I have never made home made soup. PLease can you tell me your EASY SOUPS and I will make them!

[Loveneverfails]

TIA

[Pippidoeswhatshewants]

German carrot stew

2 onions
500g carrots
500g potatoes
500g pork shoulder
1 packet of lardons
Garlic

Fry lardons and diced pork shoulder, add onion, garlic, diced carrots and diced potatoes. Bung in your slow cooker, cover with veg stock. Leave on low for 6-8 hours. Season.
Serve with crusty bread.

[LividofLondon]

What a useful diagram Opies. Thanks for sharing

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Going to try a French onion one v soon. Thanks, all.

[purpleapples]

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[FixItUpChappie]

I'm inspired! I've also never made homemade soup OP and am going to give it a try too

[FixItUpChappie]

Is there a trick to adding noodles? a certain place in the process they should go in to avoid being to soft or undercooked?

[PourMeSomethingStronger]

Oooh, some lovely recipes here. Good thread!

[Loveneverfails]

thank you



I am craving soup. lol

[CarbeDiem]

fixit I cook my noodles separately in water and add to the bowls of soup as I need them. They go all mushy and awful if you leave them in there.

[theoldtrout01876]

Southwestern Pork soup


Cooking spray
1 cup chopped onion
2/3 cup chopped bell pepper
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and minced
1 pound pork tenderloin, trimmed and cut into bite-sized pieces ( Ive done this using the bone and scraps left after a roast )
2 cups chicken broth
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 can pink beans, rinsed and drained
1 can diced tomatoes, undrained
1 can of black beans,rinsed and drained
frozen corn ( I fill one of the empty bean cans and use that much )
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1 cup diced avocado
Preparation

Heat a small nonstick Dutch oven over medium-heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add onion, bell pepper, garlic, and jalapeño to pan; sauté for 2 minutes. Add pork; cook 3 minutes. Add broth and next 8 ingredients ; bring to a boil. Partially cover, reduce heat, and simmer 6 minutes or until pork is done, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, and stir in cilantro. Serve with avocado.

[Loveneverfails]

I have just realised this thread is in

talk of the day.

except it is labelled SOUP FOR DUMMIES

Thanks for that MNHQ

[Stratter5]

Sweet potato and coconut soup.

1 large orange flesh sweet potato, cubed
2 carrots, cubed
1 meduim onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
Butter to fry
Chicken stock
Can coconut milk
Handful prawns

Sweat onions in butter until translucent, add garlic, potato, and carrots, fry gently for 5 minutes. Add 1/2 pint chicken stock, cook until softened. Add coconut milk, cook until hot. Blend until smooth. Fry prawns, and use to garnish.

[Stratter5]

Bugger, forgot chilli. I add a pinch of chilli flakes when I'm sweating the onions.

[CarbeDiem]

SOUP FOR DUMMIES

That's a tad harsh MNHQ :)

[MickeyMixer]

www.kallo.com/things-we-make/stocks/very-low-salt-organic-vegetable-stock-cubes/
These are good stock cubes if you are feeding kids and/or want low salt.

[SaggyAndLucy]

I had lettuce and potato soup once. It was amazingly nice!

[MyFirstName]

Best Ever Tomato Soup. Ever.
Anyone I have ever served this too has demanded the recipe.

Ingredients
1 tin tomatoes (try and use decent ones not value ones - does make a difference)
1 chopped onion
1 chopped carrot
2 chopped rashers bacon (any)
1/2 tin of swilled out tomato water (you know rinse the tin - half full - add to pan).
1 stock cube (I use beef oxo)
1 tablespoon flour
Squish of tom puree
1 good grating fresh nutmeg
Salt & Pepper
Bay leaf if available

Method 1 (aka Doing it properly)
Make sure the carrots, onion are bacon are chopped finely.
Sweat the bacon, carrot and onion in a pan until onion softish and bacon cooked.
Add the flour and mix in.
Add the tinned toms and 1/2 tin of water and stir in.
Add stock cube, puree, nutmeg, salt and pepper and bayleaf.
Simmer on the hob for 20 mins or so stirring occasionally to stop sticking.
If it begins to look a bit lacking in liquid add a splash more water.
When carrot is soft and mushy it is ready to "whizz".
At this point REMOVE BAYLEAF (very important unless you fancy unpleasant green bits in your soup)
Whizz. Add some milk or water if a bit too thick.
Season to taste.
Eat - or drink,depending upon you view as to how one consumes soup.

