Favourite soup recipes please?

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I've made a pumkin soup (asda recipe) and a roasted tom & mixed bean soup this weekend. I'm absolutely addicted (as are the kids! - there usually fussy eaters! )

Any others you would mind sharing with me.

Thanks

Leek and potato?

Really easy and my dd LOVES it.

Just soften leeks in a little bit of olive oil, add potatoes and boil for about 20 mins, then liquidise and add a pot of low fat creme fraiche and plenty of black pepper. Yum.

Like the sound of roasted tom and mixed bean...where did you find the recipe?

O hang on I forgot to say add a chicken or veg stock cube before liquidising.

Try adding a bit of pearl barley to your homemade soup. It gives it a certain wintery 'bulkiness' to the soup without leaving it too starchy. My favourites are celery and tomato but it's good with most soups and you can get it without having to pre-soak it.

Please share your roasted tomato and mixed bean recipe...sounds good.

My fav is cream of chicken

Boil up the left over carcass of a whole roast chicken with an onion halved, and a bay leaf.

Strain the stock and reduce to about one pint.

Add:
a pint of full cream milk (some cream is nice too but not necessary)
a generous dollop of butter
a dessertspoon of plain flour
half a teaspoon ground nutmeg
lots of pepper
little salt
the cooked onion

Blend all this together with a hand blender and bring to the boil to thicken.

Pick over the carcass and add any slivers of meat.

Serve with fresh parsley

jerusalem articoke and carrot -
peel jerusalem artichokes (7 or 8) and cut up along with lots of carrots
fry with onion, bayleaf, salt and pepper and a bit of chilli for added kick
when they are softening up add water or stock (enough to cover) and simmer for 30 mins
then whizz up
it is the most amazing orange colour and very tasty

add a handful of pasta to it for more bulk if you don't want bread with it

Right, roast 16-20 ripe toms (quartered) with 6 peeled & chopped cloves of garlic & drizzle a good glug of olive oil and lots of s&p. Cook for about 15 mins in a hot oven. Add a load of basil a couple of mins from the end.

Allow to cool. Remove skin, and blitz the lot.

2 cans of mixed beans - rinse and add to the toms with about a pint of veg stock. Blitz again and cook soup for 10 mins. Serve with basil and creme fraich. Bloody gorgeous. Hubby made some home made garlic croutons too!

Enjoy xx

Glad I have seen this - I am so going to get into soup this winter. Mouth currently watering

Rubyslippers--

can you please say a bit more about peeling jerusalem artchokes--I've never used them but have always wanted to and have no idea how to approach them.

To answer the OP: I love Nigella's lentil and chestnut soupit's good around xmasto eat with leftovers. If i remember I'll dig up recipe.

A really lovely soup that I got from here once was this;

Fry a couple of onions,
add some red chilli flakes or powder to taste,
add pumpkin/butternut squash,
add can of coconut milk.

Cook and whizz.

Is so simple and truly delicious.

Onion soup, this is so easy....

About a kg of onions
2 large potatoes
1 parmesan rind

Sl;ice onion and fry til soft, add potatoes in chunks, water, parmesan rind. Cook 1/2 an hour, put half the soup in blender, season to taste. Enjoy

Xan - i use a regular peeler
they are quite knobbly but they aren't too hard to peel

give them a bit of a scrub first

it is worth the effort as the soup tastes great

ruby--

sounds like jerusalem artichokes are really not at all like regular artichokes

I envisioned them as mini artichokes with leaves--so I imagined having to pluck off a lot of leaves, so I couldn't understand "peeling" them. But now I think I understand. Thanks.

wintersun, there was a similar recipe to that butternut squash/coconut soup maybe 4 or 5 yrs ago here on mumsnet--and you're right it's yummy.

sweet potato carrot & pepper soup:

fry an onion, chopped large sweet potato and same weight carrots, add 1 or 2 chopped red peppers.
boil up with some veg/chick stock.
blitz.

very velvety and sweet.

Curried cauliflower soup. Our favourite

Roughly chop
Three quarters of a cauliflower into florets and fry lightly so that it goes nice and brown on the outside.

Roughly chop
1 onion
2 Red peppers
3 sticks of celery
and add them to the cauli for a quick fry.

Add three quarters of a pint of veg stock and as much curry powder as you like. Simmer for 20 mins.

Stir in a cup of milk, and warm for 2 more mins. Just before serving add a blob of double cream and stir it in.

It's a lovely chunky soup, v. warming and great with freshly baked/warmed bread.

This is one of my favourites,
Carrot & coriander
1lb carrots
1 large onion
a small potato
a large cooking apple
2oz marg
2pt veg stock
bunch coriander
cream 1/4 pt

chop & sautee veg & apple, add stock. Simmer for 30mins.
Cool, blend. To serve reheat add chopped coriander and cream.
I suppose you could omit the cream!