John’s recipe for Turkey and Chestnut Soup

I was up at 6.30am this morning making soup for tonight’s Tongham Tasters event. The idea was to create something seasonal and as I had some turkey stock left over in the freezer from Thanksgiving and fancied a chestnut soup, came up with the following recipe. Although, I have tried foraging for chestnuts in the past, it was not very successful, so I used a packet version from the supermarket.


Anyone for a cup of soup?


I peeled a carrot, an onion, a potato and 2 cloves of garlic and put them in the Thermomix with a stick of celery and chopped. I then added a 200g pack of Merchant Gourmet whole chestnuts, some left-over pancetta pieces and some olive oil. All of this was then sautéed in the Thermomix for about 4 minutes before adding 1 pint of turkey stock, 1 pint of water and some seasoning (salt, pepper and herbs de provence). It was then cooked in the Thermomix for 30 minutes before blitzing for 1 minute. Et voila – a taste of Christmas ready to be served tonight (and whilst all of this was going on I made myself and Jane a cup of tea, drank it and had a shower and wrote this blog!). Thank you Thermomix! For more about Thermomix go to Jane’s blog site    http://www.whyisthereair.com/    …. See you tonight!

I wonder which wine would go with this best - I'll let you know after tonight.