Hey guys I've been using these simple soup recipes for a while now at work and I thought i'd like to share it with some homecooks to pass on some knowledge. These soups are easy, cheap and taste great. I don't know the yield amount because i usually make 10 litres at a time.
Also alot of people at my work complain that these soups are boring and uncreative but believe it or not these soups sell like hotcakes in winter.
Sweet potato and carrot soup
Ingredients
500g Sweet potato
500g Carrot
150g Brown Onion
250ml Cream
1 Sprig Rosemary
40 g Butter
Vegetable stock/chicken stock/ Water (your preference)
Salt and Pepper
Method
1. Peel all vegetables
2. Thinly slice onion/carrots and potato
3 Sweat off onion till translucent in a pot with a tiny bit of butter ,season
4 Add carrot and rosemary in and sweat until semi firm.
5 Add Stock or water and sweet potatoes (make sure it just slightly covers the vegetables if too much liquid it will dilute the flavour)
6 Simmer till vegetables are soft and remove rosemary
7 Puree soup with cream, Finish with butter and adjust seasoning
(Sweating off onions and carrot releases the water and brings out the flavour)
Potato and Leek
Ingredients
500g Royal blue potato (peeled)
500g Leek (discard leaves)
150g Brown onion
25g Cumin seeds
Stock or water
Thyme
Vegetable oil
Salt pepper
40g Butter
250ml Cream
Method
1. Finely cut leek and onion and quarter the potatoes (reduces cooking time by alot)
Add oil inside pot heat until oil runs freely add cummin seeds and fry off for 20 seconds, add leek and onion
2. Fry till translucent, season and add thyme
3. Add potatoes with stock/water in the pot slightly covering the vegetables too
4. Simmer till potatoes are soft. remove thyme
5. Puree with cream, finish with butter and seasoning.
Cabbage,lentil and bacon soup
Ingredients
150g Celery(finely diced)
150g Leek(finely diced)
150g Carrot(finely diced)
150g Royal blue Potato (finely diced)
150g brown onion(finely diced
100g streaky bacon
1/4 Green Cabbage (diced)
300g Green Lentils(soak over night)
Chicken stock
Thyme
Salt,pepper
Method
1. Peel all veg, remove leaves off celery/leek cut all into small 1/2 cm dice. Cut cabbage into rough chunks. Rough cut streaky bacon
2. Add oil to pot fry bacon till half cooked. Add all the vegetables in except for potato. Sweat until vegetables go translucent
3. Add Chicken stock and thyme in along with lentils
4. Slowly simmer soup till lentils are cooked.
Also alot of people at my work complain that these soups are boring and uncreative but believe it or not these soups sell like hotcakes in winter.
Sweet potato and carrot soup
Ingredients
500g Sweet potato
500g Carrot
150g Brown Onion
250ml Cream
1 Sprig Rosemary
40 g Butter
Vegetable stock/chicken stock/ Water (your preference)
Salt and Pepper
Method
1. Peel all vegetables
2. Thinly slice onion/carrots and potato
3 Sweat off onion till translucent in a pot with a tiny bit of butter ,season
4 Add carrot and rosemary in and sweat until semi firm.
5 Add Stock or water and sweet potatoes (make sure it just slightly covers the vegetables if too much liquid it will dilute the flavour)
6 Simmer till vegetables are soft and remove rosemary
7 Puree soup with cream, Finish with butter and adjust seasoning
(Sweating off onions and carrot releases the water and brings out the flavour)
Potato and Leek
Ingredients
500g Royal blue potato (peeled)
500g Leek (discard leaves)
150g Brown onion
25g Cumin seeds
Stock or water
Thyme
Vegetable oil
Salt pepper
40g Butter
250ml Cream
Method
1. Finely cut leek and onion and quarter the potatoes (reduces cooking time by alot)
Add oil inside pot heat until oil runs freely add cummin seeds and fry off for 20 seconds, add leek and onion
2. Fry till translucent, season and add thyme
3. Add potatoes with stock/water in the pot slightly covering the vegetables too
4. Simmer till potatoes are soft. remove thyme
5. Puree with cream, finish with butter and seasoning.
Cabbage,lentil and bacon soup
Ingredients
150g Celery(finely diced)
150g Leek(finely diced)
150g Carrot(finely diced)
150g Royal blue Potato (finely diced)
150g brown onion(finely diced
100g streaky bacon
1/4 Green Cabbage (diced)
300g Green Lentils(soak over night)
Chicken stock
Thyme
Salt,pepper
Method
1. Peel all veg, remove leaves off celery/leek cut all into small 1/2 cm dice. Cut cabbage into rough chunks. Rough cut streaky bacon
2. Add oil to pot fry bacon till half cooked. Add all the vegetables in except for potato. Sweat until vegetables go translucent
3. Add Chicken stock and thyme in along with lentils
4. Slowly simmer soup till lentils are cooked.
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