural brine, from the century old Dürrnberg salt mine in the Austrian alps, is getting heated to boiling temperature. This leads to the production of tiny salt crystals which join together to form pyramid-shaped flakes. Bad Ischler Salzzart gourmet salt is definitely one of a kind.

There are so may ways to use Bad Ischler Salzzart gourmet salt for example to add the finishing touch to a perfectly medium cooked steak or grilled vegetables. We love using it in the morning for avocado toast or chocolate cookies and for so much more!

What is important for that Autumnly Apple cider cheese soup?

Apple Cider

• If you don’t have hard Apple Cider (called Apfelmost in Austria) at hand mix together apple juice and wine – ratio 1:1

The choices of cheese

In Austria we have a large variety of different cheeses. The majority of these cheeses have a very strong flavor with a bite and of course they are smelly ?.

These strong flavored cheeses are the ones you need to get for that comforting soup recipe.

I used a younger cheese with a more smoother but still strong flavor with a softer consistency and an aged cheese with a very distinctive strong flavor and a harder consistency. For Austrian people it was an Erzherzog Johann and a Bergkäse.

For American folks: If you are not very versatile in the world of cheese I would go for a Muenster and a sharp cheddar. If you know your way around in the world of cheese then you already know what to use or what you prefer ?.

Pretzel Chips

I used as an add-in Pretzel slices which I baked in the oven until cross. I just love the slightly malted and sweet flavour. Of course you can use any bread you have at home. ?

It’s a fantastic comforting soup to surprise your family and friends with. Don’t forget to sprinkle the melt in your mouth Bad Ischler gourmet salt flakes over the pretzel chips as a finish. They perfectly enhance the taste of the dish.

Warm hugs Nina & Antonia

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Savory Autumn Apple Cider and cheese soup served with bread chips seasoned with Bad Ischler Gourmet Salt

4 from 9 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: Appetizer, austrian recipe, lunch, SoupCuisine: austrian

Servings

8

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

30

minutes

Calories

401

kcal

This is the perfect comforting soup for the cold weather season and to use up all that delicious fresh apple cider only available in autumn. The soup has a slightly sweet flavour from the apple cider which gets beautifully outbalanced by the savory ripe cheeses.

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Ingredients

• Baked pretzel chips

• 200 g 200 pretzels fresh or stale bread will do the trick too

• 1 tbsp 1 butter melted or olive oil

• 1 tbsp 1 Bad Ischler Salzzart Gourmet salt or sea salt flakes

• 2 tbsp 2 parsley fried

• Apple cider and cheese soup

• 1 1 shallot finely minced

• 25 g 25 butter for the shallot

• 1/2 tbsp 1/2 salt

• 1/4 tbsp 1/4 garlic powder

• 50 g 50 butter

• 50 g 50 flour

• 200 ml 200 apple cider you can also use 100ml white wine and 100ml apple juice

• 1,2 l 1,2 chicken broth

• 230 g 230 grated cheese use 2 different aged and smelly cheeses with a sharper taste for this soup like sharp cheddar cheese and swiss cheese for example. The ratio is 150g aged cheese and 80g a more softer cheese. For Austrian People: Bergkäse, St. Johann or Weinkäse

• 150 ml 150 cream

• 1 pinch 1 Bad Ischler Salzzart Gourmet salt The Salt is the finishing touch when served along with some freschly grinted black pepper

Directions

• Baked Pretzel Chips
• Slice the Pretzel in thin Slices (1/2cm or 1/4 inch) and arange on a baking tray .
• Drizzle with the meldted butter amd sprinkle lightly with some salt flakes

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• Bake at 180 degree Celsius fan for about 10min or until golden brown.
• Fry the Parsely leaves in hot oil until cross. This will take about 30 seconds. Put the leaves on a kitchen roll paper after the frying for cooling.
• Savory Apple Cider and cheese soup
• Start with melting the 25g of butter in a medium sized pot and add the minced shallot.

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• Cook over medium heat the shallots without out browning until tender.
• Add the 50g butter.
• When melted add the flour and whisk until a roux is forming. Looks like a cake batter.

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• Deglace with the apple cider and keep on whisking for about 5 minutes.

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• Add the chicken Broth and keep whisking until a kind of soup/Cream is forming.
• Now while whisking add the cheeses and the cream. When everything is homogenous let everything bubble on low heat for about 10 minutes.

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• Season with some with freshly ground black pepper and eventually some more salt.
• Serve the soup with the pretzel chips some fried parsely and a pinch of Bad Ischler Gourmet Salt as a finishing.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 401kcal
• Carbohydrates: 30g
• Protein: 12g
• Fat: 27g
• Saturated Fat: 16g
• Cholesterol: 80mg
• Sodium: 2446mg
• Potassium: 244mg
• Fiber: 1g
• Sugar: 4g
• Vitamin A: 927IU
• Vitamin C: 12mg
• Calcium: 238mg
• Iron: 2mg

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You will be in love with this easy and healthy celery soup! It’s delicious, comforting and fast to make! And vegan too! If you want your celery soup to be more creamy, you can add heavy cream or cashews!

Did you know that celery has a lot of health benefits? Yep, Celery fights inflammation, lowers cholesterol, lowers blood pressure and is super high in antioxidants. And there are a lot more!

