The Best Trick for Making Super Creamy Vegan Soups | Genius Recipes with Kristen Miglore

CREAMY VEGAN SOUPS: In this episode of Genius Recipes, host Kristen Miglore turns to Wil Yeung, cookbook author and host of the Youtube channel ‘Yeung Man Cooking,’ for a new way to make lush, creamy soups that happen to be entirely vegan. The first genius ingredient is cashew cream, aka equal parts water and raw cashews, which you can blend without soaking if you’re using a high-speed blender like a Vitamix. And the second, maybe more surprising genius ingredient? A thinly sliced potato—and this is crucial — rinsed to get rid of any excess starch, so the soup has loads of body but won’t sneak off and go gluey as you blend.

Here, Wil’s template takes the form of a creamy mushroom soup. But to show how riffable Wil’s technique is, Kristen came up with another creamy vegan soup recipe inspired by two specialties of Duarte’s, a 129-year-old tavern in Pescadero, a tiny fishing and farming village on the California coast: their famous cream of artichoke and green chile soups, which they often serve swirled together.

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Creamy (Vegan!) Mushroom Soup: https://f52.co/3KhPnWI
Creamy Artichoke and Green Chili Soup: https://f52.co/3ntVAG2

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Every week in Genius Recipes, Food52 Founding Editor and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will make you rethink the way you cook. They might involve an unexpectedly simple technique, debunk a kitchen myth, or apply a familiar ingredient in a new way. There are good recipes and there are great ones—and then, there are genius recipes! You can watch more Genius Recipes here: [link to playlist].

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