Soup ideas (and a recipe)
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I *like* soup, and below is one I made tonight.... but suggestions of how to augment / change / completely b
dise would be appreciated.
Everything from Tesco... and this has made 9 x 500ml portions for the freezer(!) so it's a good thing it's tasty.
pack of celery x 2 @ 0.68
'finest' chorizo ring 250g @ 2.49
onion @ 0.30
Yorkshire carrots 1kg @ 0.78
(dried) red split lentils 500g @ 0.84
vege stock x 3 litres
couple of bits of garlic
blob of olive oil
Total of about £6. Ish. So I'd say about 60p a portion. How much is a tin of Heinz these days!?
Usual soupy approach... chop the onion, celery and carrots, and sweat them in the pan for a while with a bit of olive oil. When they're softening nicely, add the crushed garlic and the diced chorizo. Carry on sweating, maybe add a bit of water to help them along. After, ooh, 20 minutes add 3 litres of vege stock and the bag of lentils. Give it a stir and bring to the simmer. This is a smooth soup so after, say, another 20 minutes (or until the lentils have fully swollen) throw it in a blender and give it a blitz. And enjoy!
But what would *you* change?
I *like* soup, and below is one I made tonight.... but suggestions of how to augment / change / completely b
dise would be appreciated.Everything from Tesco... and this has made 9 x 500ml portions for the freezer(!) so it's a good thing it's tasty.
pack of celery x 2 @ 0.68
'finest' chorizo ring 250g @ 2.49
onion @ 0.30
Yorkshire carrots 1kg @ 0.78
(dried) red split lentils 500g @ 0.84
vege stock x 3 litres
couple of bits of garlic
blob of olive oil
Total of about £6. Ish. So I'd say about 60p a portion. How much is a tin of Heinz these days!?
Usual soupy approach... chop the onion, celery and carrots, and sweat them in the pan for a while with a bit of olive oil. When they're softening nicely, add the crushed garlic and the diced chorizo. Carry on sweating, maybe add a bit of water to help them along. After, ooh, 20 minutes add 3 litres of vege stock and the bag of lentils. Give it a stir and bring to the simmer. This is a smooth soup so after, say, another 20 minutes (or until the lentils have fully swollen) throw it in a blender and give it a blitz. And enjoy!
But what would *you* change?
bigandclever said:
But what would *you* change?
I'd buy all the veg from my local farm shop thereby reducing the foodmiles by about 10,000 and then add a chicken, some dry cured ham and swap the vege 'stock' for some stock made from the chicken carcass. 
Oh, and I'd serve it with a soft cottage loaf, heavily buttered.
Edited by biglepton on Thursday 31st July 00:36
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