Soup recipes

VickyA_2

Crikey! All these recipes look fantastic. I'll have to get cooking some of them next week (when I finish for the Chrsitmas hols!). Has anyone tried to freeze them? Or do some of them not really work? ::)

tinalives

Well I'm making some Chickpea soup to freeze for the first time today, so I'll let you know (that's if it doesn't get eaten first ::)

Galtizz

any one got a scotch brith recipe that freezes.

Just found a recipe for traditional Scotch broth.

Not sure if it will freeze but the site says they re-boil it every day so it must keep well. You could make a bit and try it :-/

(I was looking for the shortbread recipe, but have a look at the Toffee shortcake recipe, looks yumm :P)

16011996

thanks for that, there is a shortbread recipe on here somewhere(un;less its been wiped off) that is easy peasy

6oz flour, 4 oz butter, 2 0z caster sugar.

rub together for ages till sticks together in a batt, flatten, spinkle with sugar and bake in oven for 15-20 mins till golden. is nice dipped in melted choclate too.

Galtizz

Thanks for that. I knew there was one here somewhere but I couldn't find it.

littleangel

Fantastic recipes guys, thank you all!

I'm a soup fanatic but a bit of an impulsive cook, so I can't offer any recipes beyond:

Veg stock (or stock cube)
Vegies in season

Strangely enough, if they're cooked separately before being put in the soup mix, the whole thing ends up tasting better - so I grill my peppers and fry my leeks and roast my butternut squash and then chuck it all in together before the blending begins...

And with soup, like pizza, it's easy to overdo. The Italians have a thing about recipes which means they limit the number of ingredients to enhance the taste.

Soup is fantastic! It keeps in the fridge, it freezes, it will make everyone jealous at work...

elona

I agree about soup making people at work jealous after my husband was raving about having home made pea and ham soup and every other man there went home saying why don't you do that?

If you use a slow cooker it is even more economical and easy.

Batchelors now do a quick soak and no soak dried pea mix and if I add this to chicken or veg stock - add potatoes, onions carrots then it makes a great soup and looks as if I have been slaving over the cooker instead of MSEing.

As I am trying to lose weight I soften veg by putting it in the microwave with water for a few minutes before adding to the heated up slow cooker.

It is a great way to make hubbie feel spoilt and he enjoys the stuff in the slow cooker so much he has been known to start eating soup,curry etc at 7.30 in the morning.

16011996

did the scotch broth, he loved it.

thanks again galtizz.

wisdom_2

I make soup every week to take to work for lunch (saving money). I make a big pan full, and then freeze it in portions.

This week is broccoli & butterbean:

(I’m not very good at amounts, sorry :-[)

1 onion
1 head of broccoli
about a cup of dry butterbeans (if using tins then probably 1)
veggie stock cube
oil

Soak dried butterbeans overnight, drain then boil for 10 minutes then simmer for 20 minutes.

Cut the florets off the broccoli, and chop into very small florets, then cube the stalk.

Fry the onion and broccoli stalk (not florets) in a little oil until the onion is soft. Add a kettle full of boiling water and a veggie stock cube and boil for about 15 minutes, or until broccoli stalks are soft. At this point I add half the cooked beans and blend until smooth. Then I add the rest of the beans and florets and simmer for about 5 minutes to cook the florets.

This week I put in some frozen spinach (as I had some that needed using ::)) which made it very green :-/ so I put in about half a pint of milk to lighten it, which also made it very creamy ;D.

I like beans in soup because when blended they give it a very silky texture.

wisdom_2

Sorry for going off the point a bit but I always buy dried beans, chickpeas, etc as they are cheaper ::) but I find it hard to remember to put them in to soak the night before :-[.

Is there any reason why I couldn’t soak the whole packet, boil them for 10 minutes and then freeze them? ??? That way I could use them straight from the freezer whenever I wanted and wouldn’t have to remember .