Thermomix: Carrot Puré (Puree)

Of course you all know what a Thermomix is, it's a blender with a built-in heating system. Cooks and stirs / blends at the same time! Quite unique one might say.

Today it was Carrot Puré (or is it puree?) - to use up stuff that I had in the vegetable box before it all went bad.

Ingredients: (all go in at once)

• 500 gr carrots (peeled and chopped up some)
• 3 leeks (white part only) (chopped up too)
• 1 potato (peeled, raw [actually, I used 4 semi-minis])
• 3 cloves garlic (smashed)
• 2 T olive oil (1st cold pressed virgin 'cause we're basically `eating´ it)
• 2 T veal stock powder concentrate (or cubes or whatever) (cheating)
  
• 8 grains whole black pepper (actually, it was an assortment of colors that my sister had given me)
  
• milk (to cover)
  
  Later when it was done I added:
  
• 1 T ground white pepper
• 1 dashing of nutmeg (fresh ground - but go easy with it)
  
• salt, to taste, then a dash more
• 2 T olive oil
• milk (a little more to get a soupy consistancy) or cream, but I didn't have any

Directions:

1. Speed level 1 at 100C (this is a 1st generation machine so maybe about 5 on the new models - I'll have to research that some day)
2. 20 minutes (okay, I forgot and it went for 40, no big deal)
3. Try it and figure that it's too grainy
   
4. 1-2 minutes at maximum speed to make it real fine
   
5. Taste, decide it's too bland and carroty
6. Add the second grounp of ingredients

Subtle carrot-leek taste; spicy from the pepper. Not meant as a whole big bowl of soup but more of a appetizer - a modest portion will do.

Alternative to the nifty machine: cook on the stove in a pot and attack at intervals (after 10 minutes to soften the veggies) with an immersion blender.