Soup! It's soup season! Can I have your best soup recipes please?

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I have no blender or other contraption so all my soups are the kind with bits in. So....what have you got for me?

I can smell Autumn....she's there...it's time to think on!

I am particularly interested in vegetarian and vegan recipes but meat is good too!

This one's eassssssy! Which I need with a ridiculously clingy one year old like a limpet on my leg while I'm trying to cook.

Super healthy: high protein, slow release carbs, really filling

Two main ingredients: lentils and tinned tomato, onion if you want to but I usually leave it out. Add stock, ketchup and cumin for flavour.

good soup

I made the mushroom soup from the recipe that serin gave and it was so easy and really lovely. Only difference was I fried my mushrooms in frylight instead of butter then added the flour in with the stock and I fried an onion with it.

Easiest soup ever

I do a tomato and lentil soup as well but even easier, just 2 x cans of toms, 1 x can lentils (washed and drained). Soften onions and garlic, add toms and lentils + some chicken/veg stock or just an extra can or two of water , cook for 20mins, adjust seasoning and blend using stick blender. I think its a Mary Berry recipe.

This is Nan's Soup aka ham soup. She's passed away now and it means a lot to DH that we have this recipe.

buy a smoked ham hock or bacon joint (smoked) .Simmer meat in water on a low light for about an hour until tender (or overnight in a slow cooker but don’t throw away the liquid !)

Add carrot and onion (you can also buy ham stock cubes and put them in at this stage and simmer for another half hour until carrot tender. Add a large can of Pease Pudding and a DRAINED large can of Butter beans . Then add either one X LARGE can heinz tomatoe soup or 2 x 400g tins.

Simmer for another 10-15 mins stirring gently . Then its done.

You can cook boiled potatoes and serve with the soup or add dumpling mix if you want (dumplings will need to simmer in the soup with a lid on top for about 10-15mins so add them once you’ve done the last stage and its come to a gentle bubble)

Shamelessly marking place.

This is the winter that I convert my family to soup and bread as a default week day supper option [determined]

Chicken wings
carrots
onion
parsnip
swede
spaghetti
matzo balls

I've been eating it for the past 2 days

The mushroom soup & cheesy chowder on my board are to die for:

pinterest.com/julescupcake/soups/

Right, here's my contribution...

A very typical Portuguese soup with kale and chorizo - it's very filling, warm and no blender required.

Portuguese Caldo Verde

My mouth is watering!

I make a basic chicken broth if I'm organised enough to make a stock from a chicken carcass. I make the stock with any veg I have laying around.

Cook for an hour.

Sieve and add more veg, chicken pieces from the carcass and cook for another hour. If I'm feeling exciting I might add noodles and soy sauce.

I keep meaning to replicate a soup I ate gallons of on my honeymoon which was a chicken soup but had lime and tortilla chips with it. I never have any lime in when I go to make it or I buy a lime and then I never get round to making it!

This thread is ace.

As an aside, I drank my first mug of hot chocolate last night, snuggled under a blanket on the sofa in my slippers. Autumn is definitely here!

Ooh - some great recipes here. Any chance we could press you to head on over to our recipes section and add them in here?

My kid's favourite 'magic soup' (so called because when they were very little, they would dip bread in and it would turn orange, hence 'magic!). Even my v fussy godaughter eats this. Doesn;t have stock so great early food for kids as you control the salt.

2 sweet pots
2 tins chickpeas
2 tins tomatoes
2-3 carrots
onion
2 cloves garlic
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp coriander
1 tsp gd cinnamon

• Fry onion & carrots for 10 mins on low until soft
• Add garlic & spices, stir for 1 min
• Add diced sweet pot, chickpeas (drained), tomatoes (add further 2 cans tomatoes by using empty cans filled with water)
• Bring to boil, simmer until sweet pot and carrots soft, blitz with a hand blender. Season to taste (needs lots of salt for my palate!)

Should add, the spices don't make it 'spicy', just flavoured nicely.

If your kids like it hot, or if it's just for grown ups you could add fresh or dried chilli

I make scotch broth using lamb stock from boiling lamb mince for Shepherd's pie.Just add pearl barley and diced potatoes,root vegetables plus peas and carrots.If you a really strong stock you can enrich it with a Knorr lamb stock cube.Its very healthy as I remove all the fat from the stock by refrigerating it overnight .Another really nice soup is Thai chicken curry soup with glass noodles.Dilute any left over curry with stock an coconut milk,add chicken,noodles and coriander.It is truly delicious.You do need proper Thai curry sauce for this though,not the Lloyd Grossman type though.

I bought some Arbroath smokies to make cullen skink and now am obsessed with chowders - does anyone have a reliable chowder type recipe for clams or other fishy types please?

Poppy It's American but can be adapted if you don;t have the specific ingredients in the recipe:

www.reciperecommendations.com/65-fish-recipes-you-can-make-on-your-own/19/

pindora

Most soups can be made with little or no equipment other than a pan, and a few ingredients - basically veg/stock and anything else you want to add.

For example, brocolli + stock, blended makes brocolli soup. You could jazz it up by sauteing an onion first, and maybe adding cheese at the end, but essentially it's soup with just the 2 ingredients. Same with peas; boil in stock and blend. You could do either in a slow cooker, 4 hrs on high/6-8 hrs on low.

The net is full of recipes, check out google search of 'slow cooker soups' or look at Pinterest.

Marking my place...
We are very big soup fans in this house, well apart from dd who will only eat this this carrot soup
This one is ds's fave
While I personally love mushroom soup
And spiced lentil which despite being dirt cheap is divine.
If you want to be a 'chuck whatever's in the veg basket and have delicious soup' type, there's a couple of things to remember... if you're blending and you want your soup thick then using root veg will make it thick, if not then you can either use flour or stale bread. Be a bit stingy with the water too, you can always water it down when you've blended, it's a bit more difficult to make it thicker once you're done.

Fast & Flash Pea Soup
Cook some Petit Pois in chicken or vege stock. Add some garlic if you like, or a little mint.
Blend.
Serve with some cheese on top.

(for Pea Soup, make with peas instead of Petit Pois)

Anyone got a tasty but easy carrot and coriander recipe? Always fancied making it rather than buy it in cartons

carrot and coriander is the one that I tend to use although I'm slapdash, I tend to just tailor it to what I have in the veg basket.

People who haven't got a blender to make soup - this doesn't cost much more than some of the ingredients you're on about, and increases the range of soups you can make by a huge amount! And it fits in the drawer and the end bit goes in the dishwasher easily.

We lived on soup the winter we lived in a ski resort. Well, soup and steak barbecued on the living room fireplace .

Hmm, tricky one, if it's boiled it would be fine, although I probably would have used it as long as the chicken was thoroughly cooked.

I tend to make my stock with leftovers from the Sunday roast, although I roast the chicken bones before I put them in the SC. Only because this is what my Mum always does.