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Between Italy and India: Carrot soup with coconut, ginger and curry leaf tadka

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In the Ruffoni household, veloutés have always been a welcome guest at the weekday table. Comforting and healthy, nourishing soups are easy to make and waste-proof: we love to experiment with new combinations, letting what is in the fridge guide our hand. Even slightly older, mushy vegetables can make for delicious soups!

Giulia's husband, however, is less of a fan. He believes that the best dishes offer a combination of different textures and flavors, something that veloutés often lack. This recipe, jointly developed by Giulia and Archit, satisfies both by combining the comforting warmth of classic vegetable creams with stronger flavors inspired by India.

The unexpected star of this recipe? The tadka. This idea, borrowed from the Indian culinary tradition, consists of an oil infused with spices and aromatics poured onto a finished dish to add an unexpected layer of flavor. Far from the delicate notes of the aromatics sauteed in oil (“soffritti”) at the base of Italian recipes, here the flavors and aromas explode when the spiced oil garnishes the velouté.
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Famiglia Ruffoni

In the Ruffoni family, cooking is the language of love.
Many of our most cherished memories are linked to cooking and eating together and, even when physically apart, we always discuss old family recipes, share newly discovered ingredients and techniques, and show off our culinary creations through texts and video calls.

In this blog we share the simple, delicious recipes of the Italian heritage – as they have been handed down through generations of Ruffoni – along with our thoughts (and rants!) on all things copper.