To ask for your favourite soup recipes

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I was inspired by the recent lentil thread and would love to hear any favourite soup recipes or soup cooking tips.
My favourites to make are
Leek and Potato
Spicy Lentil
Tomato and Basil
And the most bland vegetable and pearl barley soup that we just love. It’s so weird it sounds so boring but it’s super comforting just chopped up carrot, swede, onion, potato. Stock cube, bay leaves and pearl barley.
I definitely go for simple recipes that I can eventually make without a recipe but wonder if there are benefits in trying a more complex recipe?

Chicken noodle soup....made with the carcass of the roast. I simmer the carcass in a pot of water with two onions, a few carrots, a load of garden herbs and salt and pepper. For about 3 hours.

Then I sieve all the bits out and throw in chicken pieces which I've reserved from the roast.

Cook for about ten minutes, throw the noodles in at the end. Sometimes I add more carrots diced or some spring onion raw as a garnish.

Ooh following. Please share your leek and potato soup recipe! Sadly I have no recipes to share, sorry!

Carrot and butter bean.
Carrot, sweet potato and butternut squash.

Watching with interest! I’d love to know how to make a creamy vegetable soup that’s a bit spicy and has no big lumps in it.

Spicy carrot and coconut. Sounds awful but it tastes lovely. It's a two chubby cubs recipe and so quick and easy to do.

Also can't beat a good lentil soup.

Mexican taco soup.

Fry an onion, tin of kidney beans, tin of rinsed baked beans, tin of chopped tomatoes, tin of sweetcorn, half pkt taco seasoning, half pkt smokey fahittea seasoning. Add a tin of water and heat through

Serve with tortilla chips in the bottom of the bowl. Ladle on soup, on top of the soup add dollop of grated cheese, creme fraiche, a few more tortilla chips and jalapeño pepper slices.

Loads of great threads and recipes for soup over in the Food/Recipes topic.

Red pepper and butternut squash with chilli. A little dollop of cream cheese when served. You can also add chorizo for a little extra oomph.

Carrot and coriander — the New Covent Garden recipe. Lush!

Ingredients

25g (1oz) butter
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
550g (1 1/4lb) carrots, of which 450g (1lb) roughly chopped and 110g (4oz) coarsely grated
1 litre (1 3/4 pints) vegetable stock
A pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
4 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander
150ml (1/4 pint) single cream
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

TO GARNISH:
150ml (1/4 pint) yoghurt
2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander
Method

Melt the butter and cook the onion and garlic gently until soft in a covered saucepan, without colouring.

Add the roughly chopped carrots, stock and nutmeg. Cover, bring to the boil and simmer gently until the vegetables are tender.

Cool a little, then puree in a liquidiser.

Return the soup to a clean saucepan and stir in the grated carrots, coriander and cream. Taste for seasoning.

Serve garnished with a swirl of yoghurt and a sprinkling of chopped fresh coriander.

Great recipes. I love soup.

Watercress soup - blend boiled potatoes, cooked leeks , vegetable stock , salt , pepper and loads of watercress together then heat up in a saucepan. Dollop of creme fraiche to finish.

My german friend introduced me to mince, cheese and leek soup. It's lush.
So easy to make and tastes great.
Fry the mince with some paprika, add some chopped leeks, cook them down. Add veg stock, coconut milk, cheesespread. Season with pepper.

I make soup often and I regularly use recipes from the Good Food website. My favourites are the basic mushroom soup and celery soup. Use mainly chestnut button mushrooms for the mushroom and for the celery be really careful about the amount of salt you use. I wouldn’t actually season it until you’ve finished making it.

This roasted red pepper soup

yummy

These are my current favourites

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/butternut-squash-soup-chilli-creme-fraiche?amp

www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/vegetarian/tom-kerridge-celeriac-and-bramley-apple-soup

I recently made split pea and bacon soup as I got a pack of smoked bacon offcuts from local butcher. Super easy and the spare went in the freezer:
www.errenskitchen.com/yellow-split-pea-and-bacon-soup/

I have a soup maker. I just cut up random vegetables I have to hand or anything lurking about that needs using up. Add maybe three stock cubes (in hot water) and a knob of butter or creme fraise. Herbs/spices to taste whatever takes my fancy. Then turn on the soup maker. 21 minutes later I have hot, smoothly blended soup. I have not made a bad one yet.

I freeze roast chicken carcasses until I have 3 then make stock from them. Simmer them for 6-8 hrs. Strain, pick out all the meat. Add potatoes, leeks, carrots, red pepper, swede, kale and whatever else needs using up. Simmer until veg cooked. Blend with stick blender, add chicken, quick blend again. The best chicken soup in the world!

1 carcass doesn't pack enough flavour imo.

Very simple butternut squash and coconut soup:
Into a pot:

• one diced butternut squash
• one large or two small onions
• fresh garlic
• fresh ginger
• veggie stock
• a 400ml tin of coconut milk
• chili paste (or fresh)
• turmeric, cumin, black pepper, salt

Let simmer until everything's nice and soft, and then blend smooth. I've never weighed or measured any ingredients, so levels of spice vary from batch to batch for me, as well as the resulting quantity.

Tesco had packs of smoked bacon off cuts cheaply, on the bottom bacon shelf.

Sweet potato, chorizo and chilli
(Cook red onion, chilli and garlic with some chorizo (skin removed) and a little bit of smoked paprika, add chunks of peeled sweet potato cook until everything starts to soften add chicken stock, simmer for a while, blitz. Delicious.
Roasted red pepper, chilli and lime, prawn laksa with loads of turmeric, minestrone with smoked bacon, chopped up been and tiny pasta. I often make a batch of soup on a Sunday and DH and I have it for work lunches through the week

Broccoli and Stilton (v easy just a chopped onion, head of broccoli, stock, simmer, and as much Stilton as you fancy added at the end when you blend it)
Roasted spiced butternut squash (roast chunks of butternut in oven til squishy, add to chopped onion and curry powder, add stock, simmer for 20 mins then blend)

Lentil and sweet potato
Leek and potato
Chicken noodle - poach chicken breasts in veg stock with ginger and garlic for 20 minutes. Remove chicken and shred. Return to the pot with egg noodles, sweetcorn, sliced mushrooms, spring onions and soy sauce. Cook for another 4 minutes. Absolutely delicious.

I just do fridge bottom or garden soup generally. I cook for elderly neighbours sometimes and whatever’s left makes fantastic soups.

Usually there is a celeriac or cauliflower sitting going limp that can be transformed simply.

Spiced, roasted cauliflower added to a sautéed shallot and stock with a potato thrown in to thicken is delicious.

Do the same with butternut squash and sweet potatoes but maybe chilli rather than curry spices - no need for potato with them.

Celeriac simmered in a little stock with a dash of crime fraiche or cream and some chopped chives or parsley. Celery likewise.

Usual obvious ones such as vichyssoise or carrot and coriander.

The children used to love curried carrot soup with cooked rice and chicken added blending. You can add chick before but I had a vegetarian daughter.

This smoked pancetta and lentil soup was also really nice. Doesn't need a lot of pancetta/bacon, but gives it a very nice flavour.