Vegetable soup ideas please

[Chilli P]

Hi

I'm getting abit fed up with boiling Brussels, new pots, carrots and an onion in a saucepan with oxo cube and 1 garlic clove,

Does anyone have a recipe for veg soup, I'm on a diet so can't use cream

any suggestions would be greatly received.

Thanks

[PottyPot]

My recipe

1 small cup of dried white kidney beans soaked overnight
3 sticks of celery
5 large carrots
2 cloves garlic
1 medium onion
5 large potatoes
1 Leek
A small bunch of thyme
3 sage leaves
salt and pepper to taste
2 pints of veg stock


Wash and cut up veg so that it is all of similar size
Heat some olive oil in a deep saucepan and add garlic, onions, and celery. Cook for 5 mins over a medium heat stirring while they cook.

Add the rest of the veg and herbs to the saucepan and cook for another 5 mins. Now add the pre-soaked kidney beans, and stock, and turn down heat to lowest setting and simmer for one hour stirring ocassionally. The liquid should have reduced, and you can now remove the sage leaves and thyme stalks if any are in the pot.

Blitz with a stick blender or pour into a blender and blitz till course or smooth. Return to the saucepan and add salt and pepper to taste.

Serve with homemade crusty bread.

[Chilli P]

Thank you for that Pottypot it sounds good, alot better than the boil up i do, i will give it a go over the weekend, is there no end to your talent, home made bread aswell that would go well with the soup

[PottyPot]

Originally Posted by Chilli P

Thank you for that Pottypot it sounds good, alot better than the boil up i do, i will give it a go over the weekend, is there no end to your talent, home made bread aswell that would go well with the soup

You can't beat homemade bread

Tomato soup

First sow and grow the tomato San Marzano Nano and harvest the tomotoes.

Take about 5lb of tomatoes and place them into a clean washing up bowl. Pour over a large kettle of boiling water to split the skins.

Once skins are removed chop them up and set aside.

In a large saucepan sweat one large onion and 2 cloves of garlic in olive oil. When soft add the tomatoes and 2 pints of veg stock and simmer gently for 1 hour. I like to do it untill there is virtually no stock left in the pan, I then blitz till smooth

[smeagal]

Try cooking a borsch (beetroot soup )
Very filling and low in all the bad things

[Chilli P]

Hi

Please give your recipe, I'm on a mission for anything to do with eating veg.

I have 3 stone to lose by October apparently its my 50th and having to go on Murder mystery weekend and dress 70s. God help me, don't you just love your kids

[PottyPot]

Potato and wild garlic soup:

2lb of potatoes
1pint veg stock
large bunch of wild garlic
Salt and pepper to taste

Cook potatoes and wild garlic in stock until soft, blitz until smooth. Shred some fresh wild garlic leaves for garnish.

[Hollie the Wollie]

I like to roast the veg first, it brings out lots of natural sweetness and so hopefully remove the need to add cream.

What Ive done in the past is chop up carrots, onion, butternut squash or any squash/pumpkin, corgettes and any other veg that you can roast (not things like brassicas). I sometimes cover it with foil as especially the corgettes and squashes burn quite easily.

I also just chop up one large potato, I dont bother to roast that.

Roast for around an hour - it doesnt matter if some of the veg are not completely cooked as you will boil up when making the soup. Chuck in big old pot with water and a couple of stock cubes, maybe add fresh herbs, corriander, parsley whatever! I often find you still need to add a wee bit of salt to taste and pepper too which is yummy and then I wizz it up in a blender.

[Phoenix]

I made a spinach soup with our spinach that had almost bolted, using a big onion, some garlic, a couple of floury spuds, a veg stock cube, lots of water, and the spinach, popped it all in a big pan and cooked it all down, no oil or butter. When it was cooked, I checked seasoning, and then blitzed it smooth. Tasty! Still got a portion of it in the freezer

Nix

[bettie sage]

i became vegetarian in 1979 so soup is a mainstay

you need to invest in a hand blender.any combo of veg can be blended to make it creamy

oh and ditch the oxo :vomit...the best vegetable stock cubes in the world are knorr,followed closely by aldis

try carrot and ginger,and carrot and corriander if you get a glut of carrots

[Hollie the Wollie]

I bought some of Tesco's value brand stock cubes and I found them great! So cheap too!

[lisa4star]

Home made minestrone with some tortellini put in for the last few minutes and some Parmesan, mmmm.....

[smeagal]

Here is a link for some recipes
Healthy Soup Recipes For Weight Loss

Enjoy

[chrissy]

that link is good have put it in my favourites.
if you look in any shop that sells books you can find one that makes soups and they are great to try

[Phoenix558]

1 small cup of dried white kidney beans soaked overnight
3 sticks of celery
5 large carrots
2 cloves garlic
1 medium onion
5 large potatoes
1 Leek
A small bunch of thyme
3 sage leaves
salt and pepper to taste
2 pints of veg stock
awesome recipe, but please don't see its easy to make.
I got tired badly. Looking for some restaurant.