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Hunnybunny
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Topic: Soup! Posted: 09 April 2010 at 6:09pm |
Ok, I need some inspiration, I wanna start making some soups to freeze.. But, what kind?!
DH and I don't like pumpkin, but for the sake of others, you could post a recipe
So far I have ideas for:
Potato and leek
Kumara? Can you make Kumara soup?
Vege
Chicken
Carrot and...??
Pea and ham..
But I need recipes! And I need inspiration for other TYPES of soup, I don't wanna be making the same ones over again!
I want a few different types that we can freeze, so can each have a different flavour at night times if we feel like something!
Also, crock pot recipes are good? We have a crock pot, I also have a soup pot though so quantities aren't really a worry...
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Bexee
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Posted: 09 April 2010 at 7:44pm |
Oh yay, a post I'll be following with interest.
I make a vege soup out of the Kings soup mix and a bacon hock. I normally hack the meat off the bacon hock as I sometimes find it goes a bit fatty or salty if I just put the whole lot in.
Then I add a couple or three potatoes grated and finely chopped, the same with carrots, onion, celery if I can be bothered and some salt and pepper.
Can be done in crock pot or on the stove top, I usually simmer it really low for three or four hours... and it's always nicer the next day or after being frozen.
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Posted: 09 April 2010 at 7:50pm |
I make vege soup all the time, infact I made a huge pot full this week as I am so sick of eating salad! I just ate a huge bowl for dinner!
I boil up some chicken or bacon with bones included to make a broth. Then I pull out the meat and de-bone it. I then chuck in all the veges and boil them in the broth then add the meat back in when its cooked. I use all types of veges and I make it really thick and leave it lumpy. I also chuck in whatever I have in the cupboard, stock flavouring, salt, pepper, soy sauce, worceshire sauce, tomato sauce, vegemite, marmite!
Every time it tastes so different and is always so so scrummy!!! Yum, yum yum,!!
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Posted: 09 April 2010 at 9:25pm |
My Mum sent me this recipe for kumara and lentil soup.
It is absolutely amazing, so hearty and flavoursome.
Chunky kumara, lentil and ginger soup.
The chilli is not essential but will add a lovely contrast to the sweet creaminess of the soup. Serve with plenty of crusty bread.
½ cup green lentils, washed, then boiled for 5 minutes in water, drained and set aside
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 red onions, chopped
2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
2 large golden kumara, peeled and diced in 1cm chunks
1.5 litres vegetable or chicken stock
1 teaspoon flaky sea salt and ground black pepper 150ml cream
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon manuka honey
½ cup thick Greek yoghurt
zest and juice of 2 limes
Optional: 1 small chilli, deseeded and
finely chopped
Garnish: flat-leafed parsley
Gently heat oil in a deep saucepan. Add onions and ginger and sweat over a medium heat for a few minutes, stirring occasionally to avoid browning too much. Add the partly cooked lentils, diced kumara and stock and simmer for 20 minutes or until the kumara is very tender and able to be mashed with a fork. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
With a stick blender, purée a quarter of the mixture in a separate bowl then return to the rest of the soup.
To serve, reheat the soup; add cream, soy sauce and honey. Check seasoning. Mix the yoghurt, lime zest and juice and chilli together and dollop on top of the soup. Garnish with parsley leaves and serve immediately.
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Posted: 09 April 2010 at 9:39pm |
This is a really yummy comfort-food soup too, I never get tired of eating it!
2 cups milk
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
3 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
2 cubes chicken stock
1 1/2 cup boiling water
2 cups grated cheese
2 cups cooked finely chopped broccoli
Directions:
Cook onions in butter until tender. Blend in flour and seasonings and cook 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add boiling water and stock cubes and cook slowly until thick, stir in milk until smooth. Add the cheese and broccoli and heat through. Garnish with fresh chopped parsley.
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Posted: 10 April 2010 at 12:00am |
Im a bit the same as Peachy too, chuck in what ever
I dont really follow a recipe as such but this is generally what goes in my regular batches (Vege Soup)
Chicken Stock (if I am feeling too lazy to do it off a carcase or bone and to make a broth)
Potato
Pumpkin
Kumara
Carrots
Celery
Silverbeat
Onion
Garlic
Tiny pasta shells (to bulk it up)
Oats (to thicken it)
Barley (pre cooked, washed and drained)
Red Lentils (pre cooked, washed and drained)
Split Peas (not all the time if I forget to soak them)
Salt and Pepper
Cut all veges to desired size and shape
Put all veges and stock into a BIG pot
Add water to cover veges plus a tad more to allow for absorption
Bring to the boil then simmer for approx 1 hour
Serve with Garlic bread and eat - Yummmo
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Posted: 16 April 2010 at 3:30pm |
www.deliaonline.com has some nice looking ones.
I know you don't like pumpkin, but I'm just making this one:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12808/butternut-squash-soup-with-chilli-and-crme-frache?pager.offset=20
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Posted: 16 April 2010 at 4:52pm |
I make vege soup using kings soup mix too - add in what ever vege I have on hand a couple of spoon fuls of soup mix and 2 litres of stock - yummo instant soup for the two of us.
