Soup

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Your best ever soup recipes needed please but there are some caveats:

veggie
no tinned tomatoes
mustn't need a blender
proper recipe rather than 'just chuck whatever in'

Thank you. :)

To be frank, I think that you'll be pushing it if you want a veggie soup and exclude the use of a blender. Although you could always simmer it for ages and then use a masher or force it through a sieve instead.

I like leek and potato soup, but I do use a blender. Here is a method for doing this without a blender:-

overexposedme.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/recipe-potato-and-leek-soup-without-using-a-food-processor-or-blender/

You will need to replace the chicken stock with vegetable stock for a veggie version

One site that I do get a lot of recipes from is Smitten Kitchen

A nice cream of mushroom soup that I do like where you can use a potato masher instead of a blender:-

smittenkitchen.com/blog/2007/01/superlatively-souper/

Again, you will need to replace chicken stock with vegetable stock.

Then a recipe that I've never tried but I want to:-

smittenkitchen.com/blog/2014/01/parmesan-broth-with-kale-and-white-beans/

No chicken stock in this one.

Really? No lovely chunky veggie recipes out there? I do a nice unblended leek and potato one.

Thanks for the links.

Grated carrot, handful of lentils,coriander...

I only just bought a blender and haven't used it yet.

How about French onion? Best soup ever imvho. Replace beef stock with port and veg stock.

Any soup can be unblended. Just chop veg up as preferred.

Garlic soup?

I do a spiced lentil one, with coconut cream, carrots and sweet potatoes - but tbh it's nicer blended. I have got a blender, but hate blending soup.

Have never had French onion soup, so will deffo try that (but the idea of soggy bread on top outs me off).

You should buy the River Cottage Everyday Veg book (currently £5 on amazon). There are some really tasty veggie soups and only a few need blending!

Remus

Sorry, there is one that I forgot all about that I absolutely loved. The reason I didn't think about it is that it's normally done with meat, but you can also do a veggie version as well.

We went on holiday to Russia and had borsch. Here is a veggie version from the Guardian, the recipe's at the bottom of the page:-

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/apr/07/how-to-cook-perfect-borscht

You could do thai hot and sour soup if you don't mind the inclusion of thai fish sauce. Thickened with egg, fantastic. I use loads of veg and usually add salmon/prawns or chicken, but you don't have to....noodles also optional.

Thank you. Ooh have never had borscht.

I've got the HFW Veg book. I hate it, but will look at the soup section again. The only one I can remember right now is a mushroom one that looks like pond water.

Chinesey style ones good - any actual recipes please?

Get about a litre of veg stock, bring to boil and stir in:

1tbsp each of soy sauce, Chinese rice vinegar, sugar and lime juice
2tbsp thai fish sauce
Thumb of ginger, 1-2 red chillies and 4 cloves garlic - minced/finely sliced

Simmer 2 mins then add whatever veg you like, a bag of stir fry veg works for convenience, but little broccoli florets, peppers, spring onions, pak choi, carrots, green beans, shredded cabbage, bean sprouts, water chestnuts, any combo. Check flavouring - may need more sugar for sweetness, fish sauce for saltiness or lime juice for sour...

3 mins simmer then if adding prawns/chicken then I would add these now (salmon I bake with chilli/soy/ginger and serve on top of soup)

When veg has softened whisk 2/3 eggs in a cup then stir into soup, the more you stir the more it breaks up in the soup, so stir once/twice and leave it to set in larger pieces or stir, as you prefer.

Serve over noodles if you like, with coriander and lime segments optional.

There is a huge soup thread which I have just bumped should be near top of list.

In the HFW book there is a mexican (I think) soup which I bloody love!

And also a something and chard soup that was also very tasty.

Thank you all.. I'll look again at HFW but suspect the Mexican one will have tinned tomatoes in. Loads of the recipes in that book do, and the rest of them are either super-bland, or glorified sarnies!