Vegetable Soup Recipe Help Please!!!

macma

I used to follow a Nigella recipe for stock which involved 2-3 hrs cooking,with the price of electricity I now do it in the slow cooker.It takes longer but less fuel.
I just break up 1-3 carcasses (chucked in freezer 'til required)add a couple of carrots,onion.peppercorns (6)celery and leek if handy.Pinch of salt and let it chugg (culinary term )all day.Strain and I freeze 'til needed.
We've lived off soup this winter,we have an allotment so handy for veg.I agree with most of the above but would go easy on the turnip/swede as it can add bitterness.
I also have a rummage in the freezer for bits of meat that look a little tired and add that to soup,bacon bits also add flavour.
A can of butter beans whizzed to a paste will thicken it nicely.:)

shopndrop

macma wrote: »

I just break up 1-3 carcasses (chucked in freezer 'til required)add a couple of carrots,onion.peppercorns (6)celery and leek if handy.Pinch of salt and let it chugg (culinary term )all day.Strain and I freeze 'til needed.

So is it OK to freeze the carcass and then re-freeze once it is made into stock?

macma

Well Nigella does it:)
and I haven't killed anyone yet

shopndrop

Thank you. Will give it a go when we have chicken at the weekend.

jenniewb

Don't forget: Covent Garden Soups also have their own recipy book!

fjm78

Aw Guys... thank you so much for all your replies!!! I have not been on here since as I thought I would get an email when people posted and was thinking nobody else had posted anything. Thanks for your time and ideas x

bulchy

I've just made a chunky Italian veg soup for tomorrow nights tea.
Diced carrot, turnip, onion, celery and peppers, simmered in veg stock and a tin of tomato's. Once its cooked I will add a tin of mixed beans, I sometimes use 'toddlers pasta' you know the small dried pasta you get for toddlers? This is just to make it more filling and add carbs for my son (type 1 diabetic and bread is not enough carbs to fill him)
Forgot to say, i put garlic in too. Celery salt gives soup a nice flavour too, especially Leek and potato :-)

Enjoy
Sue

Starrystarrynight

My Mam used to make the most lovely soup. She'd boil up a ham shank (which used to stink the house out, but was worth it) for stock. She'd soak split red lentils overnight, and then put them in with chunks of potato, carrots, leeks and turnip. It was so yummy and, now you've reminded me of it, I may make a pot at the weekend :-)

shammyjack

Made this yesterday but added extra garlic and 200gms of finally diced Black Forest Ham from Lidls that was 3 months out of date ( Smelt as sweet as a nut )

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LUSH !


shammy

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I do my HM soup overnight in my slow cooker.I chop up any veg that is past its best and looking a bit dejected in the fridge then chuck it into my Sc along with chicken stock which I get for free from my previously SCooked chicken.I SC the chicken and drain off all the liquid and put into a jug.When cold I skim off any fat and the remaing jelly I put into a bag and freeze until I need it for my HM soup.I worked it out that HM soup can be made for around 20p a litre and when I make it I make as much as I can and freeze the surplus in zip-lock freezer bags .A friend bought my The Soup Bible book and its brilliant Basically though I just chuck what ever I have into the pot and last thing at night switch it on and it cooks gently for very little electricity over night In the morning having ensured that the veg is soft and cooked through I whizz around three quarters of it up in my blender and return it to the pot and stir through to mix all together.Cheap as chips and far better for you than tinned stuff,cheaper and free from additives as well.I will make soup from almost anything and its a great filler if you have it as a starter before dinner or with some bread for lunch.I have in my freezer at the moment three litres of leek and potato soup made from a couple of reduced price leeks and some spuds that were starting to sprout a bit .far better than binning them and it won't go off in the freezer.