Bottom of the fridge soup suggestions

bouicca21

I once tried to feed pur!ed sprouts to a baby. It was not a success.

JIL

Slinky wrote: »

Has anybody ever tried using up sprouts in soups? I had some in the fridge but didn't include them, not sure if they'd be bitter.

I made a brussel sprout, chestnut and cheese soup. It was ok, not the best I have ever tasted. I think if you are making it to use them up, the flavour of the sprout needs a bit of disguising, so add cream or cream cheese, and cheese and black pepper. Or a bit of smoky bacon?

Savannah02K

There's a fabulous Delia Smith sprout soup that I make. Check her website. I've served it to several friends/family and no on ever guesses it's made with sprouts, the most common guess is asparagus. It freezes beautifully too. I don't bother with the sprout garnish though, I'm a garnish free zone!

Also, another trick. When I cook pasta, vegetables, potatoes etc, I drain the cooking water into a jug, leave it to cool and then pour into large yoghurt pots (the 500ml ones). Those then get popped into freezer so that next time I make soup, I can use that liquid as my stock. It's got all the goodness of the veggies that were cooked in it, and some of the starch if it was pasta or potato water. By only using the yoghurt pots I know at a glance what it is too!

JIL

This is on the grocery challenge. It may be useful?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=75363149&postcount=9

Gloria_Steeth

Banana soup, anyone? No? Ok, soup yourself!

There's an article in today's Guardian on the same theme as this thread about making soup with odds and ends:
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/feb/07/dont-bin-the-bacon-how-to-turn-the-10-most-wasted-ingredients-into-delicious-soups

Must admit it wouldn't have crossed my mind to use up bananas in a soup, but Tom Kitchin's Thai Banana Soup recipe looks quite easy, if anyone's feeling adventurous...?

Artytarty

I'm pretty useless at soups.
Whenever I try to combine various veg and blitz it, I end up,with murky brownish green soup, most unappetising and then I won't eat it!
I only succeed with "pure soups" such as tomato or mushroom.

JIL

Artytarty wrote: »

I'm pretty useless at soups.
Whenever I try to combine various veg and blitz it, I end up,with murky brownish green soup, most unappetising and then I won't eat it!
I only succeed with "pure soups" such as tomato or mushroom.

I'm not keen on fully blitzed soup, reminds me of baby food. I like to blend half in order to leave some texture. If I make tomato soup, I boil up some pearl barley to add to the blended version (I used to use ebly but it's quite hard to get hold of)

-taff

Artytarty wrote: »

I'm pretty useless at soups.
Whenever I try to combine various veg and blitz it, I end up,with murky brownish green soup, most unappetising and then I won't eat it!
I only succeed with "pure soups" such as tomato or mushroom.

Some veg just isn't meant to be combined..:)
Have a look on one of those recipe finder websites, put in what you've got and see what recipes come up.