{"id":14781,"date":"2017-10-12T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=14781"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:55:09","slug":"avocado-and-eggplant-veloute-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/avocado-and-eggplant-veloute-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Avocado and Eggplant Velout\u00e9 (soup)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a popular dish in many African countries.<\/p>\n

Velout\u00e9 is one of the FIVE MOTHER SAUCES<\/a><\/p>\n

Cut off green stem of eggplant
\nCoat outside with EVOO
\nPoke full of holes (lots)
\nBake at 450\u00ba for about 35 minutes – till blackened
\nLet cool down until you can touch it without being burned
\nCut open and discard most of the seeds
\nScrape out flesh – Keep about the size of a playing card of the burnt flesh
\n– set flesh aside
\nSautee diced onion over medium heat
\nAdd garlic when onion has softened (remove center germ)
\nSalt and pepper to taste
\nAdd pinches of curry, cardamom, powdered cumin, cumin seed, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, dry ginger, chili peppers, coriander seed, peppercorn, sweet and hot paprika, fenugrek, and dry turmeric – whatever you already have on hand
\nCook about 3 minutes, then add eggplant back in
\nSimmer another 8-10 minutes
\nWhile eggplant simmers, add shitake mushrooms (more or less, to taste) to a hot pan with EVOO
\nSear mushrooms – add salt
\nMeanwhile, bring 3 C milk up to a high simmer
\nAdd pulp into milk
\nPuree in blender with 4 TBL butter on low
\nAdd skin back in during the last few seconds of blending
\nPour into bowl and top with sauteed mushrooms
\nOptionally add some pieces of torn bread
\nDrizzle with EVOO
\nSprinkle top with chopped chives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a popular dish in many African countries. Velout\u00e9 is one of the FIVE MOTHER SAUCES Cut off green stem of eggplant Coat outside with EVOO Poke full of holes (lots) Bake at 450\u00ba for about 35 minutes – till blackened Let cool down until you can touch it without being burned Cut open … Continue reading “Avocado and Eggplant Velout\u00e9 (soup)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stews","category-world-cuisine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14781"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18069,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions\/18069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}