soup ideas using minimum ingredients

kazrem

My favourite one is basic pea but with roasted garlic...
The next time you're doing a roast, bung a whole head of garlic in with the veg. (or whenever you are using the oven - but wrap the garlic in foil in this case, with a bit of oil in the parcel)
Take it out after an hour, and keep aside.
That evening, or the next day, boil up a small bag of peas (200g?) with a stock cube and about 500ml water, and add in the roasted garlic (removing the skin first this bit is fun as you can squeeze the garlic cloves!). Boil all together until the peas are cooked, then use a blender and liquidise it.
Awesome, tasty, very easy, 3 ingredients (not inc. water), and (maybe? i hope!) healthy!
The original recipe also called for parmesan to be shaved in, but i think it tastes fine without. I usually use a chicken stock cube. Add more water if desired...
and enjoy! (my brother, who hates peas, really likes this too, and the garlic is soft-flavoured not harsh thanks to the roasting).

Thank you to all previous posts for the new ideas!

Pennylane

Our all time-fave is
CURRIED PARSNIP - thick, sweet and delicious!

Parsnips, onions, apple and water & seasoning.

Do a search for the recipe & you'll see how easy it is.

Pennylane

Whoops! You will of course also need CURRY POWDER!

PasturesNew

Parsnip's taste lovely. Parsnip soup can be made easiest by slicing them up thin then just boiling/simmering them in water with a couple of stock cubes of your choosing.

After that it depends on what you want/what equipment you've got as you can just mash it all down with a fork regularly, or blend it.

belfastgirl23

fry an onion, add red lentils and stock and cook till lentils are soft Golden lentil soup.

Caterina

Pasta and potato
Fry chopped onion and cubed potatoes in a spoonful of oil, add water, stock cube, a shot of tomato puree and broken spaghetti. Grate whatever cheese you have in fridge on top of soup (optional, but adds protein content).

Creamy tomato:
Tin of tomatoes, onion, hot water, stock cube. Let cook for 10 minutes, take away from flame, add a tbsp philadelphia or other cream cheese. Great stuff to add fresh basil if you have any (optional)


Rice and peas
Fry chopped onion and handful of frozen peas in some oil, add hot water, add enough rice to make it soupy (not too much or it becomes pappy), stock cube. Grated cheese on top. If no rice available, broken spaghetti or crushed pasta shapes also ok.

Always good to add chopped fresh parsley if possible, adds iron and vitamins (I read somewhere that a tablespoonful of chopped parsley contains more nutrients than an iceberg lettuce!).

If no onion available, garlic will do, or leeks, or spring onions. Use imagination!

Buon appetito

Caterina

competitionscafe

kazrem wrote: »

My favourite one is basic pea but with roasted garlic...

That's one of my favourites too Recipe and picture here:
http://dressingfordinner.blogspot.com/2008/01/one-year-old.html
Say's to use cream (optional) but I think it's better (and healthier) without.

beemuzed

All these sound really good! However, title of thread reminded me of the children's story of the tramp who claimed to make "stone soup"!!! (He just used water and a stone, but persuaded the old woman who wouldn't feed him to add a little of this and that to "improve" it - mean old dear eventually made a good hearty veg. soup without realising it!)

iamstacie

I've made quite a few basic soups recently (leek, mushroom, carrot & corriander, broccoli) and they've all had the same base of 2 chopped onions and 2-3 chopped potatoes, fried off in a bit of oil for a few minutes, then throw in the veg and simmer in veg stock for 20 mins, then blend. Herbs are an optional extra. Quick, easy and very very tasty.

Spicy parsnip is next on my list and will have the same potato, onion & veg stock base

DKLS

I have been worked on creating the 16 min soup.

Sample recipe:

Leeks
Onion
Potatoes
Salt, Pepper, Bay leaf, sprinkle of mixed herbs, and a veggie stock cube
In Pressure cooker for 10 mins, quick whizz with the hand held blender.

Lovely soup, cheap and easy.