I really fancy a big bowl of hearty soup

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I'm at work, cold and hungry, and am looking forward to making some soup when I get home.
I love a good bean and vegetable soup. Gordon Ramsey has a really good one.

What are some favourites that you can recommend?

Omg these all sound amazing. Thankfully, I can go home in a couple of hours and I'm so looking forward to hot soup.
My throat feels a bit sore and I feel like I'm coming down with something which is what's making me so enthusiastic.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/leek-butter-bean-crispy-chorizo-soup

This one is dead easy and a winner. I often use a mix of potato and butter bean instead of all butter beans. And the chorizo can be replaced with anything savoury like bacon, cheese shavings or just salted croutons.

I will be trying some of the others upthread thank you!

I made this tomato soup with a whole head of garlic last week. Delicious, and so easy.

food52.com/recipes/85143-roasted-garlic-tomato-soup-recipe

I love chicken and rice soup.
1 onion
4 carrots
1 tin of chicken in white sauce
Halfa cup of rice
Stock
Rosemary

Grate onions and carrots. In a bowl empty the chicken and sauce and smush it so the chicken breaks up. Put chicken and white sauce in pot with carrots and onion, add half a cup of rice cover with stock,simmer for half an hour. Season to taste

French onion soup! I really want one now.

www.google.com/search?q=greek+chicken+lemon+soup&oq=greek+chicken+lemon+soup&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l2j0i457i512j0i512l2j0i22i30l4.34318j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#mmc=1

This one is very healthy, known as medicine in a soup, to make you feel better.
I am working on adapting it by using Quorn rather than chicken, and to be done in a digital pressure cooker.

Cauliflower soup with a bit of cream and cheese.

I'm marking my place to steal some of these recipes for the winter 😋

Broccoli and Stilton, goats cheese and red pepper and good old fashioned lentil are my favourite. My dad used to make a cider and apple soup. Sounds bizarre and I was dead against it at first, but it was actually delicious!

I generally just make a pot of lentil soup on a Sunday because its so easy and handy for healthy lunches during the week. About 8 carrots, 3 veg stock pots, 300g red lentils, couple of parsnips, a turnip, 2 leeks, and whatever else is lying around! We've had it maybe every 2nd week for 6 months now and still can't get enough!

Pea and ham hock 😋😋😋

Bacon and lentil soup is my favourite hearty soup.

Fry off some chopped bacon and onion, add dried red lentils, tin of chopped tomatoes, tomato paste and stock. Then simmer for 45/50 minutes add more stock if gets too thick.

I am veggie and often have gluts so make alot of soups.

My basic recipe is:

Slow cook onions and sometimes garlic in oil. Add whatever veggies you have, chopped small, until they are all starting to brown. Add herbs [whatever you have], chopped greens [whatever you have] and let that sweat and then add water, pepper and salt to taste. Cook that slowly until all the veg is cooked, take off the heat, blend, season again to taste.

If you need it thicker then add a teaspoon of flour before you add liquid and stir in, and then add water or milk or a mix of the two. And then blitz. This works for leek and potato soup. Cook again to thicken the flour.

If it needs it, grate some cheese onto it when you serve and always serve with crusty bread and butter or toast and butter.

If heavy on the tomato, a drizzle of olive oil and more grated pepper works well at the point of serving.

I love Cauliflower (cheese) soup. I stir a bunch of spinach into that too.

It’s leek and potato tonight. I add crisped up bacon for the carnivores and crumbled Wensleydale in the bottom. Got a loaf of unsliced bread past it’s best? Squirt with water or oil and stick in airfryer. Makes it lovely and fresh again.

I made some this morning. Spiced lentil, carrot and tomato predominantly. I fried off diced onions, garlic, celery, half a cubed sweet potato, 4 chopped medium carrots in a teaspoon of cumin, smoked paprika and olive oil. Then when soft I added some cherry tomatoes, a cup of red lentils and some vegetable stock (always use less liquid than you think you need as you can thin it out later). If you have an instant pot, put it on high for 8 mins. Otherwise bring to the boil, then simmer for half an hour. Blend, add salt and pepper and chilli flakes / a spoon of yogurt if you want. Lunch for the next few days!

I thought the same. I've just made a large pan of veg and ham soup using up the remnants of yesterday's gammon. 😊

Easiest soup ever is a packet of frozen casserole veg in a pan with vegetable stock and dried red lentils, boil for 20 mins, add S&P and dried cumin to taste and blend!

I also like pea and ham. I boil a whole smoked gammon until cooked. Scoop it out, add an onion and a few potatoes to the cooking water, boil until potato is soft then tip in a bag of frozen peas. Heat them and then blend. Add back in a bit of the gammon shredded - my kids call this witches brew!

Just here to say, yum.

Brie and courgette for a thick soup..

However I brought my DD a packet of chicken noodle soup from the shops recently and I thought it was weird because it was like a brother with noodles rather than a thick soup.. but I tried it and it was so lovely!😂 we’ve had it a few times since..

I cheat at ramen. Get the noodle packets from the Asian supermarkets and add more water , spinach, mini sprouts, fine shredded cabbage, boiled egg and some leftover chicken or Quorn pieces.

Mixed vegetable and red lentil is the most common one I make, sometimes with tomato sometimes without. Vary the spices although ground coriander commonly makes it in.

I had some stock in the freezer from last winter that I got out last night - carrots were on special the other day so I got some fresh coriander as well and will make it later with onions and possibly a potato. Lentils will probably end up in there as usual!

Delia's lentil and bacon. Freezes really well too.

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/occasions/christmas/christmas-starters/smoked-bacon-and-lentil-soup?amp

I'm currently simmering bones left from a roast chicken which will go into a noodle soup. I bought some polish soup lentils from Sainsburys (they are like a pre-broken vermicelli) so I am looking forward to that.

Otherwise I often make a squash soup with leeks (or just some frozen onions), squash, some frozen broccoli or cauliflower and flavoured with some cumin or garam massala. Just a nice, warming soup.

Puy lentil and pancetta soup.

Fry pancetta cubes with diced onion, carrot and celery. Add a few handfuls of dried 'puy' lentils (Sainsburys lentilles verts are cheap version) and a load of water mixed with some Marigold veg bouillon. Bring to boil and simmer until lentils fatten. Add some handfuls of spinach or kale and season. Cook for about another 10 mins.

It's very flavoursome and I like the way the puy lentils keep their shape. I usually make cheese scones to serve with it as DH is GF and hates GF bread.

I make a leek and potato, but rather use sweet potatoes instead and add onion and a few carrots. Then for liquid I add coconut milk and throw in a few chilli flakes.

ITS SO GOOD

Spring greens, orange lentils, smoked paprika.