Your best soup recipe

[Getamoveon]

Want to make soup today. Have never made it before and kind of know what to do and kind of don't! Am fed up buying expensive and heavily salted 'fresh' soup. Any ideas?

chicken and veg soup.
Fry and onion and some mixed herbs after a few mins had a cubed potatoe, cook for a few mins then add a pint of chicken stock, and some fresh veg chopped, top up boiling water.
add a slug of white wine (optional)
Once you have simmered for 5 min use a hand blender or a masher to make the soup lump free, then had some single cream at the end.
Yum yum

Ta C. Are the potatoes and fresh veg already cooked or raw when you add them?

all raw, the potatoes are in small cubes (like dice) and just help it thicken.

I put 1 1/2 pints of water, veg stock cube, chopped onion, then any veg you might have such as broccoli, carrot, cauliflower etc, etc. Boil for 40 mins the whiz in the blender.

1 1/2 pints of water, veg stock, onion, a chopped clove of garlic, a cup of green lentils boil for 40 mins

This is a dead simple recipe for butternut squash and red onion soup.

Peel and chop one medium size butternut squash. Peel and quarter two or three red onions (depending on size of them)
Put in oven dish and drizzle with olive oil and cook at 190 for about 30 mins. I mainly find they need a bit longer than this and it will depend on how small/big you chopped your squash. You need them to be soft.
Make up 1 litre of stock and and put the cooked veg and stock in large saucepan and simmer for about 10 mins.
Then liquidise and voila! Delicious soup.

jerusalem artichoke and carrot -
peel 6 jerusalem artichokes, and 8 large carrots - cut up into chunks and fry in some olive oil with 2 cut up onions. Add half a chilli (fresh, to taste) and fry that off. Add some celery and then stock to cover. Simmer for 30 mins (or until carrots etc are soft). Add S & P to taste and whizz up - it is yummy.

This is the best, and easiest, soup ever!

Leek, Onion & Potato

2 x large leek (finely chopped)
1 x large onion (finely chopped)
2 x med potatoes (diced)
butter
1.5 pints chicken stock (I use Kallo organic chicken stock cubes)
pepper
tbsn butter

1. melt butter in large saucepan
2. add leek, onion and potato and cover-let them sweat gently for 10mins or so
3. add some pepper and
4. add the chicken stock and pepper and bring to the voil
5. cover and simmer for an hour

It's then up to you whether you puree or not; I do but also leave some larger lumps of veg. You can also add carrot (and cream.)

It's absolutely gorgeous!

excuse all the spelling mistakes-I have a 3yr old shouting at me to "hurry up mum!"

These sound great. And they look quite easy . Anyone else got one or two - I quite fancy making a lentil soup.

Furball - are your green lentils just raw from the packet or have you already soaked them first?

Getamoveon - I just chuck em in from raw, The ones I buy says you can, so check the packet first.

Cheers

Carmenere's spiced lentil soup - we do it regularly in our household. If for kids, I guess no chili. These measures are approximate tbh. I find it probably needs a bit more stock, maybe twice as much. Up to you how thick you like it. Dont think i normally do 2 onions either.

2 carrots, chopped
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
large piece of ginger chopped
1 chilli pepper, chopped
1 red pepper, deseeded and chopped
1 stalk celery

Sautee the above gently in some oil for about 3-5 minutes
Add -

a teaspoon each of ground cumin and coriander
About a cupful of red lentils
a tbl spoon tomato puree

Sautee for a few more minutes and add about 1pint veg stock, cook for 20 minutes and puree with a handheld blender. Season with salt and pepper

Lentil and coconut milk soup - scrummy:

couple of carrots, diced
onion, sliced
half a cauliflower, in little florets
green pepper, diced

Chuck in pan with a bit of oil. Fry for a couple of mins. Add cumin seeds, turmeric, mustard seeds, chilli powder to taste.

Add a carton of passata, a tin of coconut milk, a good shaking of dried red lentils and a big grind from the pepper pot.

Cook, adding water/extra spice as needsbe. Squirt in some lemon juice at the end. Serve it with naan breads, or chapatis, or chunky bread.

If you want to bulk it out, you can also add some basmati at the same time as the lentils.

I've been making a minestrone type soup in my slow cooker lately that is really really good! and easy cause you just chuck everything into the slow cooker!!!!

chopped onion and garlic
chopped carrot, celery
sliced courgettes (and any other kind of veg you have on hand. I've done it with turnip, butternut squash and cabbage)
2 tins of diced tomato, plus some tomato puree
water or stock
tin of kidney beans
tin or cannelini beans
herbs and spices to taste

bung it all in the cooker and leave it for the day.

I also brown some beef mince and add that.

Thanks again. Lots to try now.