Your best low-carb soup?

[justtootired]

Store bought soups seem heavy in carbs. What are your best soup recipes?

[sassandfaff]

I've become a bit of a soup queen since I started low carbing!

I keep messing around with different ingredients.

Best so far have been broccoli soup, carrot and coriander and tomato and basil.

I'm not really one to follow recIpes or measurements, so I can't tell you exactly, but broccoli soup is roughly;

3leeks
1large onion (should be shallots really, but they irritate the life out of me peeling them)
1full celery.
Fry in butter until soft.
Put in large stew pot
Add 3 heads of broccoli.
3 chicken stock cubes
Water to cover 2/3's or 3/4's
Bring to the boil, simmer until broccoli is soft.
Whizz up in magic bullet/blender
Add double cream and salt to taste.

I did use to add Brie, or Stilton but since I Fried in butter and added a third stock cube it really doesn't need it.

[sassandfaff]

Carrot and coriander. (Quite car by, but dd2 loves it. I try to only have a small bowl)

Full bag of carrots
1 onion.
Coriander fresh and grounded.
Double cream

Fry onions with grounded coriander (about a tsp) in butter
Cut up carrots
Add onions and carrots to a large stew pot
Add 2chicken stock cubes and 2/3's boiling water. Cook util carrots are soft.
Whizz add fresh coriander. Salt and doulbe cream to taste.

[sassandfaff]

Tomato and basil.

2 carrots
1onion
I didn't bother frying. All in stew pot, with 2/3 tins of chopped tomatoes and 2/3 cartons of Passata. Boiling water and chicken stock, about 400ml and 2 cubes
Salt and dried basil.
Cook until carrots and onion or soft.
Whizz in blender and add double cream. (This one needed a lot so it wasn't too rich from all the tomatoes)

[sassandfaff]

Just thought. I think I added fresh coriander before I whizzed for carrot soup.

[stardusty5]

Leek and cauliflower, as an alternative to leek and potato is good.

3 leeks
1 cauliflower
1 pint veg stock
Curry powder (optional)

Then blend and add cream at the end with lots of seasoning

[Paleoish]

Google 'silky gingered zucchini soup' from a blog called The Clothes Make the Girl. It's delicious!

[sassandfaff]

Ohhhhh. I'm going to try that paleoish it sounds good.

[sassandfaff]

Made it. It is good, but I prefer broccoli. I put a big blob of butter just before I added the courgettes and I added cream at the end. It's not necessarily better tasting with the cream, but it dilutes the harshness of the ginger- which us better for the dc's to accept.

[Paleoish]

Did you use fresh or powdered ginger? I love it with cream, yum.

[sassandfaff]

Verdict just in.

Ds- age 4. 'I just love this soup' (on 2nd bowl)

Thumbs up from him then.

Dd- age 4. 'Yuk'

She is a carrot and coriander lover.

[sassandfaff]

Powdered ginger.

[ali23]

Thanks. Broccoli went down a treat

[sassandfaff]

Your welcome ali it's my favourite.