What are your best tasty healthy soup recipes?..

[Workinghardeveryday]

I am going to have a soup making afternoon tomorrow 😊.

I would love to hear what your best soup recipes are that are healthy. I am aiming for soups without meat, broccoli, peas, sweet corn and lentils.

Thank you 😊

Make this soup regularly. Highly recommended.

Minestrone
Baked butternut squash soup with pumpkin seeds and coriander to garnish
Celery soup
Pasta bean and tomato soup
Roast tomato soup
Leek and potato
Mulligatawny
We eat a lot of soup ha ha

Roasted tomato.
Cut in half a load of tomatoes, and pretty much fill a roasting dish. Pour on some oil, shake to cover the tomatoes, and put in oven at 190 for 45-55 mins.
Meanwhile, saute 2 onions, 2 carrots, and 3 sticks of celery in a pan until just coloured. When the tomatoes are done, tip into the pan with the veg, and add some (chicken or) veg stock. Bring to boil for a couple of mins, then cool a bit before blending smooth. Season to taste. DS likes dream added when served.

DS like cream, not dream, in his soup!

Red pepper, chilli and lime (can add beans or rice of you want a more filling soup)
Sweet potato, smoked paprika and chipotle (I put in some chorizo but you don't have to)
Mushroom dashi broth
Roasted tomato and basil (make big batches in the summer from the tomatoes and herbs or freezes well)
I really like laksa too but not sure if it's a stretch to call it soup....

Thank you all! Lots of ideas for tomorrow.

Cannot wait to get started 😊

I'm terrible with recipes, I don't follow them, I tend to vaguely find the name of a soup, then just make it up.
This week I've made bacon broth, pea and mint, and green veg and rice.
I'm going to make a batch of minestrone this evening.

Carrot and Butterbean
Saute a finely chopped onion until translucent, Grate two carrots. Add to onion in saucepan with vegetable stock and a half a teaspoon of dried coriander. Simmer for 5 mins. Add a small tin of drained, rinsed butter beans and a sprinkle of fresh coriander.
You can also add lentils or a diced potato if you want to thicken it.

Butternut Squash, Ginger and Coconut

Couple of large butternut squash - slice in half and roast on a gentle heat until soft

Meanwhile, sauté a large brown onion in olive oil until soft and slightly caramelised.

Add some veg stock (I use marigold bouillon). Maybe a litre?

Add a couple of chopped carrots

Add a good chunk of grated fresh ginger

Add a teaspoon of desiccated coconut

When the butternut squash is soft scoop it into the pan minus the seeds.

Cook it all together then blitz until smooth. You can add more stock if you want. We like it quite thick.

You could prob use coconut milk instead of the desiccated coconut which would make it nice and creamy but you need to be careful not to add to much or it tastes a bit like a korma!

It’s lovely and great for colds.

OP did you mean you don’t want any recipes with lentils? I do a great one but it has lentils in in.

Love soup!

@JurgensCakeBaby do you have a good laksa recipe? LOVE laksa

@WinterCarlisle that sounds lovely! I can’t eat lentils unfortunately

@WinterCarlisle I'm not really a recipe cook but I think it started as an approximation of this www-greatbritishchefs-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/spicy-noodle-laksa-recipe/amp?amp_js_v=a6&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#aoh=16368362546967&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatbritishchefs.com%2Frecipes%2Fspicy-noodle-laksa-recipe

Except if using prawns I wouldn't add until right near the end

This one is good but faffy (I also add turmeric)

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I frequently make green soup, which admittedly does look a bit like a swamp. It's essentially all the green veg languishing in the fridge, spring onions, celery, spinach, lettuce, courgette etc. If I have a sad potato that needs to be used I bung that in too, if not I use less stock so it is a bit thicker. Can add garlic/ bit of chilli.

@JurgensCakeBaby thank you so much!

@Workinghardeveryday - oh poor you re lentils. My mum can’t either. Can you eat quinoa? I add that to most soups to up the protein as we’re vegetarian.

Here’s my other best soup recipe which I think would still be nice minus the lentils. Again, apologies for no accurate quantities…….

Sweet Potato, Tomato and Paprika

4 large or 8 small sweet potatoes
Couple of cartons plain passata
4 large carrots
Vegetable stock
Good amount of smoked paprika
about 250g red lentils
Red onion

I just chop everything up and shove it in a big pan with the passata and plenty of veg stock to cover - you will need to add more as it cooks - then boil / simmer it all until it’s all soft. Then blitz. Again, it’s thick enough to use as cement really. Very filling and really comforting. You can also add chilli flakes if you like spice. I really think the trick here is plenty of smoked paprika to give it that depth of flavour.

My DC like it on cold evenings with a cheese toastie or some pizza to dip.

Happy soup making! This is a great thread

This one is a favourite of ours, it's reasonably substantial as well:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/thai-chicken-and-sweet-potato-soup

I roast any veg that needs using up from the fridge in the oven with a bit of salt and pepper and a drizzle of oil. Normally it is carrots, red onion, peppers, butternut squash, sweet potato - any combination of these but anything goes really. I also pop a whole chilli and several cloves of garlic in to roast with them.

Then, once soft, I put them in a stock pot on the hob and add vegetable stock, frozen lumps of spinach, tomato puree, paprika and cumin. Boil up and blitz until smooth (often need to add more water).

Fresh coriander works really well in this recipe as well, if you have some in.

@Hetyanni that sounds lovely!