Description
A creamy and nutritious soup featuring spinach, artichokes, and white beans, enhanced with roasted garlic and served with toasted sourdough.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 bulb garlic
- Avocado oil for roasting and cooking
- 2 leeks, green tops removed
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 1/2 cup raw cashews
- 5 oz fresh spinach (or frozen)
- 1 jar (15 oz) quartered marinated artichoke hearts, drained
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast or 1/4 cup shredded vegan parmesan
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (optional)
- 1 can (15 oz) cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 2 bay leaves
- 10 sprigs of thyme
- 1 tsp yellow miso paste
- Kosher salt, as needed
- Toasted sourdough bread, for serving
- Extra virgin olive oil, for serving (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400°F. Slice off about 1/4 inch from the top of the bulb of garlic and drizzle with avocado oil and salt. Wrap in foil and roast for about 40-45 minutes.
- Prep your ingredients while the garlic is roasting. Slice leeks, dice onion, soak cashews in boiling water, and wilt spinach in hot water.
- Add avocado oil to a large Dutch oven and cook marinated artichoke hearts until browned. Remove from pot.
- Sauté leeks with salt for about 10 minutes, then add onion and continue cooking for an additional 5 minutes.
- Stir in nutritional yeast, ground coriander, and red pepper flakes, cooking for another 2-3 minutes.
- Combine cannellini beans and vegetable broth into the pot, add bay leaves and thyme, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for about 20 minutes.
- Blend soaked cashews with roasted garlic, miso paste, water, and wilted spinach until creamy. Add back to the soup after removing bay leaves and thyme.
- Serve warm, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and with toasted sourdough on the side.
Notes
For a smoother texture, blend the soup with an immersion blender. Adjust seasoning to taste before serving.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 65 minutes
- Category: Soup
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bowl
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 4g
- Sodium: 300mg
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 46g
- Fiber: 9g
- Protein: 12g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
Keywords: soup, vegan, white bean, spinach, comfort food