Vegetable soup - need ideas.

Frugalista

Yesterday I bought 4 packs of Asda Vegetable Soup Mix (yellow-stickered at 8p :money:- there were crates of the stuff, but my freezer is full at the moment ). Anyway, it contains carrots (34%), swede (31%), potatoes (13%), and flat leaf parsley. Each bag weighs 600g.

OH says he doesn't fancy "ordinary" veg soup but wants something spicy. We like Indian, Moroccan, Mexican, etc, etc, and I have loads of herbs and spices, beans and lentils, tomatoes, passata, etc.

Please, please, can anybody give me some inspiration - Thanks in advance

Grimbal

You could try a variation of this vegetable mulligatawny perhaps? To be honest though, what I would do would be to use just a curry paste, tomatoes, the veg mix & some rice - my work canteen just tends to throw what ever veg they have in there and it always turns out very well.

other ideas that I can think of are:
-stews/casseroles
-veg pie. Cook onion, microwave or steam the veg, make a white sauce & mix together. Top with mashed potato & cheese.

ETA- would boiling it then mashing it altogether work? I've had carrots & swede mashed together before, I don't think potato would be too out of place added into it, lots of s&p&butter and use to accompany main meal?

squeaky

Hiya,

I've tried several of the soups on this site and they've all worked a treat. As an example, my most favourite soup in the world was Heinz Tomato Soup. I made one of the tomato soup recipes from here a few years back - and have never bought Heinz since.

There are loads of vegetable soups collected here by someone who is clearly a soup enthusiast

http://www.soupsong.com/

Kered

Does it have to be soup, I made a veg currie yesterday with pretty much the same ingredients plus a large onion, just par-boil the veg first then add to the chopped onion which has been browning in oil and your preferred mix of spices then add a cup of stock and simmer.

phizzimum

I'd got bored of my usual veggie soup too so this is how I've been varying it recently. I add a little chopped red chilli to the onion when I'm sweating that off - I use whatever veg I have to hand, and usually some lentils too for added protein - then when everything is cooked I add a little from a creamed coconut block (about 25g for a big pot of soup that will last several days)

the chilli and coconut give it a sort of thai flavour regardless of whatever veg it's made with.

Frugalista

Thanks folks - (especially squeaky ).

meritaten

carrots, swede and potatoes can be roasted together with garlic and the chopped parsley added later. delish.
or you can boil it all together and make mash - served with sausages and onion gravy this mash is lovely too. or it makes a great shepherds pie topping.
add a tin of corned beef to this mix and you have a lovely filling for pasties or a pie (I tend to make it into a large pie as am too lazy too faff about with little circles of pastry - plus you get more filling in proportion to the pastry!)
as an alternative this filling can be fried a la bubble and squeek! great with a fried egg or chips!
as you can see I am a big fan of making one recipe do many different meals!

tryingtobegood

Frugalista wrote: »

Yesterday I bought 4 packs of Asda Vegetable Soup Mix (yellow-stickered at 8p :money:- there were crates of the stuff, but my freezer is full at the moment ). Anyway, it contains carrots (34%), swede (31%), potatoes (13%), and flat leaf parsley. Each bag weighs 600g.

OH says he doesn't fancy "ordinary" veg soup but wants something spicy. We like Indian, Moroccan, Mexican, etc, etc, and I have loads of herbs and spices, beans and lentils, tomatoes, passata, etc.

Please, please, can anybody give me some inspiration - Thanks in advance

1.If you have any meat then I would make a stew with the veg in the slow cooker.
2.For soup add some chilli flakes, cumin and red lentils for a spicy lentil soup...made this yetserday!
3.You could also mash these together as an alternative topping for shepherds pie...possibly need to add more potatoes
4. add tomatoes, garlic and pasta to make a minestrone type soup?

Wish I had got these!
HTH

Sublime_2

I do a soup which has chicken/or veg stock, carrots, lentils, cumin, chilli, garam masala, and coconut milk in, based on one from the BBC's Good food site. You could use any combination of vegetables though.

rachbc

had a lovely one in a cafe once that was little cubes of roasted veg, in a tomatoey base with morrocan spicing and cous cous in the soup too - was really unusual and delish

littleminx_2

Squeaky, which recipe is it that you used for the tomato soup?

Many thanks


lm