Chilled Avocado Soup With Cucumber Relish

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1 stalk celery, diced
• 1/2 red onion, diced
• 1/2 tablespoon butter or 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 quarts cold chicken stock or 2 quarts chicken broth
• 8 ripe avocados, peeled, seeded and diced
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• salt
• 2 english seedless cucumbers, peeled and diced
• 1 lime, juice of

Recipe

• 1 sauté carrot, celery and onion in butter or olive oil until they are al dente.
• 2 add to cold chicken stock.
• 3 dice all of the avocados.
• 4 whisk 5 of them into the chicken stock until the soup begins to thicken.
• 5 lightly whip in the cream and 1 more avocado.
• 6 salt to taste.
• 7 to make relish, take 2 remaining avocados and combine with cucumbers and lime juice.
• 8 season with salt.
• 9 to serve, place relish in the center of a chilled bowl and pour in chilled soup.