Opto-Medicinal Brain Broth
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TypeSoup
Serves4 people
DateOctober 5, 2026
Soup with a brain silhouette from egg and carrot, a nod to the optogenetics breakthrough.
Clear vegetable soup with a central half hard-boiled egg yolk as the brain, surrounded by light yellow carrot strips as neural pathways. The plating forms a brain silhouette, nodding to the optogenetics Nobel breakthrough.
Ingredients
- 2 liters vegetable broth
- 4 eggs
- 4 large carrots
- 1 leek
- 1 small celeriac
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 sprigs parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
Method
- Bring the vegetable broth to a boil.
- Cut carrot, leek, celeriac, and celery into thin julienne strips.
- Peel and halve the onion, finely chop the garlic.
- Add onion, garlic, bay leaves, and the sliced vegetables to the broth. Simmer for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, hard-boil the eggs for 8 minutes. Cool, peel, and halve lengthwise.
- Remove bay leaves from the soup. Season with salt and pepper.
- Divide soup over 4 deep plates. Place a half egg yolk, yolk side up, in the center of each as the brain.
- Arrange thin carrot strips around the yolk in a swirling pattern to form a brain silhouette.
- Garnish with parsley.
Serving notes
- Serve in deep plates with the brain silhouette visible on top.
- Offer fresh bread for dipping.