Your best soup recipes

[Abeona]

I've just been asked to provide a veggie soup for 12 people for a community event on Friday. I've been told no tomatoes and no lentils.

Will you tell me your favourite soup recipes, please? Given the group I'll be feeding, I think the soup needs to be fairly mainstream — nothing too exotic that'll frighten the horses...

Just do ‘Winter Vegetable Soup’ - onion, carrots, swede, potato, whatever's lurking in your vegetable drawer, stock cube, seasoning, water. Boil it up and blend the whole thing to within an inch of its life.

You really won’t get everyone to agree on the soup. Stop discussing it and just make your choice acknowledging the real allergies. Tell them if they ask it’s a “surprise soup” 😀

I used to make soup once a month for a weekly seniors club. I once made a veg soup using Thai curry paste and seriously, seriously underestimated how hot it would be.

Biggest hit ever. I thought I was gonna kill some of them but they loved it.

E*mma888 "to end any such nonsense" 😂

Actualmermaid -* that soup sounds incredible but presumably for a special occasion? It sounds delicious.

We have vegetable soup once a week but I always use puy/blue lentils as I love the flavour.

I always take half the soup out and liquify it to make the broth richer.

Last week I had a load of very garlicky roasted cauliflower and I liquidised all of it in some stock and added it to our general veg soup. It added something ass kicking to the taste.

I always add a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar to my soup as a chef told me once to do that.

Leek and potato at its best is a wonderful and glorious thing but I agree having good potatoes makes a noticeable difference.

Love this thread. 🥣

Our favourite soup at the moment is celery soup. I don't add potatoes as there are just two of us to feed.
I serve with the celery leaves finely chopped and a swirl of cream.

I could eat a bowl now ☺️

If I am making soup for a dozen people or more I always make butternut squash and carrot.

Onions, leeks and garlic sautéed until soft.
Add peeled and chopped squash and carrots.
Cover with boiling water and simmer until vegetables are soft. Blend using a stick blender.

Add veggie stock cubes and a heaped tablespoon of Korma Paste.
Season of necessary.

Add milk/cream/ crème fraiche to taste.
Serve with a swirl of cream and bread.

Oh and I always taste any soup I make; my DW sometimes doesn't and it makes a difference.

Thai sweet potato and coconut

Sweat an onion, add ginger, lemongrass and chilli.

Add chopped and peeled sweet potato

Add stock and cook until sweet pot is soft. Use a stick blender to blend it smooth.

Add some grated coconut cream (the block type) to taste.

Grate lime zest on top, squeeze lime juice in to lift.

Just ditch the bacon. Delicious.
https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/cheddar-corn-chowder

Courgette soup with Philadelphia cream cheese, oregano and onions/garlic and veggie stock. I’ll post the recipe if you’d like it OP.

Cheese comes in as veggie I think, would be vegan if no milk.

Beetroot, cayenne pepper and ginger. Had it in a cafe once, really nice.

Even my soup hating daughter liked this one - used to have a pot of t ready for when they came home frozen after school in the winter https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/indian-chickpea-vegetable-soup

This is my new favourite winter soup

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/mulligatawny-soup

Just soften some onions, add cubed potatoes and carrots chuck in a couple of stock cubes with water cook till soft.

Season to taste with salt and pepper

Even the fussiest of pensioners will be happy with that

I can't get the link to work but a Mnetter posted a Tesco recipe for curried sweet potato soup with peanut butter. I was sceptical but I had a bag of sweet potatoes to use up. I made it tonight and it's epic! Thank you! That's my lunches at work sorted for the next week

Fussy people really irritate me, I wouldn't like to live with that kind of limitation to my diet. How very boring x

OP is cooking for a range of people who all have their likes and dislikes, its not 'fussy' to have a range of likes and dislikes at all even in one person but OP has a mixture of people who will inevitably disagree with each other about what should be served.

That sounds like a variation of a west African peanut stew, which I make with peanut butter and sweet potato. It's delicious and I can see that it would work as a soup. I've got excess sweet potatoes at the moment so perhaps today's the day for making soup for me instead of others.