When we think about making rich creamcome to mind zucchini, leek and pumpkin. However, we can use many more components make some very rich creams and succeed at lunch or dinner. here we leave you three recipes from different creams.
Greek pea soup
Although the name of the recipe says soup, it is cream made with chickpeas, onions, spices and croutons. We tell you how to prepare this healthy cream.
The ingredients are: a can of cooked chickpeas and drained, one onion, a good drizzle of olive oil, two sprigs of fresh parsley, oregano, salt, ground black pepper, 600ml water and lemon juice. We will need 100 grams to serve picatostes.
We start by chopping the onion and put it in a pot to be fried in oil. When it browns well, add chickpeas, parsley, oregano, salt, pepper and water. Let it all cook for half an hour.
When everything is cooked, add the juice of half a lemon and mix everything well with a blender. It is a cream served warm with croutons and a few drops of olive oil..
Almond cream
if you are looking for A different snack with an amazing taste, try the almond cream. It can also be served in small glasses as if it were tapas.
To make it you need one liter of chicken broth, 200 grams of shelled raw almonds, one onion, one leek and half a potato, one tablespoon of butter.
We start to cut the onion and leek and fry them in a pan with a tablespoon of butter. When they are well cooked, add the chopped almonds (all but a handful will be left for decoration), half the potatoes and the chicken stock. We will let everything cook for 30 to 45 minutes. Then we will crush it very well.
To serve you we can hot or cold. And we can decorate the cream with slices of roasted almonds or we can cut it into several parts and caramelize them, as if they were caramelized, to give a more special touch.
Banana soup
The recipe that we can find in different Latin countries, for example in Colombia, where it is made with meat, or in Cuba is; banana soup. We tell you how to make this cream with such a taste that will surprise you.
Here are the ingredients you need three green plantains (male), three cloves of garlic, one onion, one liter of chicken broth, butter, salt and pepper.
We begin to fry the onion and garlic in butter in a pot. When it is cooked, add the broth and the plantains, which we will cook for about 20 minutes or until the plantains are soft. We grind everything until we get a cream, which we will serve with a little chopped coriander and a few pieces of fried plantain.