This is my pumpkin recipe
chop leeks, onions, garlic and ginger add to pot with 50gm of butter, cook until onions are soft.
Add 600gm peeled, seeded and chopped pumpkin - cook until almost tender - add 1tsp tumeric and 2 litres vege stock (I buy the campbells one) simmer until pumpkin is cooked. - Add salt and pepper to taste.
Either puree till smooth or I use a potato masher and serve it chunky - with grated strong cheddar or parmesan on top to serve.
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Posted: 05 May 2010 at 9:57am |
HB this is my soup i make in my slow cooker
Bacon & Vege Soup
Ingredients:
1 bacon hock
1 packet Kings Hearty Vege soup mix (but you could probably use any)
about 9-10 cups hot water
Veges! - i usually use potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, swede, leeks, capsicum, onion or spring onions etc (pretty much anything you want and as much as you want to fill up the cooker!).
Method:
Place bacon hock into bottom of slow cooker. Add soup mix and 9-10 cups hot water (adjust to size of cooker). Stir. Cut up veges (either by hand or food processor) into little pieces (or bigger if you like chunky soup) and place in cooker. Cook on low for 7-8 hours or until the meat falls off the bone (or on high for about 3-4 hours i think). Take the meat out and cut up into pieces and return to the cooker to heat through again. Season with salt & pepper if needed. Eat & enjoy!
I find there is enough lentils etc in the soup mix although you could easily add more if you wanted. This recipe makes a lot of soup - enough for 2 dinners and lunches during the week :) and is so delicious!
am going to try this one with some left over corned beef instead of the bacon hock. and i saved some of the stock that i cooked a corned beef in a couple of weeks ago so will take that out of the freezer and use that instead of some of the water. should be yum!
theres a recipe i just found online for a corned beef and cabbage soup that i will post too.
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Posted: 05 May 2010 at 9:58am |
Corned Beef & Cabbage Soup
Use leftover cooked corned beef or deli corned beef in this flavorful soup. Serve this soup with a salad and hot buttered biscuits for a delicious meal.
Ingredients:
•2 tablespoons butter
•1 1/2 cups chopped onion
•1 cup sliced celery
•2 cloves garlic, minced
•2 quarts chicken broth
•1 1/2 cups chopped or julienne-cut carrots
•1/2 small head cabbage, coarsely chopped, about 4 to 5 cups
•1/4 cup pearled barley
•1 small bay leaf
•1 tablespoon fresh chopped parsley, or 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
•1/2 teaspoon dried leaf thyme
•1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
•2 to 2 1/2 cups diced cooked corned beef, about 10 to 12 ounces
•1 can (14.5 ounces) tomatoes, diced, undrained
•salt, to taste
Preparation:
Heat butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add onion and celery; sauté, stirring frequently, until tender. Add garlic and continue cooking for 1 minute. Stir in chicken broth, carrots, cabbage, and barley. Add the bay leaf, parsley, thyme, and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; cover and simmer for 45 minutes. Stir in corned beef and tomatoes; increase heat and return to the boil. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes. Taste and add salt.
Serves 6 to 8.
havent tried this but want to give it a go, sounds yummy!
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Posted: 22 May 2010 at 2:55am |
I love veges soup.Nice recipes . I'll try them all . ehe !
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Posted: 26 May 2010 at 12:40pm |
That looks like some great recipes
How many of you puree your vege soups and how many leave it chunky? I noticed one recipe mentions it.
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Posted: 26 May 2010 at 4:28pm |
CHUNKY nom nom nom how chunky it is depends on how small i cut the veges (or how small the food processor chops them up!)
ohh i really feel like soup tonight! might have to see what i can rustle up
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Posted: 23 June 2010 at 4:42pm |
bumpity bump! seeing as it is soup season
keep the recipes coming ladies!
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Posted: 11 July 2010 at 2:28pm |
I have a really yummy roast vege soup:
2 carrots, 1 parsnip, 800g unpeeled pumpkin, 350g kumara, 1 red pepper, 2 onions, 4 cloves garlic.
Roast veges at 180 degrees for an hour then remove red pepper. Continue roasting rest of veges for another 30 mins. Remove skin from red pepper (although I never bother!). Scrape skins off pumpkin and kumara (I never bother with taking anything off the kumara either). Add 3 cups vege or chicken stock and puree everything together.
Add sour cream to serve.
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Posted: 11 July 2010 at 2:31pm |
oh, and another super easy one:
Taco soup
Puree one can of tomatoes, one can corn, one can chilli beans, add chicken stock until soup is the right thickness. Heat.
To serve crush some corn chips into the bottom of a bowl (weird I know but it is delicious!), fill with soup and top with grated cheese.
Got to be the easiest soup in the world!
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Posted: 12 July 2010 at 12:22pm |
Ooh, that sounds good.
Another one ..
Sweat onions/garlic in olive oil for 10 minutes
Add one potato, one kumara and one carrot. Sweat another 10 minutes.
Add 3C vege stock, simmer for 20 minutes
Add 1-2T miso paste and one courgette, cook 10 minutes.
Very very yummy.
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Posted: 13 July 2010 at 3:05pm |
oh how I LOVE soup!! I think I could eat it all winter long with the occasional bit of garlic bread thrown in on the side.
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