Food Blog Friday: New Year Noodle Soup
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This week’s Food Blog Friday recipe comes from the gorgeous 101 Cookbooks. It is a spiced bean and noodle soup that blogger Heidi Swanson claims to be the “perfect recipe to usher in the new year with”. New Year Noodle Soup.
The exotic East Indian ingredients like chile pepper, turmeric, and cumin are what caught my eye and enticed me to make this recipe (plus it’s a soup and I fucking love soup. Yeah, I love it that much.)
The recipe calls for borlotti beans which, I admit, I had never even heard of before. I substituted them with canned romano beans. Funnily enough, after a quick google of “borlotti beans” at the time of this writing I learned that they actually are romano beans, so that was a stroke of good luck.
Another substitution that I made was thin rice noodles instead of egg noodles because they are what I had on hand.
This recipe turned out to be fantastic. The heat from the spices and hot pepper was balanced by the acidity of the lime and the cool fresh herbs. Reading the recipe, I found the inclusion of dill to be rather curious, but it actually worked really well and was perhaps my favourite addition.
The soup is to be topped with creme fraiche, caramelized onions, and walnuts but I opted out of the the topping out to keep the recipe vegan. I thought the recipe worked even without the inclusion of the topping although the next time that I make this one I think that I would use the topping just to see the difference. I imagine that it would further balance the heat and also bring a sweetness that the New Year Noodle Soup is otherwise lacking.
All in all I loved this recipe and would definitely make it again, no substitutions. I give it
3 Spoons!
Find the recipe for 101 Cookbooks New Year Noodle Soup here.
Food Blog Friday recipes are ranked on the scale of 0-3 spoons
0 spoons – That was fucking horrendous
1 spoon – I doubt I’ll be making that again
2 spoons – I’ll probably make that again with some tweaks
3 spoons – That was perfect.
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I love Heidi.
Thanks for the soup review! I’m not a huge soup person (not like you are apparently hahaha I laughed at your enthusiasm). Anyway, but tHIS looks like something I could like! Plus, turmeric is such a super ingredient that I leap at the chance to include it in recipes!! thanks for a great one!
I love noodles dishes.
This soup looks delicious! And I love that you topped it with creme fraise. Sounds perfect.
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Mmmm, this soup sounds wonderful. Thanks for the review.
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That soup looks amazing!
I have that recipe on my list to try this week! Glad to hear it was so great!
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I’ll raise my spoon to that! This looks delicious
I love 101 Cookbooks! I’m totally curious about that soup. I’m always intimidated by Indian recipes.
p.s. I gave you the stylish blogger award!
It’s chilly here in my house… I could really go for a bowl of that right now!!
Borlotti beans? Those are new to me too! That dish really does look amazing!
LOVE 101 cookbooks- Heidi has so many awesome recipes! Your dish looks like it turned out fabulous.
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Wow, this sounds wonderful! With such high recommendations, I am going to have to make it, of course! I love that it has spaghetti noodles in it — makes it a hearty meal!
This soup looks fantastic. And with such rave reviews I’ll have to check it out.
Mmm, I definitely want to make me some soup after seeing your version. I like your tweaks to the original, and I’ll bet it was filling and delicious (with 3 spoons, how could it not be?
).
LOVE the idea of a spoon rating!!! That soup looks extra delicious with all those noodles