Homemade soup recipe repertoire, please add yours!

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Autumnal weather for me = nice hot soups. I love making and eating them and am on the hunt for some healthyish, tasty recipes.

Sorry if I'm repeating, haven't RTFT. I make lots of carrot and coriander and carrot and coconut. The carrot and coconut is easy. Just add a block of coconut cream to the pan when simmering the carrots in stock. I also add some cayenne pepper and a little cumin. Delicious!

I love soup.
Courgette and spinach with a dollop
Of pesto
Creamed celeriac
Broccoli and Stilton
Bacon leek and potato
DP does a good parsnip and ginger which is great when you have a cold.
These are all blended.
I'm really hungry now!

I made a lovely soup tonight - two left over jacket potatoes languishing in the fridge, half an onion finely chopped, finely chopped parsnip, clove of garlic, stock. Once cooked whizzed in a blender with 100ml of cream. Other half of the onion sliced and cooked in a bit of butter until brown. Couple of slices of parma ham pan fried until crispy and crumbled on the top with some of the fried onions.

I love homemade minestrone, especially with a gooey cheesy crouton in the middle.

Also, French onion but takes forever and of course good old leek and potato!

Mmmmm

I roasted red pepper, carrot slices, red onion, cherry tomatoes and garlic cloves with a bit of thyme and EVOO last night. Blended it all with 2 tins of plum tomatoes, some already cooked red lentils, and some veg stock, and tomato puree, with a little balsamic vinegar and basil. I also added a couple of teaspoons of sugar to take away any tomato tartness. Topped it with some slices of fried chorizo. It was delicious, and all was polished off.

I've just made bottom of the fridge veg ready for work this week. 1/2 butternut squash cubed and roasted for 30min, carrots leeks and celery chopped and sautéed on a low heat in olive oil until bns is cooked, add bns to pot along with chicken stock and some thyme and cook for another 10 mins. Remove half the veg and roughly chop so the bits are not too big, blend the rest adding more liquid if to thick, return chopped veg to pan, add a couple of handfuls of chopped spinach, s&p and heat back through to wilt spinach.
I will portion it up later and add to the collection in the freezer for work lunches.

Marking my place ..

I made a lovely soup today - an onion and a stick of (limp) celery, two chicken stock cubes and two chicken breasts, water of course, on the hob for 40 mins, shred chicken breasts and add half a bag of orzo pasta.

Parmesan and warm bread. No one wanted dinner tonight after eating that for lunch so we just had a plate of sliced fruit and a piece of the apple cake I made yesterday.

1 red pepper, carrot, onion, chilli, boil in pint(ish) of chicken stock for 20 mins, then take off heat & add a cup of pure orange & blitz.

Or roast a whole bns, chop, fry with onion & celery, throw in a couple of tablespoons of curry powder & boil with stock then after 25 mins add a tin of coconut milk & blitz

Ooh, I also once had a curried soup that had a dollop of coconut rice in the middle & it was lovely

Love all these ideas! I'dI'd like to do a soup from roast dinner leftovers but when i do it just tastes like a boring slop. How do i make it taste nice?!

I boil a smoked gammon joint and use the meat for all sorts during the week then add a potato and an onion to the cooking water and cook till soft add loss of frozen petit pois and some of the gammon and blend - best pea and ham soup ever

Potato and bacon soup - cheap, tasty and ready in about twenty minutes

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Tortilla soup. I cut left over wraps into strips, dry in the bottom of the oven then keep in a jar to add to the bottom of the bowl. Soup is tomato, chicken, chilli, beans, corn - mexican sort of flavours. Add avocado, sour cream and grated cheese on top. Roasted tomato and red pepper is nice. Pack of scotch broth mix always in cupboard to add to lamb, chicken, veg etc. Chicken noodle. Pho. Also like pearl barley or those teeny pasta shapes in broth type soups. Borscht.

Oh and nettle soup with a bit of potato for body, loads of nutmeg and clotted cream. Not very calorie conscious but completely delicious!