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Home » Recipe » Food Blogging Challenges » Jumpstart15 » Skinny Creamy Celeriac & Apple Soup

Skinny Creamy Celeriac & Apple Soup

Published on January 12, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia 25 Comments
Last Updated on January 28, 2019

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All the flavour and nearly half the calories!

Skinny Creamy Celeriac & Apple Soup

I love a hearty, creamy bowl of soup, me. Especially when the winds are howling outside and you want something warm and comforting. Alas, most creamy soup recipes use a ridiculous amount of double cream – something I just can’t afford to eat right now while I’m trying to shed a few pounds.

I read something over on Becca’s food blog – Amuse Your Bouche – recently, which I filed away in my brain for future use. She’d thickened a gorgeous Extra Creamy Leek & Potato Soup with cornflour and was raving on about how delicious and creamy it was. I had to try this out myself!

The sun came out yesterday, in between days of hurricane force winds. Inspired by the brief return of daylight (and opportunity to take some food photos!) and a single celeriac languishing in the bottom of my vegetable crisper for slightly too long (it was desperately needing used up!) I made this soup recipe for lunch, and I have to say I was really rather impressed with it.

The recipe makes enough soup for four hearty bowls, none of this “regular recipe divided into eight portions to keep the calorie content down” like a lot of diet recipes (seriously – I made a cashew yogurt recipe a few weeks ago because they said it was low calorie and tasty – it turns out that each serving was only two tablespoons – and it was yuck!).

No, this is a full, hearty bowl with a good mouth chew in each spoonful. You actually feel like you are eating something with this soup, not a watery bowl of vegetables. A bowl of this soup and four mini oatcakes and I was set for an hour’s hill walking with the family during our brief reprieve from the winter storms.

Celeriac is an underused vegetable, I think. To be honest, I’d never even tried one until they started appearing in my organic vegetable boxes, and now I look forward to them. They’re not starchy (and subsequently high in carbs) like potatoes but they do make a deliciously creamy low calorie soup.

If I was to use double cream in this recipe, like I normally would, that would add an extra 702 calories to it – making each bowl a whopping 315 kcal. Replacing the double cream with cornflour thickened soya milk means each hearty bowlful comes in at a mere 168 kcal, without compromising any flavour.

Enjoy!

Skinny celeriac and apple soup

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  • Skinny Creamy Celeriac & Apple Soup
    • Affiliate Links
    • Instructions 
    • Environmental Information

Skinny Creamy Celeriac & Apple Soup

A proper, filling, creamy bowl of hearty soup - and low calorie too!
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 130 grams onion coarsely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic crushed
  • 700 grams celeriac peeled and coarsely chopped
  • 100 grams apple peeled and coarsely chopped
  • 1 pint vegetable stock
  • 200 ml soy milk
  • 15 grams cornflour
  • s sea salt to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste
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Instructions 

  • Heat oil in a large pan. Gently saute the onion and garlic until it begins to soften, about five minutes.
  • Add the celeriac, apple and vegetable stock and simmer, gently, until tender. About 20-25 minutes.
  • Puree in a blender, rinse out the pan and return the soup to the pan.
  • Dissolve the cornflour in a little bit of soy milk and add, along with the rest of the soy milk, to the pan. Stir until thickened.
  • Season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste.

Environmental Information

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Jumpstart 2015

This recipe is part of the Jumpstart 2015 food blogging challenge – a group of us food bloggers have decided to jump start this year by including more juices, smoothies and soups in our diets, and sharing our recipes and weight loss progress as we go along.

Bloggers doing Jumpstart 2015:

  • Tinned Tomatoes
    • Slim down with Jumpstart January
    • Jumpstart 2015 – A Diet and Health Plan
    • Orange, Carrot & Goats Cheese Salad with Pumpkin Seeds
  • Fuss Free Flavours
  • Ren Behan
    • Healthy Pasta Dishes | Guest Blog Event: Pasta Please January 2015
  • Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
    • Jumpstart 2015 – Juices, Smoothies & Soups
    • Roasted Tomato and Garlic Soup
  • Smarter Fitter
    • An Easy 3-Day Juice Feast to Jumpstart 2015
  • Utterly Scrummy Food for Families
    • Jumpstart January with Smoothies and Soups
  • Veggie Desserts
    • Jumpstart 2015 – Squashing Vegetables and Feeling Healthier
  • Franglais Kitchen
    • Happy New Year! A healthy jump start and our pick of food trends for 2015
  • London Unattached (focusing on soups)
  • Maison Cupcake
    • Jumpstart 2015: I quit sugar too
  • Food to Glow
    • Jumpstart 2015 – Eat Smart, Feel Great
    • North African Winter Vegetable Soup with Toasted Freekeh
    • Happy Tummy Tonic

I am also linking up with Extra Veg, co-hosted my Michelle over at Utterly Scrummy and Helen at Fuss Free Flavours and No Croutons Required, a soup and salad challenge by Jacqueline over at Tinned Tomatoes and Lisa at Lisa’s Kitchen.

