Bright purple soup

Save it for next Halloween? ?

Wear dark glasses?

Eat it whilst wearing a red hat

Tell yourself that every spoonful is full of anti-oxidants!

Or wing of bat and eye of snake ...

In my ignorance I had to look up mooli
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Lovely - just eat it in the dark!

I grew red cabbage and cooked some it turned out bright purply blue it put me off. So the rest of it went into jars to pickle and for coleslaw. I must read up what to do to remedy this when being cooked.

It’s in the freezer. And no doubt will be ignored until it’s too old then thrown out.

Red cabbage turns blue when cooked if you add vinegar either while cooking it or once it is cold.
You can counteract this colour change to a certain extent by adding a little red currant juice while cooking the cabbage.

If you flavour it with lemon juice instead, of vinegar it remains red.

Red cabbage is called Rotkraut or Blaukraut in German. (Red cabbage or blue cabbage)

I thought this was a version of Bridget Jones' blue soup when I read the title.

No idea what a mooli is either. These things don't get to Germany until about 15 years after the rest of the world.

The German name, according to Wiki is "Winterrettich" (winter radish). It looks white in the pictures. Does it really turn purple?

Ww2, do you have a colour-blind friend or neighbour? My DGS who is partially colour-blind would lap it up!

JackyB

The German name, according to Wiki is "Winterrettich" (winter radish). It looks white in the pictures. Does it really turn purple?

There they are?

Oh. Thank you. This was the picture I saw.

May I ask, apart from the colour, did the soup taste nice? That would override the eye ache for me. I'm presuming it's a yes since you even bothered to freeze it. Methinks many popular and well known dishes were discovered by happy accident.

Yes it’s fine. I like celeriac which we often have. The mooli is honestly best grated into salads I’ve decided, which I do anyway. It has a very delicate taste not at all like radish I don’t think and is a colourful addition to salad. It must as someone said be full of antioxidants as look at its colour?

I'd eat it, it sounds interesting - in fact I'd probably prefer it to white soup ?

Put an eye mask on while enjoying it. Sorry to bring it low, but I thought of what happened when you visited the loo....

Close your eyes. I do that anyway when I eat broth or soup and light is reflecting onto it.

No, celeriac does not turn blue or any other colour unless boiled with beetroot, or apparently mooli - whatever they are.

Many years ago, a research project, which may have been done at Glasgow University consisted in serving various dishes in a dining room lit by blue and purple lighting.

Most of the participents were unable to touch a number of the dishes, although everyone in the control group who were eating in a normally lit room could do so.

The sight of the food we eat is just as important as its texture, taste or smell, so in order to eat the rest of a purple soup OP you will probably either have to wear a blindfold, a pair of very dark glasses or experiment with purple lighting, which should have the effect of turning your purple soup white to look at, and make it possible (perhaps) for you to eat and enjoy it.

Thanks for that tip about red cabbage grandtanteJE65 I love red cabbage but would prefer it stayed red rather than taking on that blue colour.

Urmstongran

Or wing of bat and eye of snake ...

Ha haaa! Perfect . I wonder if you had some of those plastic toffee papers over your eyes (like at Christmas time when we were kids) the tone could be neutralised?!

Calistemon

I'd eat it, it sounds interesting - in fact I'd probably prefer it to white soup ?

I ordered parsnip soup today, expecting it to be cream-coloured and spicy but it was orange (and not spicy).
Was there a stray carrot masquerading as a parsnip lurking in the kitchen, I wonder?