Instant Pot ACE Blender Root Vegetables Soup + Video

Instant Pot ACE Blender Root Vegetables Soup is a silky and creamy lower carb soup made from vegetables which grow under the ground. This post has been sponsored by Instant Brands.

When Instant Pot sent me the Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender last year to check out, I thought well, this looks like a nice blender for under $100.

As a long time Vitamix owner I didn’t really see that I would have any use for Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender.

I played around with it for a while and then created a few recipes, like my Instant Pot Egg Bites and then cooked them in the Instant Pot.

 

Ingredients for Root Vegetable Soups

• Turnips
• Celeriac
• Parsnips – adds sweetness
• Carrots – adds color and sweetness
• Onions
• Vegetable Broth – Just use Better than Bouillon Vegetable Base or the Better than Bouillon Chicken Base..
• Spices
• Aromatics

Basically, this Root Vegetables Soup can be made with any variety of root vegetables. Sweet potatoes, white potatoes, rutabaga, etc., can be used.

Turnips and rutabaga can be used interchangeably. Make sure to include at least one sweet vegetable like carrots, parsnips or sweet potatoes.

 

I use my Vitamix mostly for making smoothies and my VitaMix Hummingbird Food (recipe posting shortly).

I have a second container which I use for grinding grains and rice into flour. It is a rare occasion that my Vitamix is used for soup.

Function of Instant Pot Ace Blender

• Nut Milks – almond, nut, rice, soy, oat
• Purées – like baby food, pâtés, applesauce 
• Ice Cream and Frozen Treats
• Hot Soups – chunky and blended
• Beverages – fruit juice, green smoothies
• Dips, Spreads, Sauces
• Nut butters and even plain ole butter!

Anything the Vitamix can do, the Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender can do.

It wasn’t until I decided to play around with the “Soup” function on the Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender, that my world changed.

What I did not anticipate was how much I would love my ACE, especially since I already owned a VitaMix.

 

On the recipe card below, I have suggested various combinations of seasonings.

Change up your aromatics whenever you like.

Each time you make this soup, you can choose who you want to flavor it, or keep it the same.

 

I kept this Instant Pot Blender Root Vegetables Soup vegetarian and used Better than Bouillon Vegetable Base, rather than a liquid broth.

The base keeps in the fridge for months, so it is very economical to pull out a little and mix it with water.

For a chicken base, try using Better than Bouillon Chicken Base instead of the vegetable base.

 

Now that all the ingredients have been added……

Herein lies the huge difference between the two blenders. Soup.

 

Besides the usual capabilities of a regular blender, you can use this powerful Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender for specific functions.

There are two soup settings on the Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender.

Soup 1 is used for chunky style soup like chicken noodle soup, minestrone soup, Armenian Lentil Soup and other types of soup, where you want texture and chunks. Even soup made with rice can be made in the Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender.

The Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender first heats up to boiling and then cooks the ingredients with heat, not with friction, so the vegetables and chicken stay in tact.

 

The Vitamix uses friction to heat.

Have you ever made a green smoothie in the Vitamix? If so, you will know that in order to break the cell wall of the vegetable and completely pulvarize it, the Vitamix has remain on at high speed.

You’ve got to really watch and make sure you don’t go past the point of where a cold smoothie becomes a warm and frothy smoothie.

Function of Instant Pot Ace Blender

• Nut Milks – almond, nut, rice, soy, oat
• Purées – like baby food, pâtés, applesauce 
• Ice Cream and Frozen Treats
• Hot Soups – chunky and blended
• Beverages – fruit juice, green smoothies, ,
• Dips, Spreads, Sauces
• Nut butters and even plain ole butter!

Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender has a hidden electric element in the base of the pitcher.

 

So, imagine leaving the motor on in the Vitamix and cooking raw veggies until completion. They would be super foamy.

This is where the Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender excels by mountains.

The Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender is hands down superior to Vitamix in the soup battle.

To make Root Vegetables Soup in the Vitamix, I would have had to stand over the sound of the loud Vitamix, pureeing the ingredients.

They would still be raw, so I would have to continue to stand there and wait for them to cook.

Imagine how frothy and foamy my soup would become. Trust me, it is nasty.

 

The Soup 2 feature is used for creamy soup. Unlike the Vitamix, the Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender first heats up the ingredients and cooks them to completion and then the last little bit, it quickly blends the ingredients to make a creamy soup.

This is not a continuous action however. The Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender will begin to blend and then stop and then start again. This prevents the soup from becoming foamy.

 

The controlled temperature cooking cycle gives the ingredients enough time to cook before beginning to puree.

 

For me, as a very busy person who doesn’t always have time to use up all the veggies in my fridge, the Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender has been so incredible.

I cannot tell you how many times Ed and buy buy all kinds of vegetables and take out some meat to create a new recipe and time gets the better of us.

This is when I will toss stuff into my Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender, walk away and come back to hot soup.

 

I love taking off the top and seeing all that steam.

 

The glass container/pitcher is super heavy.

It has to be. Remember the electric element inside the base?

This makes the container very heavy, which is a bit difficult to handle, but totally necessary as tempered glass must be used, so that it will not shatter.

 

I love using True Orange to add a pop of flavor. It is all the flavor of a freshly picked orange, without adding any liquid.

Freshly grated nutmeg is awesome on winter soups.

 

Watch my video and then scroll to the bottom for the printable recipe card.

 

Ed can easily handle hot soup.

More Instant Pot ACE Blender Recipes to Make:

[Adding shortly]

The bottom line – people tell me they have a Vitamix and should they buy an Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender.

The answer is definitely. If only for making soup, this small price tag is worth it.

Kitchen Equipment and Essentials

• Instant Pot Ace 60 Blender
• J.A. Henckels Classic 8 inch Chef’s Knife
• Amco Advanced Performance 18/10 Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons
• Simply Gourmet (Dry) Stainless Steel Measuring Cups
• Anchor Hocking Glass (Liquid) Measuring Cups
• Porcelain & Bamboo Salt Box with Spoon
• Gravity Electric Salt and Pepper Grinder
• Microplane Stainless Steel Zester for grating nutmeg
• True Orange

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