Soup recipes

[MrJuice]

With it being so cold, we are trying to have soup at least once a day

I can only really make tomato soup and chicken soup.

Tomato is a case of boiling tomato and basil until tomatoes soft. Blitz. Fry off 1/4 of an onion in butter, sieve the blitzed liquid into the pan, season, heat through and serve. Yum

I also make croutons by baking seasoned squares of bread with a light coating of olive oil.

[Motorman74]

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/herby-chicken-...

We make that fairly often through the winter - really tasty! Definitely better blended than not

[Carguy44]

That chicken soup sounds nice, I might make that tomorrow.

[Jer_1974]

I use my Instapot a few times a week to make soup. I set it so it's ready to blitz and serve when I come home for lunch. I use the minimum amount of liquid (normally 125 to 250ml) then add hot water to get the desired consistency as nothing worse than watery soup.

My usuals are:

Broccoli and stilton
Cauliflower and cheese
Mushroom
Leak and potato
Pea and ham
Lentil
Cullen skink but not in the instapot.

My wife makes a roasted tomato with pesto which is lovely but it's a pain in the arse roasting the tomatoes de-seeding and skinning so would love a good tomato soup recipe without all the messing about possibly using tinned tomatoes.

[MrJuice]

Nice

Tell me about the mushroom soup recipe please

I'm all for instant pot recipes. Wife has one that needs more use

[Jer_1974]

MrJuice said:

Nice

Tell me about the mushroom soup recipe please

I'm all for instant pot recipes. Wife has one that needs more use

Fry an onion and a clove of garlic, chuck in a punnet of mushroom, and a potato (chopped) or two to thicken. Add half a teaspoon of veg bullion or chicken stock cube 200ml of water and cook in the instapot for ten minutes. Once cooked add some cream, salt pepper and blitz. Add more hot water salt and pepper if needed.

Edited by Jer_1974 on Sunday 11th December 19:53

[MrJuice]

Thanks. Will try this

[juggsy]

Jer_1974 said:

My wife makes a roasted tomato with pesto which is lovely but it's a pain in the arse roasting the tomatoes de-seeding and skinning so would love a good tomato soup recipe without all the messing about possibly using tinned tomatoes.

I made a roasted tomato soup from YouTube the other day, always a bit dubious for YT recipes but it was honestly delicious.

Tomatoes, onions, peppers, garlic roasted in the air fryer - whole, seeded with skins on so minimal faff. Then blended with stock and a paste made from tomato paste, rose harissa, fennel, honey and soy. Bit of cream, served with a toasted cheese sandwich also made in the air fryer: https://youtube.com/shorts/P-2JQE0F5y8?feature=sha...

(Press and hold, recipe in description)

[Jer_1974]

If your looking at using your instapot more. every morning in the winter I make porridge with the pot in a pot method.

Use the trivit
cup of water in the bottom of the pot.
Large Pirex jug with a pint of water, pinch of salt, 100g of oats, blueberry's and two teaspoons of stevia or sugar.

Porridge setting for 15 minutes to come on 45 minutes before the alarm clock.

Stir, make coffee stir again.

Central heating for the body and works at 5p per 50g of oats for breakfast with a pyrex jug to chuck in the dishwasher.

[Jer_1974]

juggsy said:

I made a roasted tomato soup from YouTube the other day, always a bit dubious for YT recipes but it was honestly delicious.

Tomatoes, onions, peppers, garlic roasted in the air fryer - whole, seeded with skins on so minimal faff. Then blended with stock and a paste made from tomato paste, rose harissa, fennel, honey and soy. Bit of cream, served with a toasted cheese sandwich also made in the air fryer: https://youtube.com/shorts/P-2JQE0F5y8?feature=sha...

(Press and hold, recipe in description)

Will give this a go, thanks.

[xstian]

I'm not a vegetarian, but I only really make vegetable based soups. I'm not really a fan of over cooked meat. I do find using homemade meat stocks can add loads of flavour though, some things to do with the fat I suppose. Obviously not all soups lend themselves to meat stock though.

Current favourite soups at the moment are spicy Mexican bean soup, ribollita soup and pea and parsley soup. The pea and parsley I have made twice in 3 weeks, its good.

[craigjm]

I make them up as I go along. The other day I made a spicy carrot and coconut soup. Roast a bunch of carrots. Meanwhile sweat down some onions, garlic and chilli and then add some curry spices of your choice. Cook off the spices and then add in the roasted carrot and some veg stock. When it’s all warm blitz it down and then add coconut milk until you get the consistency you want adding extra chilli and salt and pepper to taste

I should write them down because I often forget how I made them haha

[Jer_1974]

craigjm said:

I make them up as I go along. The other day I made a spicy carrot and coconut soup. Roast a bunch of carrots. Meanwhile sweat down some onions, garlic and chilli and then add some curry spices of your choice. Cook off the spices and then add in the roasted carrot and some veg stock. When it’s all warm blitz it down and then add coconut milk until you get the consistency you want adding extra chilli and salt and pepper to taste

I should write them down because I often forget how I made them haha

Yes, soup should be made with anything left over in the veg drawer or fridge, any reduced veg from the supermarket or dried beans, rice and pulses you have in the cupboard.

[adsk]

A couple of others that I make regularly both taking a very humble vegetable as their base.

Spicy swede soup https://www.aldi.co.uk/spiced-swede-soup/p/0000000...
Cabbage & caraway https://www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes/swedish-cabb...

[aberdeeneuan]

This always goes down well in our house, made it yesterday. Freezes well too.

http://hemsleyandhemsley.com/recipe/quick-red-soup...

This is also good, though I never tell the kids it’s courgette soup.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/courgette-pota...

[Mobile Chicane]

The answer to a tomato based soup is the ‘gastrique’. Equal volumes of sugar and vinegar, boiled and reduced by half. Really lifts the flavour of any tomato dish.

[UTH]

I'm really keen to try some sort of thai/noodle/chickeny type soup if something like that exists......anyone done something like that?

[MrJuice]

Ditto

Looking for tried and tested simple ramen recipes

[Gone a bit AMG]

Butternut squash is a winner.

Roast a halved de seeded squash with a few cloves of garlic.

Gently fry leeks and onions until starting to colour, add a bit of Thai curry paste fry some more add stock, the chopped up squash and garlic. Simmer for 10, blitz then add coconut milk at the right consistency