What are your favourite soup recipes?

[Secondguess]

What are your favourite soup recipes?
I usually do ones from my childhood like lentil/carrot/chicken and am not usually keen on spicy soups.
Looking for inspiration, for the colder months.

Avolemone (spelling?)

Greek chicken and lemon. 🍋

Avgolemono!

That sounds beautiful.

Leek and potato. Red lentils, tomato and bacon. Mushroom (really quick and easy)

Roast parsnip, butternut squash, carrots and an onion with bay leaves for about 45 minutes. Chuck in a pot and add stock, water, creme fraiche and 2 tablespoons of honey- Cook for about 10 minutes.

For a special occasion as not that healthy.

Melt 25g butter, add 25g flour, stir, add pint 1/2 milk and 1/2 water, add chicken oxo cube, salt & pepper, loads of brown mushrooms chopped up as small as you can. Cook for 10 mins, blitz in the liquidiser, reheat if required, add a splash of cream and serve with a drizzle of truffle oil, and a nice crusty roll with butter!

Butternut squash with smoked paprika and a sprinkling of chilli flakes is my current fave

I soup any left over veg with one onion fried gently until soft with plenty of garlic and a potato chopped up into really small cubes, 800ml chicken/veg stock and then chuck in whatever veg you have. Simmer for 30 minutes then season well and blitz. Last week's veg was celery which I really wasn't sure about but it was lovely so I'm making it again this weekend. This week was spring cabbage which was also really nice. The only one which went straight in the bin was beetroot. It was rank.

Delia's celery and celeriac soup, absolutely delicious. Delia's celery and celeriac soup.

I have so many saved

Chicken and sweetcorn

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Broccoli and cheese

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Roasted veg and lentil

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Chicken minestrone

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Sausage leek and lentil

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Marry me chicken soup (I used orzo in this)

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Leek and potato
minestrone

Following

Mine vary by colour - red (red peppers, onion, garlic roasted, simmered with tin toms and stock and blitzed), green (spinach and any veg in drawer with onion, garlic, nutmeg, blitzed with stock), orange (carrots, squash then same as above). Season well, few chilli flakes if liked, serve all with grated cheese, creme fraiche and crusty bread.
Edited to add, sound boring but tasty, cheap and popular!

Orecchiette, mushroom and beetroot soup:

Chop a large handful of mushrooms finely. Fry in olive oil.

Grate a raw beetroot, add to pan along with a small clove of garlic, fry briefly.
Add orecchiette, water, a stock cube, pinch of mixed spice, teaspoon of caraway and some black pepper. A handful of chopped up tomatoes can also be added now or a small amount of passata. Cook for about 10 mins.

Chop us some green leaves, spinach (fresh or frozen), chard, watercress, rocket; anything that is lurking and looking sad. Cook for another couple of mins.

Turn off heat and leave to stand for 10 mins.

Stir in a handful of hard cheese or a couple of teaspoons of nutritional yeast and serve. Add a tin of black beans to make a full dinner.

😂

I'm another one who makes soup by colour. Kids love it and you get to hide veggies.

This is absolutely divine.

Thanks

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-noodle-soup

This chicken noodle soup recipe is lovely. I always make it if I’m feeling a bit under the weather and chuck loads of fresh chilies in to make it extra spicy. Great for this time of year!

Sorry, just seen you’re not keen on spice! Just omit the chilli, still really tasty.

Chickpea and butternut squash. Old weightwatchers recipe.
Tin of chickpeas, tin of tomatoes, 1 x butternut squash, 1 x onion, cumin, cinnamon, 600mls veg stock. Bung in a pot, cook for 15- 20 mins and blend. Lovely.

If I need soup in a hurry I do a courgette soup. Spend some time cooking out chopped onions and garlic without them colouring, then add sliced courgettes, a pinch of chilli flakes, and stock, black pepper. The courgettes cook really quickly. Then check for seasoning, blend and serve with a dollop of cream cheese or Greek yogurt and some pan fried croutons.

I did a courgette and pea soup recently:

roast chopped courgettes in the oven with chopped leeks (or onion) and garlic for about 40 min at 180 C (toss in olive oil and season first)
defrost a cupful of peas in boiling water and stock cube
add the roasted veg
blitz with added basil (and or mint)

Thanks again everyone for all the lovely ideas.

@YessicaHaircut that one sounds delicious - I haven't explained myself well there, I do sometimes like spicy soups but I always like the non-spicy ones.