Soup recipes

AMIE399

I Made Pea And Ham Soup For The Frst Time Yesterday.. I Just Normaly Make Veg Or Chicken Soup.... But It Came Out Sooo Yummy !!!!
Think Im Going To Make Pinks Soup Next

Anne_Marie_2

As other posters have said, you can make soup out of anything that you have lying about, and I do this frequently to use up left over veggies. Also if I don't have time to do anything with veggies and know they will go off, make soup and freeze, rather than waste them. Blitz the soup if you don't like it chunky, freeze in small portions if you can. Also if the soup is "condensed", really thick and chunky that you can dance on. Freeze it like that, saves space in the freezer...you can always add water when it's defrosted.
Don't add cream, yoghourt etc to soups for freezing, as it will separate. Better to add when defrosted.

bobbadog

I think you're all very very wonderful! Will have a go this weekend and make a batch for work next week - hope I can find some soup-sized boxes for the freezer! Thanks again! xxx

kittycat07

The covent garden soup books have lots of yummy ideas - maybe get that out of the library. Otherwise I tend to boil up chicken bones to make a stock and then add whatever veg I have about - particularly lovely are onions, carrots, leeks, swede, parsnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips - basically a hearty load of root veg. I find it keeps me really lovely and full and I add no salt at all so know that it's all healthy (which often means I manage to justify a second bowl...!!)

jinny

Hi, Im jinny, pleased to meet you all. This is my first post on this fab site, so do forgive me if this receipe has been posted before;

chop 1 elderly iceberg lettuce (mine was a morrisons yellow sticker)

chop 1 medium onion

add 1 ham stock cube

cover with cold water

salt and pepper to taste

boil in large pan for 20mins or until soft

dont be put off at this stage, it looks awful, like a pond

add 1 tin of peas drained I use marrowfat

cook for a further 5mins

cool slightly then blend

It turns into a lovely green colour, and tastes just like pea n ham soup.

skipkoo

That sounds nice! I am just about to go shopping, so will look out for cheap lettuce.
Thanks
Skipkoo

Bargain_Rzl

Ticklemouse wrote: »

I also only use lower salt boullion veg stock granules if I don't use a HM stock - not very salty at all. My mum still uses oxo cubes and although she says she doesn't like salty food, I can't eat it now as I can taste the salt and chemicals in them :eek:

I rarely make HM stock (I don't have a big enought freezer to do it as a matter of course) and always use Kallo stock cubes for my soups. They are fairly low in salt to begin with, but the Low Salt Vegetable Stock Cubes are (obviously) particularly good, and very tasty :drool:

My favourite HM soups are:

Leek and potato
Carrot and coriander
Curried parsnip

I buy my veg very cheap and normally make twice the amount that the recipe suggests.

Montymoo_2

I have homemade soup for my lunch everyday

Generally I use up any vegs thats left in the fridge and then add a couple of tins of tomatoes, couple of potatoes, some herbs, black pepper then top up with water. Cook until the veg has softened and then blitz in the blender.

For portions I used the plastic takeaway containers you can get from pound shops, they take about 500ml of soup (or 3 ladles full) which is precisely the size of my thermous flask

susank

Butternut squash and tomato is wonderful

Just butternut squash, passata tomato (lidl 29p) same amount approx of either hm stock or kallo organic chicken stock cube or what you prefer
1 carrot
1 clove garlic
bit of celery
1 potato

just chop all and put in pan with passata and stock and boil till veg cooked - blitz and serve - wonderful - better than tinned tomato soup anyday

Cat72

I have loads of vegetables to use up so was going to make a soup today.However its lovely and sunny and the idea of my usually heavy veg soup doesnt appeal to me.I dont want to waste my veg so can anyone suggest a good recipe for a summer soup thats not so stodgey .thanks