soup maker recipes

JaneJudge

Calistemon

Celery makes me itch! I have to avoid it.

are you allergic to it? a lot of people are apparently

I didn't realise until I ate a lot a few years ago then associated it with celery, celeriac etc.

Then found out it is an allergen.

I had a wonderful cauliflower soup in Brittany- they grow a lot of caulis

Cs783 Britanny Ferries was started because of cauliflowers!
I remember when it began - Breton farmers wanted to export cauliflowers to the UK ?
www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/information/about?error=login_required&state=eb71485d-d6ec-4f1e-bdf1-875befd0fee8

I never thought of using frozen veg somehow. Hmmmm...

I make soup virtually every week, but I rarely follow a recipe. None will include celery though - it's the one vegetable I absolutely cannot stand, raw or cooked. This week, I made yellow split pea and ham, last week's was good old-fashion Scottish tattie soup and the week before was lentil. I make them in my Ninja Foodi then blitz with my hand blender if I want a smoother consistency - but they would work just as well in a soup maker.
Sweet potato and butternut squash make lovely soup too - especially if you add a can of coconut milk (and a wee bit chili if you want some heat).

I had a wonderful cauliflower soup in Brittany- they grow a lot of caulis- and think my soupmaker replicates it. Frozen pieces of cauliflower about 500g and chopped white onion, plus a chopped potato, veg stock cube and water, cooked. Then skimmed milk powder blended in (milk tends to burn if cooked I learned..). Filling but I hope not high calorie.

Soups go so well with cold days. Well any day in my view ?

Calistemon

Celery makes me itch! I have to avoid it.

are you allergic to it? a lot of people are apparently

If no lardons, some scraps of ham.

Witzend

I make a lot of ‘random’ veg soups, but they always have to include celery, for flavour. Ditto parsley if I have any, but there’s usually some in the freezer.

I was about to say the same re celery. It really does make a difference to soup

Minted pea soup - about 500g of cheapo frozen peas, an onion and a small potato, roughly chopped, a good handful of mint leaves, three or four teaspoons of Marigold bouillon powder and water up to the max mark. Cook on smooth setting and serve with croutons and some fried lardons.

I won’t offer you celery soup the Callistemon, but we love it. Celery, potatoes milk, chicken or veg stock cube, 20mins in the soup maker and enough for 2 -3 meals. Leek and potato is another favourite and so easy to make.
I’ll try mushroom soup now GSM. Thanks for the reminder.

Yes, those of us wot shop at Tesco don’t like furrin muck.

Aveline

M&S have bags of 'sofrito' - ready diced onion, celery and carrots. I buy a bag when they're reduced in price. Ideal base for any soup. Usually I just add some lentils and stock cube. Hot, tasty, cheap and quick.

Tesco have it too, but they call it something different - I think "chef's base" (for those whose kitchen vocabulary doesn't run to furrin words)

Really Calistemon? what a strange thing. I like the crunchiness.

I shall remember not to add it when you come round Calistemon.

Celery makes me itch! I have to avoid it.

M&S have bags of 'sofrito' - ready diced onion, celery and carrots. I buy a bag when they're reduced in price. Ideal base for any soup. Usually I just add some lentils and stock cube. Hot, tasty, cheap and quick.

Ooooh celery for flavour! Would never have thought of that - didn't really think celery was very flavourful, but will get some this week. Thank you all for replying - I know it's easy to google recipes, but I always like recommendations from the grans - and you have not let me down, so thank you all

I bought a bag of casserole vegetables added a couple of cloves of garlic a vegetable stock cube and black pepper. It was beautiful. I also love mushroom soup with the big flat mushrooms, just add red onion, garlic and vegetable stock, little milk at the end.
Squash, carrot and sweet potatoes, stock, onion and garlic with a couple of red chili's, very tasty.

Perhaps yours is better than mine!

Onions tend to give me wind indigestion, Aveline but well cooked ones aren't so bad.

Gosh Callistemon I just chuck the onions straight it.

Just to say that I always cook the chopped onions a bit first - either fry gently in some oil or in stock in the microwave.

Everything seems to cook well in the soup maker apart from onions.

I sometimes add some preserved garlic or ginger to spice up whatever odds and ends I've put in the soup maker. I do like to include celery too. Mushrooms make lovely soup. I vary between smooth and chunky.

I found any of my soup recipes worked just as well in a soup maker as a saucepan, although you had to be precise in measuring the totallevel of i gredients and fluidsin a soup maker.

There are many soup recipes online.

I was given a soupmaker just before lockdown. used it about half a dozen times then, in lock down, the element went and as the shop I got it from was shut, I couldn't take it back for several months, so I put it to the back of a cupboard and completely forgot about it, until tidying the cupboard this year, whenIi simply recycled it. At th end of the day, a big saucepan and liquidizer was just as easy and less pernickety.

My favourite is mushroom soup - mushrooms obvs, onion, chicken stock, milk. Dead easy and even tastier if you include a few soaked dried porcini.

I make a lot of ‘random’ veg soups, but they always have to include celery, for flavour. Ditto parsley if I have any, but there’s usually some in the freezer.