Vegetarian soups without a blender?

ghostmadlittlemiss

Does anyone have any good recipes for vegetarian soup that can be made without a blender or food processer? I'm getting my mum's spare at the end of this month but I'm looking for something to keep my going until then.
Kayleigh

Cheapskate

Hi Kayleigh
All my soups tend to be made up, depending on what's lurking, but you can start with chopping finely any veg you've got, including an onion, fry in a bit of oil, then add water & stock (I use stock cubes), pepper (add salt at the end or in your dish). To change the variety, add different herbs or spices (basil or oregano with tomato/pasta soups, parsley/sage/thyme with most basic veg, curry/chilli powder for a bit of a kick!), fresh/tinned tomatoes, bit of quorn/soya mince/tinned pulses (e.g. butter beans, chickpeas, kidney beans etc) for protein, odds & ends of dried pasta or rice. Bring to the boil, turn right down as low as heat will go, lid on & leave for at least 40 mins, longer is better. I've often used a potato masher at the end of cooking - it doesn't blend like a blender, but the results are ok if you don't want big chunks in your soup.
My mum used to do a fab potato & leek soup, with which she served a separate bowl of grated cheddar for people to sprinkle on top of their soup - it was still hot enough to melt the cheese - gosh, I can almost taste it now!
Hope this helps!

Stephen_Leak

A sieve and a spoon work well, albeit not quite as quickly. However, this one doesn't need blending.

CREAMED SWEET CORN SOUP

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

1 egg
200g (½ a 400g tin) of creamed sweet corn
1 vegetable stock cube
500ml of water
Ground pepper to taste

METHOD

Break the egg into a bowl and pick out any bits of shell. Mix up the egg.

Put the sweet corn into a saucepan on a medium heat. Dissolve the stock cube in the water. Add the stock. Mix thoroughly. Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling (simmering). Continue to cook, stirring as the mixture boils, for about 10 to 15 minutes.

Slowly pour the egg into the soup, stirring gently all the time to form ‘strings' of cooked egg. If the soup reaches the desired consistency before you’ve added all of the egg, stop adding the egg.

Season with the pepper.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

For the thick version of this soup, add ½ a tablespoon of cornflour mixed with a little water towards the end of the cooking.

clutterydrawer

If you do lentil and tomato you can force it through a sieve if you want it smooth, bit of a faff though. I'm afraid i just leave mine lupy

annie-c

A potato masher will work fine

mrssnowy_2

annie-c wrote: »

A potato masher will work fine

Great minds think alike!

-or a fork!

ghostmadlittlemiss

Thanks, I'll try some of those when I get my veg on Tues. I knew there must be a way of doing it. After all, soup existed long before food processors. I'm just not all that big on common sense. Thanks for all your help.
Kayleigh

hamstercheeks_2

3 leeks (or 4 if small 0- prefereably organic as they taste better) - chopped small
3/4 carrots - largish - chopped
3 potatoes -largish - chopped
half a swede - chopped
one cup of lentils - boil for 10 mins in unsalted water and drain

fry leek in butter until soften then add other veggies

then add lentils

then add 10 or 12 oxo veggie stock cubes c00k for approx 3 hours
lovely

plus add salt n pepper

PasturesNew

If you're close to an Argos, you can check out their stick blender - just £3.39 in the sale instead of £6.99:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4219873/Trail/searchtext%3EBLENDER.htm

recovering_spendaholic

I make carrot and barley soup and it doesn't need blending. You just grate a lb of carrots and put them in a pan with a finely chopped onion, a chopped stick of celery and half a mug full of barley, add about 2.5 pints of vegetarian stock, salt and pepper and a little corriander if you have it (but its fine if you don't). Bring it all to the boil and then simmer for about 2 hours and it's lovely!

ghostmadlittlemiss

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you're close to an Argos, you can check out their stick blender - just £3.39 in the sale instead of £6.99:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4219873/Trail/searchtext%3EBLENDER.htm

I'm not sure if I am but I'll go looking. Google Maps' is giving me 2 different results, one which hasn't been built yet! :eek: I'll go for a wander and find out.
Kayleigh