The recipe of 2024
FREEDOM
SOUP
Meet the Chef
NICK TOET
The proud chef of the Freedom Soup this year was chef and TV presenter Nick Toet. You may know Toet from his own YouTube channel EtenMetNick and the television program Taarten van Babel. The soup was distributed in cans in the run-up to Liberation Day, so that it could be eaten throughout the Netherlands on May 5. At home, in the community center or at a Freedom Table.
For Nick, eating is the way to bring people together. Because according to him, it is precisely at the table that there is attention and space for conversation with each other: "By listening to each other, you find out how someone is doing." He hopes that people will eat together on Liberation Day and enjoy his soup together; that is where connection is created.
For the recipe of the Freedom Soup, the chef was inspired by his grandmother's tomato soup. He added an Asian touch with Korean chili flakes, miso and spring onion. He prefers to keep his recipes simple. You can see that in the Freedom Soup: not too complicated and therefore accessible to everyone. "The more people can make the soup, the more people can enjoy it on May 5 while celebrating freedom together."
GRANDMA'S TOMATO SOUP
WITH AN ASIAN TOUCH
Special encounters at the dinner table, bringing the neighborhood closer together and conversations about themes that you don't think about every day; freedom, lack of freedom, what does that mean in your life? With a freedom meal you expand your world. And are you organizing one? Then you are the driving force behind a new Hague tradition. And that brings - in addition to eternal fame - many grateful fellow citizens with it!
Nick's Freedom Soup for 6 people: Tomato soup with miso and spring onion
Ingredients
2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 leeks, washed and cut in half rings
3 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp smoked paprika powder
1 tbsp Korean chili flakes (gochugaru) or ½ tbsp chi[1]li flakes
½ tsp dried oregano
2 tbsp miso paste
800 g canned tomatoes
400 ml coconut milk
1 vegetable stock cube
100 g capuchin beans
100 g frozen peas
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp olive oil
3 spring onions, in thin rings
Kitchen utensils:
Soup pan, frying pan/skillet, hand blender
Preparation method
Throw some sunflower oil in the soup pan and throw your chopped onions in there, fry your onions until translucent. Now add your chopped garlic and fry for 1 minute. Throw your chopped leek in there and fry for 4 minutes on low heat until soft.
Throw in your smoked paprika, (Korean) chili flakes, oregano and 2 tablespoons of miso and fry for half a minute. Throw in all your canned tomatoes, along with your coconut milk and stock cube. Break up the tomatoes with your spatula.
Bring everything to a boil. Then immediately turn the heat down so that everything continues to simmer gently. Let it sit for 3 minutes.
Remove your pan from the heat and throw a hand blender through it, until everything is nicely pureed. Egg with it? Then put a frying pan on the stove with 1 tablespoon of oil and fry the eggs into a nice omelette. Omelet ready? Roll it up and cut nice strips. Save them for your garnish.
Add the capuchin beans and peas to your soup and let them warm up. Cut some spring onions into fine rings. Season with salt and pepper if necessary. Soup ready! Throw some in a bowl and add some olive oil with your sliced spring onions and omelette strips.
BUY THE FREEDOM SOUP
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BUY YOUR OWN CAN OR FIND IT SOMEWHERE ON THE MENU.
Here you can see where Freedom Soup was on the menu or for sale in cans in 2024.
If you would like to participate in 2025 and put the freedom soup on the menu and/or sell the cans of soup, please send an email to: axel@Kreativevents.nl
HOSPITALITY
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