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Filed Under: Froothie, Jumpstart15, Recipe, Soup, Vegan Tagged With: #Jumpstart15, apple, celeriac, Froothie Optimum 9400, Soup, Vegan, weight loss

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Comments

  1. Ana De- Jesus says

    January 30, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    I like that you are combining the sweet crunchiness of the apple with the bitter texture of celery. I bet that makes for a winning combination?

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  2. Paul Wilson says

    September 21, 2015 at 12:12 am

    Celeriac is much underrated in my opinion.

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  3. Ursula Hunt says

    March 23, 2015 at 11:59 am

    I love these two flavours together so this should be scrummy

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  4. Emily @amummytoo says

    January 28, 2015 at 11:07 pm

    Mmm, that looks like a lovely change from the usual orange/red soups. I’ll be giving this a try.

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  5. Lisa says

    January 28, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    That sounds like a divine and comforting bowl of soup. Thanks for sharing with NCR.

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  6. Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours says

    January 26, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    I love apple and celeriac soup – what a great idea to thicken with cornflour. i usually add a generous knob of butter! thank you for sending to #ExtraVeg

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  7. Paul Wilson says

    January 20, 2015 at 1:25 am

    I like the use of soy milk instead of cream.

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  8. Carole Cambridge says

    January 16, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    Looks absolutely delicious… will definitely give it a try, especially like that it’s low fat!

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  9. Pam Francis Gregory says

    January 15, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    Love the look of this & so quick too!

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  10. kellie@foodtoglow says

    January 13, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    This will taste a lot more lux and creamy than the mere calories say. Looks delicious and perfect for this wintry weather!

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  11. Sally - My Custard Pie says

    January 13, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    Love this tip for making soups creamy. I’ve jumped in with the Jumpstart15 too and I’m really enjoying it. Wish I could do some hill walking as part of my get fitter regime but going to the beach isn’t bad either.

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  12. Tracey Peach says

    January 13, 2015 at 10:27 am

    This looks so delicious & warming. With only 168 calories you can’t go wrong!

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  13. Chloe Griffiths says

    January 12, 2015 at 6:26 pm

    I’ve nerve heard of apple soup before! i bet it tastes so yummy xo

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  14. Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says

    January 12, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    Yay I’m glad my recipe inspired you!! 🙂 Your soup looks absolutely gorgeous, so smooth and creamy! I love the heart shaped spoon too 😀

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  15. Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says

    January 12, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    Yum! I love celeriac in soup. We always add cornflour to ours too and it’s a nice way to make it creamier.

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    • Elizabeth says

      January 12, 2015 at 4:08 pm

      Me too – or simmered with some tatties and mashed with plenty of butter! 😀

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  16. Jacqueline Meldrum says

    January 12, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    It looks great and I am thinking it probably tastes a lot like my celery and apple soup, which is tres yum. Linked to you in my latest post. All up to date now I think 🙂

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    • Elizabeth says

      January 12, 2015 at 4:07 pm

      Thanks Jac, and thanks for organizing such a great event!

      Reply
  17. Clare Mansell says

    January 12, 2015 at 12:43 pm

    My sister-in-law bought us a soup recipe book for Christmas and this weekend we tried a recipe which had dried apricot in it. It was actually surprisingly tasty. I mention it because this recipe has apple in it and I think it can be a really pleasant change to have a bit of sweetness to liven up a soup. I love your heart-shaped spoon too! 🙂

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    • Elizabeth says

      January 12, 2015 at 4:07 pm

      A little bit of sweetness never did any harm 🙂 You’re right though, just a touch can really enhance a dish.

      Reply
  18. Laura says

    January 12, 2015 at 12:43 pm

    Wow, great tip. I know I say this about a lot of recipes by I really must try this. Ok so I always intend to try everything I saw I will but I’m guilty of getting distracted by the next recipe so end up missing most of them. However, I reeeeeeaaallllly want to try this after having discovered how much I like celeriac in a pasta dish last month. And that heart shaped spoon? So cute!

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    • Elizabeth says

      January 12, 2015 at 4:04 pm

      Isn’t it a great idea! I’d never have thought! 🙂 Thank you for your lovely comment Laura, I really appreciate it 🙂

      Reply

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