Homemade sourdough bread croutons

I loooooove to serve my celery soup with homemade sourdough bread croutons! Following is how I always made them. It’s really simple, you just need 3 ingredients:

•sourdough bread, at least a day old, cut into, cut into cubes
•basil pesto to your tasting
•olive oil

Combine bread cubes, pesto and olive oil until evenly combined. Spread out onto a parchment covered baking sheet. Bake at 190°C for 15-20 minutes until crispy. Turn halfway through!

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Easy Celery Soup

5 from 11 votes

Recipe by Antonia Course: Breakfast, brunch, easy to make, Soup, starterCuisine: healthy

Servings

4

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

25

minutes

Calories

305

kcal

You will be in love with this easy and healthy celery soup! It's delicious, comforting and fast to make! And vegan!

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Ingredients

• 250 g 250 celery

• 2 2 small potatoes

• 1 1 onion

• 1 1 spring onion

• 110 g 110 butter or vegan butter

• 800 ml 800 vegetable broth

• 1/4 cup 1/4 dill fresh or frozen

• 1/2 cup 1/2 heavy cream (optional) or replace with 1/2 cup cashews to make it vegan

Directions

• Combine finley chopped celery, roughly chopped potato, chopped spring onion and butter in a pot over medium heat, season with salt and cook, stirring until onion is tender, 8-10 minutes.
• Add vegetable broth and bring to a roiling boil, turn heat down and simmer until potatoes are tender, for 8-10 minutes.
• Turn the heat off, and blend the soup with 1/4 cup dill. If you want it creamier just add 1/2 cup heavy cream or add 1/2 cashews at the beginnig with the potatoes, but you don't need to! It's really delicious without it too!

Notes

• If you add cashews to the potatoes, add some lemons juice, for the taste

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 305kcal
• Carbohydrates: 24g
• Protein: 3g
• Fat: 23g
• Saturated Fat: 14g
• Cholesterol: 59mg
• Sodium: 1069mg
• Potassium: 709mg
• Fiber: 3g
• Sugar: 5g
• Vitamin A: 1650IU
• Vitamin C: 16mg
• Calcium: 55mg
• Iron: 1mg

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This is an easy broccoli soup recipe topped with some garlic-quinoa crunch. It’s healthy! It’s vegan and you don’t need that much ingredients! If you have broccoli, onion, celery, zucchini and potato at hand than you’re good to go!

Since we are only at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, I am cooking a lot of things which I can easily portion and freeze, since I always make more than needed! This broccoli soup is perfect for freezing and the quinoa crunch too! And yes my freezer is more than full, I am currently in discussion with my boyfriend to get another little freezer, which “I” so desperately need but he thinks otherwise

The garlic quinoa crunch is just perfect and so versatile! You can omit the seeds and use the ingredients you have at home like nuts or almonds! And you can use the garlic quinoa crunch not only to top of soups but also salads, meat, everything! It’s soooo good!

Hope you enjoyed this recipe for my delicious vegan broccoli soup!

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Broccoli Soup with Garlic Quinoa Crunch

5 from 8 votes

Recipe by Antonia Course: Appetizer, easy to make, few ingredients, Soup, vegan, vegetable for lifeCuisine: healthy, vegan cuisine

Servings

4

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

35

minutes

Calories

418

kcal

This is a fast and easy broccoli soup made with only a few ingredients like zucchini, celery and potato. It's vegan too! Served with the best garlic quinoa crunch!

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Ingredients

• Broccoli soup

• 2 tbsp 2 olive oil

• 1 1 onion diced

• 2 2 cellery chopped finely

• 2 2 cloves of garlic crushed

• 1 1/2 1 1/2 large head of broccoli cut into florets

• 1 1 zucchini chopped coarsely

• 1 1 potato large, chopped coarsely

• 3-5 cup 3-5 vegetable stock

• Garlic Quinoa Crunch

• 100 g 100 white quinoa rinsed well

• 2 tbsp 2 olive oil

• 2 tbsp 2 sunflower seeds

• 2 tbsp 2 pumpkin seeds or almonds

• 1 tbsp 1 tomato flakes

• 2 2 cloves garlic crushed

• 2 tbsp 2 parsley

Directions

• Broccoli Soup
• Heat oli and cook onion and celery, stirring until softened. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute.
• Add broccoli, zucchini, potato, stock and some water, it should cover slightly all the vegetable, bring to boil. Reduce heat to low-medium and simmer for 10 minutes, until vegetables are tender. Remove soup from heat and process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
• Garlic Quinoa Crunch
• Cook quinoa following packet direction; drain. Heat oil, add quinoa, seeds and tomato flakes. Cook stirring frequently for 10 minutes until quinoa becomes golden. Add garlic and parsley, cook for 1 minute. Let it cool, it will crisp while it cools.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 418kcal
• Carbohydrates: 47g
• Protein: 15g
• Fat: 22g
• Saturated Fat: 3g
• Sodium: 811mg
• Potassium: 1385mg
• Fiber: 11g
• Sugar: 8g
• Vitamin A: 2152IU
• Vitamin C: 224mg
• Calcium: 169mg
• Iron: 6mg

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