Save my soup! Soup problems thread.

savingforoz

Try bunging in a peeled and quartered potato and cook until potato cooked, then liquidise.

And a few more red lentils will help too.

deni100

iv added some potato so i'll wait and then liquidise

cheers x

zippychick

instant mash also helps - it disintegrates so you dont see it.

colboy

It will thicken when it is liquidised, also will thicken when being reheated.

lindab15

I often use leftover veggies as the basis for a minestrone - all chopped and sweated along with some garlic and finely chopped bacon / chorizo / salami etc if I have any bits hanging about in the fridge.

Add a tin of chopped tomatoes / passatta etc, plus some broken pasta pieces (all the bits that tend to get left at the bottom of the bag) and/or tinned beans like cannelini/borlotti etc. Stock etc added to get the right consistency.

A real hotch-potch of bits, different every time !

Amazingly, my 'I hate veg' DD1 loves this and actually asks me to make it on occasion !

A real 'bottom of the fridge' soup. The actual soup liquid is liquid - doesn't need thickening - but it's so chock-full of chunky veg and flavour, you feel like you've really had a meal.

Unless you're DD1, and then it's just a snack / starter.

Stephen_Leak

Do a search for soup on these forums, and you will find loads of recipes. A few of them mine, but you can't have everything.

Ninno820

Grating the raw potatoe also helps.

Enjoy trying out new ideas.

carlamagee

hi

ive just made spicy butternut squash and sweet potato soup.
unfortunately, i have went a bit too heavy handed on the chilli, and also have let it reduce for too long (thinking i put the timer on, but didnt!) .....anyone have any ideas as to how i could thin it out a tad and also cool the spicyness down or have i lost it completely!!
i like spicy stuff, but i know the soup would be much nicer without as much of a zing to it!
any ideas welcomed!!

Burlesque_Babe

stock to thin it out and double cream, yoghurt etc to take away the heat.

carlamagee

thanks for quick reply!! i only have soured cream in fridge at the minute.....would that work!?