Soup season!

[ecodork]

One of my favorite things about fall is that it's soup season. Here's a recipe for one that we really enjoy. Just had it tonight!

Red Lentil & Coconut Soup (from Vegetarian by Nicola Graimes)

Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons sunflower oil
2 red onions, finely chopped
1 chile, seeded and finely sliced
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1-inch piece fresh lemongrass, peeled and sliced
1 cup red lentils, rinsed
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon paprika
1 and 2/3 cup coconut milk
3 and 3/4 cups water
juice of 1 lime
3 scallions, chopped
scant 1 cup cilantro, finely chopped
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a large, deep frying pan. Add the onions, chile, garlic, and lemongrass and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until the onions have softened.

2. Add the lentils, ground coriander and paprika. Pour in the coconut milk and water and stir well to mix. Bring to a boil, stir, then reduce the heat and simmer for 40-45 minutes or until the lentils are soft and tender.

3. Pour in the lime juice and add the scallions and cilantro, reserving a little of each for the garnish. Season the soup to taste, then ladle into warm bowls. Garnish twith the reserved scallions and cilantro and serve immediately.

[triciaflower]

I ADORE soup!!!

This weekend I made loaded potato soup. I don't really have a recipe because I made it up on the fly based on other recipes.

Basically it had lots of bacon and onion, a roux ( I like THICK) potato soup, not soupy and watery, Half& half, potatoes, bay leaf, salt and lots of pepper. Low simmer so as not to scald the milk and to make it thicken up while cooking the potatoes. It took about 45 minutes to cook all those potatoes. Then I added a giant handful of grated sharp cheddar. Garnished it in my bowl with with sour cream, more cheese, and green onions.

Not one bit healthy, but delicious as hell.

[diablita]

Tricia, did you make the roux with something other than flour?

[debbatx]

I want loaded potato soup SO badly now. SO. BADLY. That sounds amazing, tricia, but I'd have no idea where to start, LOL.

I need to start making soups on the weekend and bringing some for lunch.

[triciaflower]

No. I used regular flour.   

I made a roux of a stick of butter and about 7 tbl of flour. The proportion should have been 8tbl. But since the potatoes have some thickening power, I dialed it back a bit. I let that cook a bit while I sauteed the onions and bacon in another pan.

After that I added about 6-7 cups of a mixture of milk, half and half, and vegetable stock. Let it come up to temp and let it barely almost come up to a boil. It'll thicken quite a bit. If it's too thick, you can add more liquid of your choice.

Then I added the onion mixture and about 3 pounds of potatoes, peeled and cut up. Low simmer until potatoes are cooked. I turned off the fire, and added about 1/2 lb grated sharp cheddar. Stir. Ladel into bowls and garnish with MORE cheese, sour cream, and green onion.

I think it would have been way better had I added a few cloves of garlic to the onion and bacon.

[Run Amok]

Hey, Bonita, how would you feel about doing a perpetual soup thread? I love our soup threads but I have such a hard time remembering which soup was in which thread... and I end up sharing the same soups recipes a lot. 

I made black bean soup on sunday. I still need to package it and freeze it but my veg needed cooking so I bought myself a few days.

[debbatx]

OMG, a stick of butter???  Thanks!!

[Ice Cream]

OMG, a stick of butter???  Thanks!!

I was thinking the same thing...

[triciaflower]

It made a hell of a lot of soup! And it was very rich, so a little serving goes a long way. OMG soo gooood.

[Cool Foot Luke]

One of my favorite things about fall is that it's soup season. Here's a recipe for one that we really enjoy. Just had it tonight!

Red Lentil & Coconut Soup (from Vegetarian by Nicola Graimes)

Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons sunflower oil
2 red onions, finely chopped
1 chile, seeded and finely sliced
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1-inch piece fresh lemongrass, peeled and sliced
1 cup red lentils, rinsed
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon paprika
1 and 2/3 cup coconut milk
3 and 3/4 cups water
juice of 1 lime
3 scallions, chopped
scant 1 cup cilantro, finely chopped
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a large, deep frying pan. Add the onions, chile, garlic, and lemongrass and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until the onions have softened.

