Soup recipes

Tomato, Lentil and Basil soup

Made this today and it worked out pretty well.

Ingredients:
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
150g dried red lentils
500ml vegetable stock
1 onion
3 carrots
Few fresh basil leaves

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This is how I made it but the pro's on here might have a better way.

Chop the onion and carrots. Cook in a saucepan with a little oil for 5 minutes, then add the tomatoes and simmer.

In another pan boil the lentils in the vegetable stock for 20 minutes (you may have to add a bit more hot water towards the end).

After 20 minutes take the lentils and add them to the pan of vegetables and continue to simmer for another 10 minutes.

After that add some finely chopped fresh basil, stir and the put the entire mix through the blender.

Serve with some nice wholemeal bread.

Hope you enjoy.

Cullumpster wrote:

There was a soup website on radio 2 yesterday.

www.soupsong.com

There are loads of different recipies on there

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been looking for a recipe for this for ages:

http://www.soupsong.com/rchickn5.html

Mullagatawny soup!

Got this one from a magazine (Red or Eve? can't remember) - made it and it's easy and yummy.

Moroccan-Style Lentil Soup
Serves 4

Ingredients:
2tbsp olive oil
2 leeks, thinly sliced
2 carrots, thinly sliced
2 stalks celery, thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1.25 (36fl oz) litres chicken or veg stock
175g (6 oz) red lentils, rinsed
2 tsp harissa paste
Juice of half a lemon
2 tbsp chopped coriander or parsley (I used both)
salt + pepper

Method:
- Heat oil in a large pan over a medium heat
- Add leeks, carrots, celery and garlic and cook for 5 mins
- Add lentils and harissa
- Add stock and bring to the boil
- Simmer partially covered, for 20 mins, or until lentils are tender
- Season to taste with salt + fresh ground pepper
- Add lemon juice
- Stir in fresh chopped herbs

It says to serve with flat bread, although obviously any will do. It freezes well - I freeze it in portions to take into work for lunch.

Yum! Enjoy!

Wirenth wrote:

Anyone got any recipes for using up Miso (sp??) stock?

Thanks

The soup shop near where I work does a miso soup with cubes of tofu, rice noodles, spring onions and coriander chucked in - not tried making it myself though! You could probably substitute tofu for chicken if you don't like tofu.

There are some posts on soups in the main Index for slow cooker recipes, and also other threads on soups, both of which can be found in:-


The Complete Slow Cooker Collection


HTH