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The Souper Soup Thread [Merged]

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Chorizo is against my diet man as is cream. You're killing me here.


    (I am totally making this and soon)



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,618 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Pepper and tomato soup is not much to look at but tasty and a good lunch with some brown bread. More of the same today!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Not going to post every recipe (Give em a Google) but this is every recipe I have saved in my "soup" folder.

    Have made pretty much all of them and all good. Bad ones got deleted.




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Did the garlic broth turn out well? @The Nal

    I think I might use chicken stock, the recipe seems very minimal...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    I think I did it once when they missus was sick and used stock yeah. Likely added some chili, paprika, maybe some seseme seeds on top.



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,721 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    I've been making lots of minestone type soup so far. This week's has courgette, carrot, onion and a small bit of potato, and a base with just a tin of tomatoes & stock. For pasta I use orzo or whatever small shape I have in the press, and have also used giant cous cous as well in the past! It's just semolina so works great.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    Anyone got a recipe for a good ham soup? I'll take any combinations as well as Pea & Ham or Ham & Lentil. Am getting to the bottom of the freezer in anticipation of 5 lambs and 2 pigs going into it shortly. Have 4 ham hocks left and made a gorgeous terrine out of them before, but think I'll try a soup with two of these. TIA



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭The Nal




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,610 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    My pea and ham soup is just the cooking water from ham and a packet of frozen peas, blitzed up,sometimes with bits of ham.

    (I'll usually put an onion, carrot, stick of celery, a bay leaf and spirig of thyme in with the ham)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    Microwave Veg Soup...

    Chop 1 carrot sweet potato large onion and celery stick .Microwave for 10 minutes with butter salt pepper , stirring halfway

    Cook 6 mushrooms in butter for 10 minutes

    Add water ,knorr chicken stock cube, parsley, cumin and ginger to microwave dish. Microwave for another 10 minutes .

    Pour microwave dish contents into pot, add cooked mushrooms and some tinned sweetcorn

    Blend and mix in cream



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Nice. I wonder if frozen veggies might do for a late night quick soup!

    (I must buy some cream and freeze it, it's not a thing I would usually have at hand).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    Well that was 7.5/10 today

    The sweetcorn was a new addition

    I might check it some frozen peas or chorizo instead for comparison

    I know I used the tinned black beans before in a similar recipe



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Sweetcorn is a nice addition in blended soups for texture and sweetness, I love it.

    Black beans are my favourite.

    I may not even need cream with the corn or beans...? Perhaps a potato or a dash of milk...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 fionamcc


    Old recipe from my family is a ham soup with potatoes.

    I have a soup pot I use, big enough to boil a couple of lobster in. So get a big pot to start with.

    1 onion, diced

    3 carrots, diced

    2 celery stalks, diced

    6-8 potatoes, peeled and quartered

    2-3 ham hocks (depends on how much flavor you want)

    stick of butter

    4 cloves of garlic, minced

    few sprigs of thyme

    pinch of dill

    240 ml heavy cream

    960ml chicken or vegetable broth

    salt and pepper to taste

    Put the butter in the bottom of the pot on medium heat and melt. Add the onions, celery and garlic and fry until onions are translucent. Add the hocks, thyme, dill and broth and cook over med/low heat for 3 hours. Add the potatoes and carrots and let cook until potatoes are fork tender. Remove the hocks, take a masher and mash the vegetables in the pot. You'll have some chunks, but you don't want it completely pureed. Take the meat off the bones and chop and add it back to the soup. Add in pinch of dill and remove the stems of the of thyme. Add the cream, heat through, salt and pepper to taste and serve with some good hunks of bread to dip in. I like sprinkling with a little parmesan cheese, but don't tell my grandmother.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Spicy lentil soup from the freezer. Might have gone overboard on the garnish, I admit.





  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    I'm making this Chicken and corn soup. I used Del Monte creamed corn, but added some very unauthentic fish sauce for umami.

    I can never get the hang of the egg drop technique *; the beaten egg just dissolves into the soup :/ still tasty though, if not photogenic enough to post a photo.

    • Any pointers on the egg drop? Was my soup not hot enough perhaps?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,610 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    No experience of it but my first thought, as reading it was that the soup isn't hot enough or the stream isn't thin enough.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 557 Mod ✭✭✭✭TheKBizzle


    I usually thicken the soup with potato starch after bringing it to the boil. When it’s nice and thick drop in the beaten egg and leave it for a few seconds. The thickness of the soup should create the ribbons of egg you want.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,523 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Ditto, but I usually sweat off a potato and small onion before adding the peas and stock.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Roasted pepper and tomato soup. Forgot to put basil into it while cooking, muppet. Still pretty tasty, hard to go wrong with a tomato soup to be fair.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,414 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Made this one from Donal Skehan the other day - delicious and I think better than the one I usually make from Jamie Oliver, but that one is leek and potato rather than just vegetable.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Cream of broccoli, cauliflower and pea soup. Not as green as I'd have liked, but then I hadn't as many peas to add after cooking/before blending as I'd have liked. Plus, cream I suppose.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Made a version of this, but with sweet potato instead of carrot, and added corn and processed peas*. Simple but lovely.

    https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/super-lentil-and-vegetable-soup.html

    (* what even are processed peas anyway? 🧐)



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Making a part blended soup, based on this recipe below, but I added brown lentils, and subbed the basil with parsley. A squirt of M&S lemon juice too, with a healthy dose of white pepper.


    https://chezlerevefrancais.com/carrot-and-courgette-soup/#recipe



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Making a version of this miso sweet potato and carrot soup that also includes celery, and a little less sweet potato perhaps; I didn't weigh everything. C'est la vie when it comes to soups.

