Soup challenge
I heart soup. All soup. I know it's not really soup season, but I love a cup of soup with my lunch, no matter what the weather. Yesterday I spent my day off making 4 different kinds of soup to freeze, one was new but the rest are old faves, and I was thinking maybe it's time for some fresh ideas.
Please post your recipe for your all-time favorite homemade soup. Let's soup it up!
We've had long threads about soups before, but you're right - we need a nice fresh one with new ideas. Just because it's summer doesn't mean there's no soup! Here's my contribution - no cooking needed, served cold
Ah a perfect summer soup! I've never made a no-cook soup before, or a gazpacho of any kind, so I appreciate the recipe from someone who endorses it!
Mmmm yum to soup! I'll also eat it in any weather and make a classic from scratch chicken soup, will post and link recipe shortly, also a nifty beef soup. victoriagirl you made 4 soups today! You must post your recipes too!!! :-P
Happy Independence Day!
Original Post by victoriagirl:
Ah a perfect summer soup! I've never made a no-cook soup before, or a gazpacho of any kind, so I appreciate the recipe from someone who endorses it!
I learned to make it in Spain, in 1962 and have been making it ever since. I know there are variations, but this is the basic recipe. In Spain they use more olive oil and there is always bread in it, but it's lighter without and just as good.
Surfkitty's classic chicken soup 
I'm making it right now!
surfkitty - here's another interesting chicken soup recipe - I haven't tried this yet, but it looks delicious. I quite like the exotic combo of ingredients; something different from the classic. :)
Soup season is coming! I did a Forum Search and here are the past threads, for your inspiration
Yesterday I made a pot of vegetable. I did carrots, celery, onions and tomatoes for the base, then added green beans, corn and some leftover turkey. The seasoning was parsley, bay leaf, pepper, a whole jalapeno which I removed, lots of garlic, and a dash of turmeric for a brighter color. It was a fast soup - only about 30 minutes of cooking, but I noticed that it got better when I had some in the evening. It's in the fridge right now, waiting. I bet the flavors are even more developed.
These are two yummy soups - I make in bulk and freeze individual portions. Enjoy!
http://caloriecount.about.com/aoifes-roast-pu mkin-soup-recipe-r247974
and
http://caloriecount.about.com/aoifes-thai-but ternut-squash-soup-recipe-r258507
Surfkitty- Thanks for sharing your chicken soup recipe, I will have to give that a try! Sounds soo delicious!
Claire- that sounds very good! Mmm!
Recipes_cook- Bit too exotic for my taste though for some reason- reminds me of a jerk chicken style "soup" with pineapples and mandarin oranges. Mmm!
Demerara- Am a bit nervous with soup and pumpkin together. Perhaps some day when I have the courage. :) Thanks for sharing your faves!
im not adding a recipie but this is what i do when craving soup
roast vegetables with oil, blend of any spices mexican or indian work best, than once thats done heat up some stock and add all the ingredients and some buttermilk and blend!
last night i did this roasted sweet potato, onion and garlic with chilli, cumin, curry powder, corriander, salt and pepper, put in some broccolli with the stock and whizzed it together! it was so darn good and filling!
Am making chicken tortilla soup tonight. Just put the recipe together now from memory and will update it as needed tonight - likely the only update will be quantities for spices.
http://caloriecount.about.com/jannids-chicken -tortilla-soup-recipe-r263624
This is a family fave that I've made for years. The tortillas are not the crispy ones, but the soft ones - they become "noodles" in the soup! Although you could easily use the other if you prefer.
One nice thing about soup is that it is extremely flexible so you can change it to suit ingredients that are on hand.
I love soup and for me it knows no season. Not a fan of the cold soups though, mainly the brothy hot ones that are filled with beans and veges!
Yay the soup thread has been revived!
I have a new favourite soup, well one of them anyway....it's so filling and low-cal it's insane. I will write it out here since i am completely inept at entering recipes into the analyzer thingie:
Hearty Miso Soup
Put in a pot: 5C water, 1 Tbsp miso paste, 1 Tbsp low-sodium soy sauce, 1 tsp chicken stock base, 1 tsp chili-garlic paste, 4 sliced mushrooms, 85g cubed medium tofu, and 1 square rice vermicelli noodles. Bring to a boil, turn down to low and simmer for 5 minutes.
Add in: 1C shredded cabbage, simmer 5 more minutes.
Add in: 1 beaten egg white, swilred into broth, and 100g raw shrimp or prawns, simmer 1 more minute.
Add in 1 or 2 sliced green onions, Enjoy!
I created this recipe as I love miso soup and Hot and Sour soup, so it's kind of a morph of the two. I've also made it with broccoli and/or sugar snap peas in it, but broccoli does not reheat well so I'd only include it if eating right away.
This makes a full pot of soup, with a total calorie count of 350 calories...if you want a very filling low-cal lunch you could eat the entire pot. I've done it but felt a bit silly. It's a LOT of soup for one meal.
Fall screams for soup. I Heart soup too, and love creamy ones. I just made cream of mushroom using Fat Free Coffee Cream and it was great.
Saute mushrooms and onions and garlic, add a bit of parsley and a can of mushroom soup, a can of water and a can of FF cream: YUMBO.
I just made this today:
I let the blender run on puree for several minutes, until it was velvety smooth. Delicious!
These are some of my favorites. They're Korean soups and I eat them often as I live there. haha
Dwenjang Jjigae (fermented soybean paste stew) <--- I don't like seafood in mine and have never eaten it that way... I always get it without.
Samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup) <--- this is really popular here and is eaten on the hottest day of summer. It's full of herbs and things that are really good for your body.
What do you think would be a good substiture for kimchi? Mayve regular cabbage?
In the last recipe it asks for jujubes. I am thinking that must mean something different than the candies!!
There's no substitute for kimchi. haha Find a Korean market and get some there. The entire base of kimchi jjigae is the kimchi. It's gives the taste.
And jujubes.... not the candy. Hmm... It's like a fruit kind of thing. It reminds me of a date sort of. You could just leave that out of the samgyetang though and it not be a big deal.
Also, the red pepper powder called for in some of the recipes, I definitely recommend buying it at a Korean market too.
I love soup too. Making some vegetarian chili and split pea this weekend.
Today's homemade soup was...*drum roll pleeeeeeease*
BUTTERNUT SQUASH, CARROT, & SAGE
Yum yum yum
Serves 3:
2 medium carrots
half a red onion
330g squash
1 clove garlic
0.5tsp nutmeg
pinch of cayenne pepper
1tsp chopped fresh sage.
1tsp vegetable bouillon powder
You guys probably know the drill: Chop it, boil it, blitz it right :P
Tastes damn good :D I can't wait for there to be pumpkins in the shops over here. I need me some pumpkin :D
My friends at uni have nicknamed me the Soup Dragon (from kids tv show the Clangers if you don't know) because I just love my soup :D
(can you tell I'm excited to be going back to uni tomorrow!)
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