Soup recipes

chicken and mushroom soup

CARROT AND CORIANDER soup
1 litre of stock, veg or chicken
1lb carrots
1 onion
1 clove garlic
1 handful fresh coriander
i dont add salt but instead use 1tsp curry powder or juice of half a lime or lemon

chop veg
simmer til soft
blend until smooth.

If you are feeling flash a dollop of cream in the middle is nice when you serve it up

Goes down well with tesco value bread, toasted ;D

I like these recipes. I've never made soup before.
On other moneysaving sites I find it mentioned quite a lot to have a soup and bread night once a week to cut grocery costs.
Will go and bump crusty bread to go with this.

I am silly.  I'm on an enforced fast from this morning to tomorrow lunchtime and I'm here looking at recipes.  But hey, I'm still not all that hungry yet!

• 1 onion
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 stalks celery
• 2 medium leeks
• 2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
• 600ml stock (recipe says chicken, but I'm veggie so use vegetable)*
• 1 tbsp chopped rosemary (I always just use mixed herbs)
• 50g pasta shapes
• half small cabbage (says savoy, but I've used pretty much anything)
• 1 courgette
• 4 large ripe tomatoes
• 1 225g can
• flageolet beans

* according to various sources, you don't have to use stock cubes, just save the water veg has been boiled in.  As long as you use it quickly you should benefit from any vitamins that've dissolved into the water too

Cut veg into approx 1cm pieces.
Fry onion, garlic, celery and leeks in oil til soft.
Add stock and half rosemary and bring to boil.
Add pasta shapes and bring back to boil for another 5 mins til cooked.
Add everything else and boil for one more minute.  Serve with crusty bread  Serves four, but you can double or treble the ingredients if you want to make lots.  I've also been known to vary proportions, leave things out (especially the tomatoes, I rarely use them)  and throw other random veg in - potatoes are nice in it.  It's a good recipe to experiment with, basically.

I have also been known to add (presoaked) red split lentils, pearl barley and even general soup mix to add a bit of interest.

I eat it chunky but my husband likes to whizz it in the blender.

Found this one on the internet

Boil together all the following ingredients for 20-25 minutes then liquidise. I prefer to leave it semi-lumpy, but the original recipe said make it smooth, so it's up to you.

• 1 medium butternut squash, peeled and chopped.
• 1 large onion, chopped.
• 3 sticks celery, chopped.
• 2 vegetable stock cubes dissolved in 1.5 pints of boiling water.
• 1/2 tsp cumin.
• 1/2 tsp coriander.
• Salt and ground black pepper to taste.
  
  It's nice with fresh chopped coriander or chives sprinkled on top as you serve it.