Favourite soup recipes please.

[LaTrucha]

I'm in pregnancy malaise about food and am bored of all the things I cook. I cook alot of soup because it suits us and have a pretty good repertoire - none of which I feel like cooking AGAIN.

We're off to the supermarket tomorrow: what can I try?

Broccoli and stilton, and carrot and celeriac are our faves, but if you're a big soup person, you've prob already done those!

Yeah, if you're into soups, you've probably tried most!

but I like spicey lentil (Gordon Ramsay has a great recipe if you want it) and celeriac with a bit of garlic.

My mum does a gorgeous cauliflower soup which is lovely with cheese sprinkled on top. I know the recipe but it never tastes like hers IYKWIM!

Roasted red pepper and tomato is yummy, a d my personal favourite is watercress soup or good old French onion with cheesy croutons!

I do a nice vegetable soup, I just fry some onion and garlic until it's soft and then add some chopped celery, carrots and potatoes into the pan and let them sweat for about 5/10 mins mins. I then add stock and a couple of handfuls of barley and some mixed dried herbs and leave it simmering for at least an hour. After about 30 mins I add some red lentils and then about 10 mins before the end I chuck in some butter beans. I just add more water/stock as and when it needs it. Then after an hour or so it's ready to serve just as it is, not blended or anything.

summer soup: handfuls of lettuce, spinach, watercress and sorrel wilted then blended with chicken stock.

Delia's tomato, apple and celery - a slight faff because you sweat the veg under a greaseproof paper cartouche, but really intense and lovely and easy to do a big batch slightly more concentrated then freeze in mini-portions to dilute when you serve them.

This spinach, chickpea and chorizo soup is delicious and filling. I don't great the egg on top as Jamie suggests. IMO it doesn't need it.

Oops, grate not great!

Nice suggestions. I'll have a look about for the Delia and Ramsay recipes and get back to you if I can't find them. Thanks.

Am I being too precious avoiding stilton in soup whilst pregnant. Someone did tell me that if it was cooked, it would be fine but I'm never too sure becuase it just goes in at the end, doesn't it?

Peppermintcream - do you find that the skins come off the peppers quite easily once they're roasted?

Bluebump - I like the idea of adding pulses to a more traditional vegetable soup. Thanks. I do one with carrot, celery, courgette, one tomato, stock and red lentils which we all love. Just sweat the veg down, add tomato,s tock and washed lentils. Boil simmer. Hey presto.

Don't you just love soup?

That Jamie one looks gorgeous.

cream of butternut squash with chilli - yum.

Some of these soups sound lovely. I might get cooking later

Do you put orange juice in that knockraven?

Found the Ramsay lentil (easy peasy thanks!)and the Delia recipes. Thanks.

Have you got a recipe for that please knockraven? It's Autum here and the shops are full of cheap squash/pumpkins

Recipe from me - ha ha ha I don't really do them lol

It was made up when I had some left over roasted butternut squash and I adapted a BBC Good Food recipe.

Basically heat oven to 200 deg c roast. Peel and deseed butternut squash into chunks put some oil over, roast it for maybe 40 mins til soft iyswim.

Put some olive oil in saucepan, add 2 chopped onions, 2 cloves garlic, and 1 or 2 red chillies, depends how hot you like it.

sweat on a low heat, then add roasted squash and about a litre of veg stock.

blitz in a food processor, or with a blender, then add a small tub of cream. Voila.

Easy peasy!!! I am almost embarrassed lol

i love soup made with butternut squash sweet potatoe and carrot, some chicken stock and whatever herbs i feel like throwing in!

made a really yummy carrot soup at the weekend; just an onion 2 cloves of garlic, loads of carrots 1 potatoe and some stock. it really was yummy!

Butternut squash and carrot is a good idea. It need some sweetness.

Isn't that the great thing with soup - my kids call it bung dinners - ie I bung a load of stuff in a saucepan, and voila! Soup.

Thanks, that's how I would have done it but thought maybe there was a secret ingredient

Well, the first time I did it, I'd roasted the butternut squash with some honey over it at the end, and I have to say it was yummy

this is one of our faves

also look at the mn recipe section under soup, loads of great ones there

Thanks. I hadn't actually done that yet. Doh.

Sweet potaoe and chorizo really easy too make as well

Anything else in that? Onion etc?

Parnsip & Parmesan (New Covent Garden book of Soups) is one of our favourites. Think this is the one.

sweet potato (about 2), chicken stock, 5 or 6 carrots, some herbs, a smidge of cumin. cook it, blitz it, eat it. yum.
sadly, dh & dd don't like it , but i LOVE it.