# Soup from Nothing

A clean, simple, and complex soup made from inexpensive, on-hand ingredients like caraway seeds, onions, garlic, flour, paprika, and parsley, enhanced with a parsley pesto and served with cheese biscuits.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- caraway seeds
- 2 quarts water
- onion
- oil
- garlic
- flour
- paprika
- parsley
- vinegar

## Instructions

1. Toast some caraway seeds in a saucepan for 2 or 3 minutes until they start to smoke.
2. Add 2 quarts of water to the saucepan with the caraway seeds.
3. Simmer the caraway seeds and water, partially covered, for about half an hour.
4. In a separate pan, sauté chopped onion in oil.
5. Add minced garlic towards the end of cooking the onions.
6. Add flour and a little paprika to the onion and garlic mixture, making a roux.
7. Add about half of the caraway seed stock through a strainer to the roux.
8. Whisk the mixture until it starts to thicken.
9. Add the rest of the caraway seed liquid through a strainer.
10. Cook the soup down very gently for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
11. Make a parsley pesto with no oil using a food processor.
12. Take the parsley pesto out of the food processor and place it in a bowl.
13. Add a little bit of vinegar to the parsley pesto and mix it.
14. Serve the soup by pouring it into a bowl.
15. Place a nice spoonful of the parsley pesto in the middle of the soup.

## Equipment

- saucepan
- lid
- whisk
- strainer
- food processor
- bowl
- ladle
- spoon

## Tips

- Add a little bit of vinegar to the parsley pesto to make it nice and bright and get the full flavor of the herbs.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHBJ-RCODf9/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/99e0babf-11b7-439f-8463-2fb87732a95f
- Extracted: 2025-10-19

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