Quick help please - best flavourings for carrot soup?

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I have friends coming for lunch and am making carrot soup since I have lots of carrots. They are boiling in stock with a leek and an onion and some garlic as I type. What are the nicest flavourings for carrot soup - coriander, cumin, ginger? We will be having it with bread and cheese (Comte and a goats cheese) and leftover lentil salad (Puy lentils with cherry tomatoes, red peppers and red onion).

fresh corriander if you have it.

Cumin is my favourite.

orange is nice. dh prefers it just carrot and onion but he puts maple syrup on eggs so perhaps we should discount his opinion.

Only have frozen fresh coriander, IYSWIM, but it might work. Love cumin but will it go with the cheese?

Fishie, my FIL has maple syrup in his salad dressing (with balsamic and oil)

Unfortunately carrot and orange soup reminds me of home ec at school (and anyway I don't have an orange).

Carrots work well I find.

frozen fresh will be fine

Seriously though, use half orange juice and half stock, and grate the zest of an orange with a fine grater (micro plane type if you have) into the soup, and hey presto! Instant cheer in a bowl.

That sounds much nicer than my home ec version. Too late now (and no oranges) but I will do that next week. Thanks! Today I think it will be fresh coriander and maybe some ginger to give it a bit more of a lift.