Easy Soup RecipesEasy Soup RecipesSince getting my lovely food mixer I've moved on from cakes and bread to having a go at making soup. Just by chance I mentioned to a friend how we are loving our home made bread and she suggested I make homemade soup to go with it. I'd never even thought of making soup before as it's so easy to just open a can
However I got a really easy recipe for courgette soup, so I went out and bought a smaller food processor than the huge old thing that is lurking in one of my kitchen cupboards and is so ugly I wouldn't want to leave it out on the worktop. Got myself a nice Kenwood processor with a blender and the soup was delicious. Someone else gave me a recipe for an easy carrot and leek soup and I made that yesterday and it's very nice, but I could do with some more easy recipes. I don't want to be faffing around for ages with lots of different ingredients as it does my head in. I've been looking online but a lot of the recipes, although fairly easy, seem to need quite a variety of ingredients and I wondered if anyone has any easy recipes or knows of any books that are full of easy peasy ones for lazy cooks like me Lyn
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Re: Easy Soup RecipesI make a lot of soups but one of the easiest ones I know is green pea soup.
I dice a large onion, little oil in a pan, low heat, saute onion till cooked, peel a couple of large potatoes, cut into chunks add to pan, then use a bag of frozen peas add those, add about a pint or so of vegetable stock (can you tell I hate measuring things?!) and simmer until potatoes and peas soft, blitz it all in your lovely food processor. I know this will sound a bit like marmite (love it or hate it), but while this all going on I grill fish fingers and cut them into squares and when soup is served up, use as croutons on top of soup. I do add salt and pepper whilst cooking the soup through, add as you wish. Really nice on a winters evening. Sure it would be nice with some ham pieces in it. http://www.freshstartforhens.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Easy Soup RecipesOooh, I love pea soup. I add some mint a cumin to mine and then a swirl of sour cream on top
One of my current favourites (which I have just had for my lunch) is roasted butternut squash soup. I peel and chop a butternut into large chunks, place on an oven tray with a few cloves of garlic and an onion cut into quarters. Drizzle with olive oil and roast in a hot oven for about 40mins until beginning to brown. Then I liquidize it all with some hot vegetable stock and chopped red chilli (optional) until it is the desired consistency. Sometimes I also add some sweetcorn which is lovely too Lucy x
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Re: Easy Soup RecipesThe soup that always seems to turn out best for me is leek and potato.
I always make around 2 litres and freeze some. It makes enough for 6 large bowls. Use pre-boiled potatoes. 2 or 3 medium to large spuds, or several small ones. Fry leeks, 2 small, or 1 large along with a couple of onions. Add seasoning, usually pepper for me. Add in the pre-boiled spuds. I use vegetable and/or chicken oxo, 2 will do, along with a fair amount of liquid. Try 750ml to start. Pour onto the leeks, onions and potatoes. Add some milk. As I said my recipe aims for around 2 litres of soup, so you have to use your judgement in how much you want. Can be topped up with more water. If I want a chunkier soup, I get the potato masher in there and make sure I leave some chunky pieces. Otherwise I get the blender with a big foot in there. And that's about it. Over the past year or 2 I have gone from being a soup-maker virgin to quite adept :) Once you have a basic formula, it becomes easy to experiment. Re: Easy Soup Recipes
We love butternut squash soup too and use much the same recipe. We add cummin, turmeric and chillie to make a sort of curry soup - delicious. Michael
Re: Easy Soup RecipesThanks very much I'll give some of them a try
If anyone wants an easy courgette one the recipe I used was very simple 1kg courgettes, sliced 1 onion, chopped 1tsp curry powder 500ml vegetable stock salt and pepper to taste Fry the onion in a bit of oil or whatever till soft, add the rest of the ingredients, bring to the boil, turn down to a simmer for 25mins. Blitz in the blender when cooled. Done Lyn
_______________________________________________ Gold/White Shih Tzu, Green Cheek Conure Re: Easy Soup RecipesOne of my favourites is curried parsnip soup. Sauté some onion, add chunky diced parsnip and potatoes and a tsp mild curry powder. Cook with lid on 5 mins, then add veg or chick stock, season, simmer til veg are tender. Remove half the veg, liquidise the rest of the soup then return the veg chunks. Add a splash of milk, check seasoning and enjoy!
Re: Easy Soup RecipesWhat is veg stock? Is it just the what you've boiled your spuds in or something special? Oh, (light dawns) do you mean a stock cube.
And how big is the bag of frozen peas? I buy huge bags. We used to get small bags in the days when there were no freezers just a tiny frozen food bit in the fridge, but when I looked while on holiday in a self catering flat I couldn't get small bags so had to buy tinned.
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Re: Easy Soup RecipesMost vegetable water can be used. Starchy foods like corn and potatoes, I wouldn't use the water from them. I don't know why, just brought up that way :)
Maybe the extra starch is a no-no?
Re: Easy Soup RecipesEasy peasy carrot & corriander....
Heat about 1 heaped tspn corriander powder in a little butter or marge, then add about a 1lb of chopped carrot. Sweat them down for about five minutes then add boiling water to about level and crumble in a vegetable stock cube. When the carrot is cooked (10-15 mins), blend it all together then check seasonings and add a little salt and more corriander if liked. I do the same sort of thing with garam masala and mixed root veg.
Re: Easy Soup RecipesI quite often make a red lentil and veg soup. I chop up a large sweet Spanish onion, carrot, celery sticks, garlic cloves, a turnip and a large flowery potato, sweat all these down in a large pan with the lid on… low heat required, it’ll take about ten minutes or so. Top up with water and a stock cube to taste and bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer and add about 100g red rinsed red lentils, simmer until the veg are cooked then blitz. I also add a load of chopped chorizo at the sweating down stage along with a good squeeze of tomato puree to make a more Mediterranean feel soup.
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Re: Easy Soup RecipesI make soup out of any bits of veg I have in. Can't really post a recipe, all my soups are different. I use curry powder, turmeric, whole grain mustard, veg stock cubes, tomato ketchup, packet sauce mix, garlic puree, anything. Zap it with a stick blender, eat with a piece of wholemeal bread.
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