Method 2 (aka being lazy)
The carrots, onion and bacon only need to be very roughy chopped
Put all ingredients in a slow cooker or casserole with lid on.
Cook on medium heat (160/180) for about an hour/hour and a half - or until carrots mushy.
Check half way to make sure not catching.
When carrots mushy is ready to whizz.
At this point REMOVE BAYLEAF (very important unless you fancy unpleasant green bits in your soup)
Whizz. Add some milk or water if a bit too thick.
Season to taste.
Eat - or drink,depending upon you view as to how one consumes soup.

[Viviennemary]

I'm not a great cook but sometimes I do a winter soup. I buy two of those vegetable stew packs and chop them all up put them in a large pan with water and a good amount of that Marigold stock powder or bouillon (sp?) I think they call in and boil up the lot and simmer till veg is softish and then blend quite a bit of it but leave some solid veg. Quite ok.

[hugoagogo]

I hardly ever blend my soups, I can't be bothered and I quite like chunks.

We are boring and have either carrot and coriander or leek and potato over and over again, but I recently tried making pea and coriander which was delicious and so easy as you only have to chop the onion.

1 onion chopped
300g of frozen peas
bunch (15g) chopped fresh coriander
big pinch chilli flakes
500ml marigold stock
loads of white pepper

Fry the onion in a large covered pan with a teaspoon of oil and a pinch of salt gently for about 10 mins.
Add the peas and stock and simmer for about 5 mins.
Add the coriander and chilli flakes.
If you want to blend it, do it now.
Serve with loads of white pepper.

[HemlockStarglimmer]

Minestrone

Adapted from a toddler recipe I picked up in Tesco years ago.
Serves four

Olive oil
Onion - 1 medium chopped up small
Carrot - 2 medium, chopped up small
Celery - 2 sticks, chopped up small
Leek - 1 medium, chopped up small
Garlic - two cloves
Tinned tomato - 400g
Tomato puree - about a tablespoon
Stock - 1 litre
Pasta shapes or spaghetti broken into short lengths - about 100g (more if you're very hungry).
Frozen peas - about a mug full

Gently soften the onion, carrot, celery, leek and garlic in the oil for about ten minutes.
Add the tomatoes and stock. Simmer for about twenty minutes.
Add the pasta and boil for as long as it says on the pasta packet.
Stir in the frozen peas until they're hot.

Serve with grated parmesan sprinkled on top.

[HemlockStarglimmer]

Oh yes - season to taste.

[serialgrannie]

Brilliant thread. Basically any tired old veg from bottom of fridge will work if chopped, sauted with some chopped onion, then cooked in water/stock (Marigold bouillon mix is excellent for this) then blended or not as you wish.

One of the nicest soups I have made is with frozen peas. One Christmas we had ham on the bone (lovely) and I actually made a stock with the ham bone. The stock turned to jelly when cold! I can't remember the exact proportions, but I cooked a big pack of frozen peas in the ham stock, added some mint and when the peas were cooked, blended with my stick blender. Finally, added some finely diced ham left over from the ham bone to make home made pea, ham and mint soup. It was a triumph if I say so myself.

[dottytablecloth]

Buy a sound cooker!

I've just bought one, it's fab!

No faffing with saucepans and blenders.

Perfect soup ready in 30 mins

[Pregnantagain7]

Sweat an onion in a bit of olive oil
Bag of frozen peas cover with knorr chicken stock
Packet of thick cut ham/ deli counter ham
Salt and pepper
Simmer for about twenty mins and blitz

Sounds awful but really really good also very good if you are trying to lose weight. If you are veggy swap to veg stock and leave out ham still really good.

[Pregnantagain7]

Ooooh few too many goods in there!