Recipe: Fennel & apple soup with ham

This is a quick weekday recipe that combines two of my favourite things in winter: soup and fennel. Add one of my favourite things regardless of the season (i.e. pork, in the form of ham) and you have a rounded meal for 4.

Fennel & apple soup with ham

This is a quick weekday recipe that combines two of my favourite things in winter: soup and fennel.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Course Main Course, Soup

Cuisine Modern Australian

Servings 4

Ingredients

  

• 2 large (or 4 small) fennel bulbs
• 1/2 onion
• 1/2 apple
• 2 tbsp ghee or fat of choice
• 4 cups chicken or beef broth
• 1 1/2 tsp rosemary salt (or 1 teaspoon dried rosemary + 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 380 g good quality ham preferably not sliced

Instructions

 

• Slice fennel, onion and apple.
• Heat ghee in a pot, throw in the fennel, onion and apple and cook until soft and slightly caramelised, approximately 20 minutes.
• Add broth and rosemary salt (or rosemary and salt).
• Blend the soup with a stick blender or in a regular blender in batches. Adjust seasoning.
• Dice ham and serve on top of soup.

Keyword apple, dairy free, fennel, gluten free, ham, soup

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