soup maker recipes

I don't use a soup-maker, just a big stockpot but one of my favourites is an easypeasy lentil and bacon soup.

400g red lentils
1 chopped onion
2 cloves garlic
250g bacon lardons - dry cured bacon if possible.
Vegetable or chicken stock
Ground pepper to taste.

When it's cooked, I whiz it smooth in the blender. Any excess freezes well. Smakelijk!

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Gosh Callistemon I just chuck the onions straight it.

Perhaps yours is better than mine!

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

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.

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

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.

Celery makes me itch! I have to avoid it.

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

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

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)

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

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.

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.

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

If no lardons, some scraps of ham.

Calistemon

Celery makes me itch! I have to avoid it.

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

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 ?

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