    I added some dried seaweed, which I'll remove before blending, and will use a simple seed mix for the topping, with lime juice.

    I lashed a fair bit of ginger in there, and I can smell it while it's simmering. 😋

    EDIT: I used Biona creamed coconut in this, and it is the job!

    Post edited by igCorcaigh on


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Tomato soup.

    I omitted the cream from this recipe but added some day old baguette before blending. The end result was tasty, but a bit orange/pink and not tomatoey enough, so I added some tomato puree at the end.

    Very nice!

    https://iamhomesteader.com/air-fryer-roasted-tomato-soup/#wprm-recipe-container-102441



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    My second time making this sweet potato and carrot miso soup.

    It's delicious on its own, but the miso rounds it off. So tasty and healthy.

    Whenever you find a tomato sauce or a soup lacks that "something"... it's miso. That's what's lacking. Magical stuff!

    Post edited by igCorcaigh on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Carrot, coriander, ginger soup. Bunch of carrots to use up. Had it in the vitamix for longer than I normally do; result was seriously smooth, coconut milk and a potato or two probably helped.

    Seriously tasty. Going to have to figure out what I did differently to make it so nice.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    So, I made this very basic, but very tasty soup.

    A simple but genius recipe… lentils, onion, bacon. All of the things I love, but never thought that bacon could be souped!

    It's so good, but not very photogenic, so no photos.

    It's beige, but tasty.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,735 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Sound delicious - but I'm surprised there's no stock - I just can't imagine soup without stock!

    If you think bacon can't be souped, try Neven Maguire's celeriac and bacon soup some time!



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    That soup sounds lovely… I have never cooked celeriac before, had a celeriac mash once in a restaurant, I do remember liking it!

    And yeah, no stock! It didn't need it tbh, such a simple but tasty soup.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,139 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    That sounds tasty. I might try to make a pot of potato soup over the weekend. I don't have any broth, hope it turns out ok.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Tell me this; I hate celery but a lot of soups have it as an ingredient. Do I really need it or is it just a part of Big Celery's marketing strategy?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Celery is the devils business.

    You never need celery in anything ever



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Mirepoix is the trinity of aromatics: celery, onion and carrot. Used as the basis for many dishes, but feel free to leave the celery out if you prefer.

    Unless it's celery soup of course, which I might make soon.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,735 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I can't stand raw celery, but it definitely adds a depth of flavour to soups and stews, so I always add one or two sticks of it to the veggies I sweat down.

    In order not to waste the rest of the head, I've chopped up and frozen 2-stick portions of it - it turns to half mush when you defrost it, but that doesn't matter when it's only going into soups or stews.

    I never, ever make soup without onion, celery sweated, and a heel of parmesan while it's cooking - everything else is optional!

    Post edited by HeidiHeidi on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,610 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Another one here who dislikes celery but always uses it in soups and stews - cut up pretty small. I also cut it up and freeze it to use a handful whenever needed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    I like this plan. Celery only seems to come in huge bags of 7 or 8 stalks. If I was going to use it I'd be just wasting the rest so freezing it is a great idea. I'll try it in the next soup I make and see how it goes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,735 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    It's a bit of a faff, but it's so handy just to have the little packs of celery there to dump into the soup.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Also not a great celery fan here. I do add it to the base of soups and stews though and it adds a lovely savoury depth. I would never eat it raw.



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    One of those bags of prepped veggies from Tesco (brocolli, cauliflower, carrots) (handy when you're cooking for one) with a small can of corn, made into a blended soup with veg stock, lots of white pepper and sesame oil.

    Very nice and warming! 😋



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,139 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    I am making a pot of pea soup with dry split peas. I have never made this before and I don't have the right ingredients for it to turn out well (according to youtube recipe vids). I am just hoping it turns out remotely edible. Wish me luck.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Sounds good. Green split peas? Are you adding ham stock or keeping it vegetarian?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,139 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    yup an old bag of dry green split peas. Didn't have any stock just water and small bits of cooked ham, carrots and onion. I added a bay leaf hoping it would add some flavor, but no…. the soup turned out unexpectedly mealy and dry, no matter how much water was added…. I really can't cook.

    Post edited by Deja Boo on


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Yes, split peas do have that mealy texture that absorbs so much water. But they have quite a unique taste! I like them.

    Things like smoked sausage or frankfurters will add flavour. Croutons and a swirl of olive oil should be nice toppings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,139 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Thanks for your suggestions, igCorcaigh - I will have to try that!

    …because the mess I made is pretty disgusting, I must admit.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Tomato and red pepper soup.

    Air fried the veg with red onion, and then blended with stock and a few red lentils.

    Surpringly good for random food, plenty of oil used!

    Post edited by igCorcaigh on


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