Pear-Champagne Soup With Blue Cheese Recipe | Tasting Table
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4 servings
Ingredients
  • 4 cups vegetable stock (preferably homemade)
  • 5 ripe pears (d'Anjou or Comice)--peeled, cored and cut into ½-inch pieces
  • ¼ teaspoon red-pepper flakes
  • 1 cup dry Champagne or sparkling wine
  • Zest of 1 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)
  • Juice of 2 lemons (about ¼ cup)
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 ounces blue cheese, crumbled and at room temperature
  • 12 celery leaves
Directions
  1. In a medium saucepan, bring the vegetable stock and pears to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium, cover and cook until the pears are tender, about 8 minutes. Stir in the red-pepper flakes and remove the saucepan from the heat.
  2. In the bowl of a food processor, blend the pears and stock until smooth. Pass the soup through a fine-mesh strainer into a medium bowl. Stir in the Champagne, lemon zest and lemon juice. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
  3. Divide the soup among 4 shallow bowls and garnish with the blue cheese and celery leaves. Serve immediately.