2. Add the lentils, ground coriander and paprika. Pour in the coconut milk and water and stir well to mix. Bring to a boil, stir, then reduce the heat and simmer for 40-45 minutes or until the lentils are soft and tender.

3. Pour in the lime juice and add the scallions and cilantro, reserving a little of each for the garnish. Season the soup to taste, then ladle into warm bowls. Garnish twith the reserved scallions and cilantro and serve immediately.

Oh, I have to try this!

I made a dish in France sometimes that I called Coconut Green Tea lentils, where I cooked the lentils in green tea instead of water and added coconut. It tasted really good when I cooked it at home, but once I tried to serve it to other people back in the US, it just didn't turn out at all. Totally fell flat.

[triciaflower]

I made chicken and rice soup yesterday. Very simple. I simmered the HELL out of a some chicken breast bones I had in the freezer along with onion, carrots and celery tops, salt and various dried herbs, and a couple of thighs. I had meant to take pull the meat off those once they were cooked, but I forgot about them! oops.

In another pot, I sauteed some green onion, celery and carrots, added the stock I had made. Ripped apart the thighs and added some bbq breat meat I had in the fridge. Let it simmer until the carrots were soft enough, then I added some cold rice I had in the fridge. (we almost always have rice in the fridge!) Heat it through and added chopped fresh parsley.  Boom. Done!

So comforting.

[LilyLily]

Pasta E Fagioli

About a cup of diced pancetta
2 cloves minced garlic
1 stalks of diced celery
2 diced carrots
1 small diced onion
2 TBS olive oil
3 cans cannellini beans (drained and rinsed)
2 large cans of crushed tomatoes
about 10 cups of chicken broth
5 sage leaves
2 stems of chopped rosemary
Smallish pasta - one box
Kosher Salt and Pepper to tasts

Saute the pancetta, veggies and garlic in the olive oil until tender.  Add the beans, tomatoes, chicken broth and herbs.  Simmer for a while....Cook pasta separately.  Once Al Dente, add to everything else.  Taste for seasoning. 

YUM!!!!!  Next time, I may add Kale.

[Run Amok]

This thread has some of my very favorite soup recipes in it. The "very green" soup vpot(?) posted last year was new to me but will be in the rotation this year. I'll be making the tomato barley one I list nex, I think. That one was really good and very simple.

http://chrunners.net/forum/index.php?topic=65334.0

[redkitty]

Debba,

Here is a potato soup from Pillsbury that looks super easy to make. I have not tried it yet, but plan on it soon. (if you can't see the recipe it means you have to sign up...that is free and I do NOT get that much spam from them.)  And the website has lots of other good recipes.

http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/cheesy-potato-soup-cooking-for-two/a97401b7-f9e9-48ea-9bc2-858e78f37b0c/

[Run Amok]

I made two soups this weekend- both turned out great!

The first is super easy tomato/barley.
Sautee 1 onion and as much garlic as you like
add 1 cup of hulled barley, 2- 14.5 oz cans of tomatoes, and 4 cups of stock
Simmer until the barley is cooked through (about 45 minutes)
Salt to taste

This was the other: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Tuscan-Farro-and-Bean-Soup-235425 

[onawhim]

I made this on the weekend: 
I left the veggies in and also added spinach. 
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipe/greek-lemon-and-chicken-soup

[ecodork]

I made this on the weekend: 
I left the veggies in and also added spinach. 
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipe/greek-lemon-and-chicken-soup

I love Avgolemono soup! One of my cookbooks has a vegetarian version. I should make it again.

[diablita]

I love Avgolemono soup! One of my cookbooks has a vegetarian version. I should make it again.

recipe please?

[Newt]

Just made pumpkin and red pepper soup this weekend.

Next on the list is leek and potatoe....one my all time favourites. I always add some strong, blue cheese (stilton being ideal).

[caribougrrl]

Just made pumpkin and red pepper soup this weekend.

Next on the list is leek and potatoe....one my all time favourites. I always add some strong, blue cheese (stilton being ideal).

I can manage some mild blue cheese about once every couple of years... I have a strong aversion to the blue cheese mold smell... there is no way I would be ruining leek and potato soup with it.