to think soup is underated but amazing!

I’ve made a few soups this month. Found a great sweet potato and beetroot, but also use beetroot for borsch which is amazing. Also made a butternut squash one.

I need to branch out a bit soup wise because I also love anything with daal. My favourite soup is French onion but I’ve never made it myself.

I'd forgotten about the broccoli soup. I add roast cauliflower and Stilton to mix it up. I also add a few splash of lemon juice to broccoli soup which makes it super tasty.

Haven't made cream of celery since the summer, kids not keen but I love it.

I have a Covent Garden soup recipe book. It has a recipe for each day of the year. I have made a lot, and they have all been amazing.

Soup is very underrated.

I love a soup and make loads
Never follow a recipe, just make it from what we’ve got left.

I think all parents should prioritise getting their children to eat soup. You've then won at life.

@chickentikkasoup I can't do quantities as I tend to play it by ear, but roughly:

Peel and chop equal quantities of butternut squash and sweet potatoes, toss in olive oil, smoked paprika and salt and bake in oven until soft and lightly singed

Chop a few onions, lots of garlic cloves and some red chillies (depending on how spicy you like it) and fry them in butter until they're really soft and starting to brown

Add the onion mix and the veg to a big stockpot and pour on stock until the veggies are just submerged, then add a good squeeze of tomato purée, a good whack of chilli powder or flaked chillies, a tin of coconut milk, a squeeze of lime juice and a whole bar of creamed coconut (cut the solid oil bit off)

Bring to the boil, stirring, then blend. Taste it and add onion or celery salt if it needs it.

Mmm I was just daydreaming about soup.
Cream of tomato please, but homemade, lots of garlic and pepper with buttered crusty bread. Please.

Soup is my best friend! I make a giant pot and freeze into portions. I give it to friends and family and neighbours. Every single soup has a tin of white beans or lentils whizzed into it for protein and thickening.

Since Christmas I've made:

Roasted tomato and red pepper
Tomato and basil
Tomato and black bean
Creamy vegetable
Curried parsnip
Broccoli and Stilton
Roasted cauli

Tomorrow I'm doing fennel.

I want to be known as the soup lady.

Yes, I love a soup thread.

Mushroom and garlic soup for us tonight. With a cheese toastie. Absolutely delicious.

I make stocks. One of the best reasons to have a roast chicken. Also do a veg stock and use ham hock for lentil and pea soups.

We have soup at least twice a week in winter. Minestrone at the weekend for us. Loads of beans and cavolo nero and I've a Parmesan rind to season it.

Our other favourites are;

Lentil
Pea and ham
Tom Yum
Chicken Noodle
Chorizo and chickpea
Roast tomato and red pepper
Potato and leek
Sweetcorn chowder
Courgette and pea

I'm being discharged from hospital tomorrow and I'm gonna be all over this!!

I love soups !!!

My spicy sweet potato and coconut soup:
fry an onion, garlic, add a few sweet potatoes cubed , chilli flakes and ground cumin then pour in a tin of coconut milk and add a stock cube( veg or chicken) and depends on your preference some water to make thinner. Simmer for 20 mins then blend with a stick.
Sweet potato makes it so velvety.

You need seeds toasted in paprika and turmeric on top

I made sweet potato, coconut and chilli soup this week…it was so good!

I'm a relatively new convert to soup but I'm definitely sold on it now.

My absolute favourite is Thai green curry soup with leeks, spinach, a potato, curry paste, coconut milk and stock - yummmm.

Also sweet potato with ginger and a bit of chilli, also yum.

I love soup.
I had broccoli and Stilton soup and a roll for lunch today and it was wonderful.

If I feel a bit run down cream of tomato is pure comfort, I've eaten it my whole life and it makes me feel better.

I do a super easy curried butternut squash and sweet potato soup, so tasty. Roasting the veg and the garlic first makes it extra delicious!

@Justpontificating i have some spinach in the freezer and I just add a block or two to each portion when I reheat the soup. Not all of us like it so it saves making different versions.

Could you please share the coconut soup recipe please? It sounds yummage

I am not a big fan of soup, or 'wet' dishes in general. I make Leek and potato occasionally and I always enjoy the first bowl but i get bored of it really quickly. I would never have it in a restaurant, too dull imo. I really, really wish I loved it though.

I love a soup my faves are -

Leek and potato
Carrot and coriander
Tomato

I like a good broth. Clear, sparkling, fragrant... Beef bone broth. Chicken essence broth.

More fussy about soups. I feel like 75% are just okay, 25% are something I notice. Noting down any interesting sounding ones from this thread!

Think it depends how much bread you eat with it, whether you lather the bread with butter and those deep fried croutons are a killer.

I am one who absolutely believes in the therapeutic properties of soup. I think it helps bump up your temperature a bit and provides essential fluid and electrolytes. I just dropped in some old-school chicken soup to a friend who is very sick with Covid. When I am unwell, my happy place is a bowl of Vietnamese Phõ or Thai Tom Yum/Kha Gai. I try to have some kind of soup in the freezer for days when I’m too tired to be bothered cooking or shopping. Tomato soup was the first thing my kids asked to be shown to make when they were learning how to cook.

I make a nice leek and potato soup and sprinkle chopped gammon into it, always make enough to do a couple of portions for the freezer.

I'm not slim, but then I do have chunky bread and butter with it or a toasted sandwich.