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!

I love soup and make loads.

When I first started I didn't have a blender so I would mash it with a potato masher. I just added hot water at the end to make it thinner.

cauli cheese soup is one of my favourites

Curried butternut squash is zero points on Weightwatchers so I have that most weeks. I don't add coconut milk though

I am currently making this sweet potato and other yummy stuff soup as it's Vegan and DH likes vegan. It's bloody gorgeous so far!

God the one I've just made linked above is bloody amazing! I just ate a second bowl! I put all the garnish on top....spring onions, corn chips, corriander, baby toms and avocado...it was literally the nicest soup I've ever had! I'd never have thought to load "garnish" like avocado on top of a soup!

saving my place and rubbing my belly, these all look fab !!!! My current favourite is rosemary and butterbean www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2670/butterbean-and-rosemary-soup which is really filling and very tasty...

I tend to use a tattie masher as I dont have a hand blender and that works really well..

keep the recipes coming ladies, loving all the inspiration!

Courgette. Just fry off 2 onions in butter. And about 400gs of courgettes. Add chicken stock black pepper. Then whizz. Sound weird. But we has an influx of courgettes from the alottment and had to find interesting things to do with them. It can be very green.

Or sweet potato and chorizo. Base of onion celery and carrot. Add curry powder. And chicken stock.

same as emem but with red onions. crumble some feta cheese on top.

delish!

fry some onions. add veg stock, chopped carrots, butternut squash, garlic.
cook, puree. add some creme fraiche
add ground ginger and honey.
bring to boil.
serve.

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the feta thing was originally a side dish - fry the red onions is some oil, add chopped or sliced courgettes and kepp frying
when done add cubed feta, mix in, then put lid on and take off heat and wait a few minutes before serving.

that's it. 3 ingredients! gorgeous with sausages and mash.

once I made way too much so pureed left over to make soup! I'm pretty sure I added some garlic.

feedback please!

My turn to post so I can bookmark :)

Oooh, feeling hungry now - marking my place!

neomaxi that soup looks absolutely luscious with all those toppings.I'm cooking it tomorrow-its so pretty!

teta that was the main reason I cooked it but it really surpassed expectations!

Bacon and Chestnut Soup

Fry some chopped bacon, onion and a few sage leaves till softened.
Add chicken stock and a tin of unsweetened chestnut puree.
Use a potato masher to break up the chestnut a bit.
Simmer till smooth.
Serve with a swirl of yogurt or cream.

Smooth, silky and ver ver refined, though I say so myself.

I love soup. The big successes in this house are the chicken noodle soups, hot and sour soup like my favourite Chinese restaurant (easier than I thought) Shrek aka spinach and potato and good old fashioned French onion with toasted cheese baguette on top.
In fact I'm going to make it tomorrow.

My best tip is the bouillon power from marigold. So easy to whizz up a soup without stock and lasts ages (and makes a nice low cal hot drink)

Has anybody made Nigella's chestnut soup?

I have a good and really simple recipe for black bean soup somewhere - will try to dig it out tomorrow.

if you stir in some fresh pesto to any mostly green veg soup just before serving, it's fab.

I make a really lovely and cheap soup from a collection of old English recipes, Good Things in England. It comes from Somersetshire, 1932.

Wash & chop small a whole head of celery, and add to a pan with 2 chopped leeks or onions, & 1 chopped carrot.

Add 1/2 pint measure full of yellow split peas, rinsed (& soaked if possible)), & 3 pints water. Bring to the boil and simmer until the peas are cooked and floury, at least 1/2 hour.

Add 1tsp salt, and pepper, and a little parsley if you have it. Blend (In 1932 you put it through a sieve).

Surprisingly delicious, and not too overpoweringly celery-tasting.

Nigel Slater's Mushroom and lentil soup - the lemon and chilli flavours really make it...

2 large shallots or small onions
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 large cloves garlic
1 large dried chili, 1 small fresh chili, or 2 tsp dried chili flakes
100g brown mushrooms
1 cup small brown or green lentils
1 L stock
Bay leaf (or 2 or 3, you can indulge in this)
Worcestershire sauce
Juice of ½ – 1 lemon

I sometimes cheat with soup making - if we are going out for the morning and I haven't anything exciting for lunch I will chuck the ingredients roughly chopped into a lidded casserole dish and bung it in the oven on about 160degrees for a few hours. When we get back in I just whizz the soup with my handblenderything and voila.
Missed a bit from the sweating process but for easy easy easy it cannot be beaten.

Our favourite
1 onion, 1 carrot, 2 rashers of bacon
1 tin tomatoes
1 pint stock
1 tablespoon flour
1 bay leaf (remove before whizzing)
about 1/4 of freshly grated nutmeg

Is lush. And literally everything in really roughly chopped and leave it be (make sure you have the lid on).

Oh and I rescued a soup I made yesterday from being a bit meh. Was just a regular veg/lentil soup which I whizzed up (left a couple of ladle-fulls still as chunky veg then whizzed the rest). After whizzing and seasoning it was tasty-ish...but yep...just a bit meh.

So added cumin and a bit of lemon juice and a tin of mixed beans/pulsesit transformed it...was yum and DC/DH all wolfed it down.

My MIL used to make this Fish Tea Soup and Chicken Soup, she always used chicken feet, but DH makes his with chicken wings instead.

For a veggie option just use the seasonings, veg stock and hard food like yam, green banana etc... Like in this Ital soup.

No blending required.