Soup recipes

Gingernutmeg

There's a lovely recipe in one of the Covent Garden books for parsnip, lemon and leek soup.

25g butter
450g parsnips
3 leeks
1 litre veg stock
rind and juice of half a lemon
1 bay leaf
150ml cream
salt

Melt butter and cook the parsnips and leeks, then add the stock, lemon and bay leaf. Simmer until the veg is soft, then blend, add the cream and season to taste.

This is one of my favourite soups and I make it all year, often without the cream and it's just as good It's not heavy at all.

quick-learner

My soup is too thick!!!

I have blended it but could do with being a little thinner??

What can I use to do this?

New to making soup and this is the first one I've made, its a vegetable one (easy) made in the slow cooker

Any advice greatly appreciated

purplepatch

Just add some vegetable stock gradually until it gets to the required consistency. Or even water will do the job.

donna73

i often make homemade soup, sooooo much nicer than tinned stuff!

my neighbour and i used to do soup swapping last year, whenever one of us had extra in the pot we'd take some next door. great way to try new recipes, and it often seemed to arrive just when i was wondering what on earth we were going to eat!
such a shame shes moved away!!

quick-learner

purplepatch wrote: »

Just add some vegetable stock gradually until it gets to the required consistency. Or even water will do the job.

Thanks purplepatch

I was hoping I could use a little water, no stock left!! didn't want to try and ruin the soup, I would eat it thick as it is, but the kids won't they looked puzzled at it in the pan:rotfl:

LJM

that sounds lovely

Solwaykid

Hi, I love making my own soup and rarely follow a recipe, however.. Need some help with this one.. I made sweet potato soup (recipe from another thread) and it was truly awful. I'd already frozen some before I tried it and am loathe to throw it out, what can I add to make it less sweet, less baby puree,less yuk? (No dietary restrictions.)
Hope someone can help,
Ta, Sol x

Gingernutmeg

I make a soup with sweet potatoes, although I must admit I wouldn't use them on their own. I saute off an onion and some garlic, and some celery if I've got some in, then add a good spoonful of cajun spice (I like the Fiddes Payne Cajun rub), along with some red pepper, carrots, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash. I simmer this with veg stock until soft, then blend it, and it makes a very delicious soup.

Perhaps you could saute off some onion and garlic, then add some spices and the sweet potato puree along with a bit more stock. If you whizz it though the blender it might give you a tastier soup that's a bit less 'gooey'

Solwaykid

Thanks gingernutmeg,
Well there was onions and possibly garlic in it to begin with and it's been through the blender but I like the sound of making it spicy! I'll see what I've got in and give it a whirl - can't bear to waste food!

Vashti

Fan-blooming -tastic soup recipe.

Half an hour..if that...but Beware! It does make you fart, a little!
One Savoy Cabbage
One Leek
One pack smart price unsmoked bacon
2 x Ham stock cube
Lea and Perrins
Dried Herbs, in every store cupboard



Gently fry bacon bits. Add herbs. Add leek. Add potato. Add chopped savoy cabbage, (all of it, yellow stalk, and wash the green outer leaves, don't chuck 'em cos they look nibbled by something) Saute for a min or two, then add two or three pints of water with a couple of stock cubes, simmer for 20 mins, add a good squirt of L&P, then liquidise.

Serve with a dollop of cream


Yummy scrumptious