Making Soups

[Carina1962]

I like to make my own soups to take to work for lunch - has anyone got any good recipes or any 'Soup recipe books' they can recommended? thanks

 

[Caroline]

My own personal way is to just bung things in a saucepan, bring it to the boil and give it till the hardest vegetable is soft then let it cool before popping it in the liquduser. If I am doing tomato, I chop up one carrott and one onin and a stick of celery and I never use salt. If you want more flavour add a stock cube or two and a handfull of porridge or a grated potatoe will help it thicken.

 

[am64]

my mum gave us the 'soup bible' ...fantastic

 

[Carina1962]

AM64 : who is the author? i came across 2 so want to check it's the one you are talking about, thanks

 

[bev]

Alex loves my broccoli soup.

1 big potato (diced into squares)
3 bunches of broccoli
1 onion
vegetable stock cube
2 cloves garlic
salt and pepper (white)
cream
cheese (optional)

Fry onion, garlic and potato in olive oil.
Add stock and enough boiling water to suit. Add broccoli and simmer for 20 minutes. Use a soup blender and blend down until smooth. Turn off heat and add the cream and salt and pepper if required. Place in bowl and sprinkle cheese on top!

You can also do this with cauliflour - lovely!🙂Bev

 

[Copepod]

Pearl barley is a good soup ingredient if you want some carbohydrate - basically makes a scotch broth when added to stock / veg / meat.
Only soup recipe I ever use is for mushroom soup, to get quantities of flour, fat, stock, mushrooms, onion, cream / milk & egg right. Good way of using up a box of mushrooms going a bit squidgy.

 

[HelenP]

I usually make vegetable soup, just using whatever I have in my fridge, and some chicken bovril, but if I could give only one tip, I'd say whatever soup you're making, always include celery, it really does make a nice difference to the flavour.

xx