Post by kickingfrog on Jan 3, 2012 8:56:36 GMT
Quick & Easy Soups
Posted by Sheona (Drossa) on 2/1/2012
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Many soups can be made quickly and easily:
Lentil (orange lentils + garlic + finely chopped onion [fried in a little oil until softened but not browned] + season to taste). All into a saucepan with water and simmer until lentils are soft. Can be liquidised before serving.
Lentil with Red Peppers - as above, but cook with finely chopped red peppers. Add a little butter just before serving.
Lentil with chilli - as per above and add some chopped chilli.
Carrot and coriander. Roughly chop the carrots and cook in water with a gf stock cube. Liquidise when carrots are soft and add chopped coriander leaves before serving.
Carrot with cumin - as above, but cook with some powdered cumin.
Carrot with garlic & ginger - as above, but add garlic & ginger.
Cauliflower - cook, season, blend. Add some cream to each serving.
Leek and potato - a really easy to make classic. Blend for vichysoise or leave 'lumpy' for a rougher textured soup.
Spinach and green lentil potage (potatoes, garlic, spinach and green lentils with a little olive oil).
Soup made with butternut squash.
Country vegetable soup with a mix of dried peas and beans
Minestrone (just about anything can go into a minestrone: cabbage, lettuce, carrots, peas, beans, onion, celery, tomato, potato)
Meat soups take a little longer but are well worth making. For example:
Chicken Soup
Chicken and vegetable soup
Chicken and chick pea soup
Chicken and lentil soup
Pea and Ham
The vegetable soups will only take about 30 minutes. They can simmer whilst you are making/doing something else.
A pressure cooker is a real time saver for making meat based soups.
Bon Appetit!
Posted by Sheona (Drossa) on 2/1/2012
GF board
Many soups can be made quickly and easily:
Lentil (orange lentils + garlic + finely chopped onion [fried in a little oil until softened but not browned] + season to taste). All into a saucepan with water and simmer until lentils are soft. Can be liquidised before serving.
Lentil with Red Peppers - as above, but cook with finely chopped red peppers. Add a little butter just before serving.
Lentil with chilli - as per above and add some chopped chilli.
Carrot and coriander. Roughly chop the carrots and cook in water with a gf stock cube. Liquidise when carrots are soft and add chopped coriander leaves before serving.
Carrot with cumin - as above, but cook with some powdered cumin.
Carrot with garlic & ginger - as above, but add garlic & ginger.
Cauliflower - cook, season, blend. Add some cream to each serving.
Leek and potato - a really easy to make classic. Blend for vichysoise or leave 'lumpy' for a rougher textured soup.
Spinach and green lentil potage (potatoes, garlic, spinach and green lentils with a little olive oil).
Soup made with butternut squash.
Country vegetable soup with a mix of dried peas and beans
Minestrone (just about anything can go into a minestrone: cabbage, lettuce, carrots, peas, beans, onion, celery, tomato, potato)
Meat soups take a little longer but are well worth making. For example:
Chicken Soup
Chicken and vegetable soup
Chicken and chick pea soup
Chicken and lentil soup
Pea and Ham
The vegetable soups will only take about 30 minutes. They can simmer whilst you are making/doing something else.
A pressure cooker is a real time saver for making meat based soups.
Bon Appetit!