to think soup is underated but amazing!

[BudgetFoodie]

I love soup and it's a staple in my home particularly in the winter. Today I made a thick root veg soup and we had it with crusty bread. It's just so quick and cheap to make and there are so many different options - thin, thick, meat, veg, spicy, creamy.............

Do you make/eat a lot of soup?
What are your favourites?

Our family staples are veg, minestrone, tomato, chicken and sweetcorn and leek and potato.

I absolutely love soup. Homemade over shop bought any day. I make a great carrot, courgette & lentil soup. I like the idea of sweet potato & coconut milk so think I'll try that one.

Another soup lover here - although only started making my own fairly recently- love lentils and beans and my soups can often be more like stew.

Current faves are spiced carrot & red lentil, Squash bean & kale, minestrone.

Like the sound of spiced parsnip ones and sweet potato ones and may try those next

Hmm, no. Give me a good sandwich over soup any day of the week!

I mean, I do like soup. But I'd struggle to see it as the main event.

Heinz Tomato - which I've never craved at any other point in my life - is what I lived on, when in recovery from a ferocious bout of Covid. Of course, with Warburtons white bread!

French onion soup with homemade garlic and herb croutons....😋

Equally carrot and red lentil soup with a little bit of cream swirled in...!

Curried Parsnip and veg Soup

• Half a swede
• 4 parsnips
• 2 x Carrots
• 2/3 Celery sticks
• Onion
• Half teaspoon mustard powder
• Half teaspoon turmeric
• 1.5 tsp cumin
• Salt
• Pepper
• Half teaspoon ground ginger
• 1.5 L of veg stock - Kallo cubes

I WFH today because of the weather (roads looked awful and it's a 20 mile drive). DH WFH every day so at lunchtime we went to our local cafe where we had amazing cream of broccoli and cauliflower soup. Yesterday we had homemade tomato (I had roasted yellow stickered tomatoes with onion, garlic and mixed herbs and then blended it in veg stock - there's another 2 portions in the freezer).
I always have soup in the freezer. I want a healthy lunch at work and if I don't leave DH something, he will eat junk.
We ended up at MIL's on New Year's Day. My DM bought the steak pie and offered to make soup; she has a very sensitive sense of taste and her soup is tasteless so I said I would contribute the soup. I had some 15p bags of supermarket parsnips and apples from the garden so my contribution was parsnip and apple soup. I made a big pot so I have tubs in the freezer. MIL apparently hates parsnips but she loved my soup.

Such as it is! Fry a roughly chopped onion. Throw in a handful of peeled potatoes cut up (this is really just a thickener) and a bag of kale, thick tough stems removed.

I then add some cloves of garlic, seasoning, Marigold stock and a tsp of chilli flakes. Cook until everything is soft then whizz up and add more salt /pepper if necessary.

Quantities are a bit vague I'm afraid as I rarely measure but you can be as heavy-handed with the garlic and chilli to your personal taste.

In France ‘eat your soup’ is the equivalent of ‘eat your greens’ in the U.K. It’s how you get children to eat vegetables.

I love soup. DH makes an amazing minestrone and a gorgeous soup of green veg with fresh pesto. I make chicken and barley or lentil and bacon or carrot and ginger, and love jerusalem artichoke soup in season.

I make my own stock often. Proper MN chicken badge of honour, boiling up the carcass and stripping it to make chicken noodle soup.

Pea & ham for the win. Lentil a close 2nd.

Cauliflower cheese soup with crispy bacon on top is my favourite

Butternut squash, chilli and creme fraiche.
I never make stock - vegan Bouollion is my got to powdered stock, never veggie oxo.
I also have a lot of retro-based love for Heinz cream of tomato soup, which was given to me whenever I was sick as a child.

I make chicken noodle soup.

I use homemade chicken stock. Add left over shredded chicken, tin of sweetcorn, couple of handfuls of frozen peas, rice noodles, lots of spring onion, splash of soy sauce. Also add pak choi sometimes.

I love soup!
My favourites are potato-and leek soup, and asparagus soup.

Or "whatever is in the fridge and freezer"-soup.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spicy-roasted-parsnip-soup

Try this one

Minestrone. So thick your spoon can stand upright, made with pancetta, onions, garlic, carrot snd celery all diced small, then sauteed in a large pan in olive oil. Add a jar of cannelini beans, tin of Cirio timatoes, lots of water or stock. Simmer for an hour then add finely sliced cabbage, when soft add 'soup pasta' like stellini and cook until done. Serve with grated parmesan and homemade pesto. A complete meal.

i love soup, going to try a few recipes mentioned here.

I made my chicken soup yesterday. It’s a main meal soup with pots and veg. Virtually a stove top casserole. I think I cook it like my great grandma might have done in a cold Ukrainian winter, but I probably have better access to good veg.

Any leftovers get blitzed for a lunchtime soup or stock to freeze.

At this time of year I love spicy parsnip soup or anything with beans and pulses

https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/super-lentil-and-vegetable-soup.html

I made this last week at work, it went down very well with tenants.

The best soup for me is carrot and coconut.
Had it in a hotel once, demanded the recipe🤣
Its just stock, onion, carrot,couple of potatoes and coconut milk. Devine. Roast the carrots first of you have time. Otherwise slow cooker makes a decent version.

Roasted red pepper and red lentil is another favourite.

Great thread, I've found my people!

Another freezing day forecast so I made a special shopping trip earlier to buy leeks and potatoes to make soup tomorrow. Herby dumplings will also be thrown in! 🍲

I wasn’t sure what I wa making for dinner tomorrow but I know it’s soup now! Just have to decide from all the lovely recipes here!

minestrone might be top choice!

What an inspiring thread!!
I must have had home made soup as part of most of my lunch meals as a child. 15 years of bloody soup! Yes it was very tasty and different varieties but not an event to my mind. I then went through a 10 years phase of complete refusal of soup consumption because I was sick of it.

But, as any mum will tell you, you just can't beat a good soup! And I do really like soup.
I always make chicken soup if I get a cold and am convinced it is like medicine. I very rarely get a cold so I miss my chicken soup. I'm going to make some this weekend!
I often drink warm broth from a cup because I'm convinced it has some magic youth promoting qualities (well, there's collagen).
But my repertoire is rather limited otherwise to potato & leek or ham & peas soups.

This thread gave me some really good ideas on expanding my soup repertoire. Hopefully the kids will like them (DH will eat anything and everything luckily).

I like a pho, laksa or similar. If I did eg a tomato soup for dinner there would be a riot in this house. It's ok for lunch.

Great thread. I have chicken and vegetable soup for breakfast every single day.