Backpack Soup with One-Way Ticket
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TypeSoup
Serves4 people
DateSeptember 17, 2026
Soup with a courgette backpack and a single bread stick as a visa ticket.
Clear vegetable soup featuring a 'backpack' made from a halved courgette filled with simple vegetables, and a thin baguette slice as a one-way ticket. The backpack symbolizes the traveler; the single bread stick nods to the new visa rules: one trip, no return.
Ingredients
- 2 liters water
- 2 vegetable stock cubes
- 2 medium carrots
- 1 leek
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 courgette (for the backpack)
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 4 slices baguette
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- pepper to taste
- 1 bay leaf
Method
- Bring the water with stock cubes and bay leaf to a boil.
- Cut carrots, leek, celery, and onion into small pieces.
- Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil in a soup pot.
- Add carrot, leek, and celery, briefly sauté.
- Pour in the stock and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Cut the courgette in half lengthwise, hollow out one half to make a 'backpack'. Dice the scooped-out flesh and add to the soup.
- Briefly grill the half courgette so it stays firm.
- Ladle soup into bowls. Place the grilled courgette half (backpack) filled with some soup vegetables on top.
- Cut thin strips from the baguette (one-way ticket) and lay diagonally next to the courgette in the soup.
- Season with pepper.
Serving notes
- Serve with the courgette 'backpack' clearly on top.
- Lay the bread 'one-way ticket' diagonally beside the courgette.
- Keep the presentation minimalist for a sober effect.