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

[Loveneverfails]

TIA

[AbbieHoffmansAfro]

N. b.: if you are using stock cubes, Kallo organic are the best I've tried.

[CeliaFate]

Completely easy vegetable soup

1 packet of Sainsburys frozen casserole veg (carrot, swede, turnip, onion)
1/2 packet of Sainsburys frozen diced onion
Knob of butter
Clove of garlic (optional)
Hot vegetable stock
Salt and pepper


Melt the butter in a large saucepan and add the frozen onion.
Cook for a couple of minutes.
Add the garlic if using.
Add the frozen veg and seal them (cook on a low heat with the lid on for about 10 mins, stirring occasionally).
Boil the kettle and pour boiling water over the veg.
Crumble 1 or 2 stock cubes in.
Bring to the boil then simmer for about 45mins.
Blend using a stick blender.
Add salt and pepper to taste.

[Pippidoeswhatshewants]

VeganCow chicken flavoured seasoning? Not in my soup, thanks.

I think I will stick to this www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Marigold-Swiss-Vegetable-Bouillon-Powder/12984011

[JRsandCoffee]

Haven't read the entire thread but....

Roast chicken dinner soup.... If I know the bird is big for my numbers I do some extra veg so that this soup can be made, particularly extra leeks!

Pick the bones of the roast clean and add that to any leftover meat in the blender, include the bacon if you cover the bird in that during the roasting. Bin the bones and the skin unless you have stock making mojo. Add leftover veg, potatoes (not too many potatoes, max I use is a couple of normal roasties) and gravy and have a jug of chicken stock on standby. Blitz adding stock as you go until it reaches your desired consistency. I quite often have this for Monday lunch as it is a good way of using up minimal leftovers and involves no additional cooking whatsoever.

[Pipbin]

The trick to vegetable soup is to cook the veg in butter with a bit of salt and pepper WITH THE LID ON. Then when you add the water, stock, milk take the lid off.

[OneSkinnyChip]

This is making me want soup! I will add a couple of recipes later but marking place for now.

[lilylola78]

Courgette soup is also nice with blue cheese!

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

I like Marigold, but also a spoonful of Marmite can do wonders for a veggie soup.

[cardamomginger]

Pea and parsley soup:

Fry chopped onion in olive oil with some sage, salt and pepper (works well without sage)
Add frozen peas
Cover with boiling water - not too much, just to cover the peas
Stick in a handful of parsley
Simmer until peas are cooked.
Blend and thin with water if needed.
Check seasoning and add squeeze of lemon juice.
Serve as it is, or with a swirl of cream, creme fraiche, etc etc.
Tastes amazing and is a gorgeous colour!

[Angeleno]

This is my favourite, black bean soup with cumin, jalapeno and feta, is gorgeous (kinda Tex Mex).

In a nutshell: cook onion, carrot and garlic for 6 minutes, stir in a bit of cumin and chilli, add a tin of black beans, a tin of chopped toms and a few hundred ml chicken stock, cover, cook 15 minutes until the veg is soft. Whizz in blender, season with s and p. Top with feta, chopped green onions, coriander.

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

You've just reminded me that I have an astonishingly simple black bean soup recipe somewhere. Must dig it out again.

[Smilesandpiles]

lily

Thank you for that. I did an online shop and over did it with the corgettes and didn't fancy the courgette soup on it's own.

[Smilesandpiles]

lily

Thank you for that. I did an online shop and over did it with the corgettes and didn't fancy the courgette soup on it's own.

[CornChips]

Thanks to this thread we are having curried sweet potatoe soup with crusty rolls for dinner. :)

Hint.... always add a chopped tart apple, like a Bramley to sweet pot or butternut squash soup, plus a little bit of cinnamon. It elevates it from nice to divine.

[TyneTeas]

My quickest easiest ones are

Potato and bacon
tyne-teas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/bacon-and-potato-soup.html

and tomato
tyne-teas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/tomato-soup.html

These two are reasonably simple too

Mushroom
tyne-teas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/mushroom-soup.html

Curried Parsnip
tyne-teas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/curried-parsnip-soup.html

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Great thread! Here's my contribution

Watercress Soup

Peel and dice 2 - 3 large floury potatoes
Chop up large onion
Simmer in couple of litres stock (chicken or veg) until potato cooked
Add 2 bags (or large bunches) watercress
Blitz with stick blender
Salt and white pepper to taste
Add cream/creme fraiche - lots mixed in or just a bit swirled through

You can substitute baby spinach and/or parsley for some or all of the watercress - it's then called Green Soup (can also add chives/spring onions)

[Loveneverfails]

thanks all

have printed this thread

SOUP FOR DUMMIES INDEED ;)

[monkeywrench]

I just "invented" Carrot and Apple soup last week, it was lush...

sweat onion in butter/olive oil
chuck in chopped carrot and tons of chopped/squashed garlic
sweat a bit more
chuck in equal to carrot amount of peeled chopped apple and some stock
when carrot is cooked blitz

Think you could probably add ginger (root or powder) if so inclined.

[SomeSortOfDeliciousBiscuit]

Chicken noodle soup

2 chicken stock pots (or three, if you like a stronger taste. Also depends how many people you're cooking it for.)
Equal amount of finely chopped carrot, celery and onion, or spring onion.
Chicken pieces.
About 30 grinds of black pepper or a tsp of it.
1 nest of noodles per person.

Put everything in the pan apart from the noodles. Add water. Put lid on pan. Wander off for half an hour or so. Return. Check if veg is soft; if not, wander off again. When veg is soft, take lid off. Add more water if you want, add the noodles. Wander off for ten minutes. Come back, soup is done. Eat the soup.

[Laloue23]

Might have been done but...
Tin butter beans
Tin sweetcorn
Onion
Garlic
Stock - not too much, enough to cover
Milk

Fry onion and garlic
Add stock , beans, simmer 15mins
Add corn, milk if desired.
Serve nice and hot - grated cheddar makes it gloppy and delicious.
Lived on this as a veggie at uni...

[Sapat]

"Orange" soup: fry 1 onion, 1 potato, 3 carrots, 1 small courgette for a few minutes, cover with boiled water, crumble in a stock cube. Boil until veg are soft, maybe 30 minutes. Blend. In the winter I add red split lentils or such like.
This is the only one my kids eat without fussing too much! All our soups are graded by colour. "Brown" soup (mushroom) is apparently yuck.
Another is: 1 onion, 1 butternut squash, 3 carrots. Fry it all up with some cumin, add ground coriander and cover with stock. Once soft blend, add milk and/or a cream.

[katek]

Easiest ever.....

Pckt fresh prepared casserole/soup veg
2-3 veg stock cubes
1-1.5pints water
Salt/pepper to taste
Large handful of quick cook/microwave rice-optional

Put all ingredients (except rice) into pan, bring to boil then simmer until soft. Mash down a little (add rice at this stage if you want and simmer until rice cooks)Add seasoning to taste and serve with hunks of crusty bread.
Simples!!

[VeganCow]

Pippidoeswhatshewants I normally use the Marigold, however the Osem one is really a lot nicer. Funny enough it doesnt taste of chicken, if it did I would not eat it, being vegan, it is just a nice deep full flavour.

[Naicecuppatea]

Vegancow, I wouldn't choose that Osem stuff due to the ingredients list - MSG as a flavouring plus others and GM ingredients.

[PartTimeModel]

Cook frozen peas in chicken stock (or vege stock).
Blend.

That is all.

If feeling fancy you can add a blob of yogurt and/or some Parmesan cheese.