If you love soup you’ll enjoy trying these amazing soup recipes

I’ve never really enjoyed soups and enjoyed making them even less. I’m not sure I every made a soup from scratch. The closest I probably ever came to making a soup is adding a few vegetables and pieces of meat to a packet of Korean noodles. However, this past fall I was forced to eat a softer diet of food. There was dental work that was dragging on throughout the fall which meant chewing was not very comfortable. I started by buying soups and it was ok, but I find canned soups very salty. It also started getting expensive. Eventually decided I would try and make my own soup. I started with a few recipes which included a mushroom soup, a potato soup, leek soup, celery soup, a carrot soup, even a white bean soup. Every soup I tried making was a creamed soup. Eventually, I found the confidence to make my own cream soup creations. Below are some of the soups and their ingredients that I tried. I have made many other combinations since and continue to each week. The directions below are a guideline and will need to be modified depending on the ingredients.

Below are some of the soup recipes I have tried to make. Some are from recipes, some are my own creations.  

Basic Soup Recipe

Ingredients

• 1.5 onions, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 inch ginger, grated
• 1 shallot, chopped
• ~ 4.5c soup broth, vegetable
• ~ 2c mashed potatoes
• ~ 1c coconut milk
• 2 tsp pepper

Directions

1. Chop onion and garlic.
2. Grate ginger.
3. Heat a large soup pan and add some olive oil to the heated pan and heat.
4. Once olive oil is heated, add in chopped onions, garlic and grated ginger.
5. Fry until golden brown.
6. If there is potato or sweet potato in the ingredients, add those to the pan first. Fry quickly then add in soup broth and cook until potatoes are soft.
7. Once the potatoes are soft, add in other vegetables and continue cooking until all the vegetables are mushy.
8. Add in spices.
9. Once all vegetables are soft, use a potato masher to mash the vegetables and potatoes and much as possible.
10. Remove pan from the heat and let cool a bit.
11. Once cooled off, take a stick blender (immersion blender) and blend soup until creamy.
12. If there is any dairy in the recipe, milk, cream, cheese, add these ingredients into the soup, stirring. Once combined, blend soup more until thick and creamy.
13. Let soup sit and cool at room temperature a bit until it’s easier to handle. Then dish soup into containers for storage.
14. Soup can be frozen or kept in the fridge and eaten throughout the week.
15. Excellent for meal prep.

Soup Variations

Brussel Sprouts Soup

• 1.5 onions, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 inch ginger, grated
• 1 shallot, chopped
• 1 package frozen brussel sprouts
• ~ 4.5c soup broth (vegetable)
• ~ 1c mashed potatoes
• ~ 1c 10% cream (or milk, or coconut milk)
• 2 tsp pepper

Lentil Pea Soup

• 1.5 onions, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 inch ginger, grated
• 1 shallot, chopped
• ~ 4.5c soup broth (vegetable)
• 1 c cooked lentils to mush
• ½ package frozen peas
• 2 tsp pepper
• ½ c 10% cream (optional)

Tomato Soup

• 1.5 onions, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 inch ginger, grated shallot, chopped
• 2 tsp pepper
• 1 sweet potato chopped
• 4 tomatoes, chopped
• 1 can tomato paste
• 1c 10% cream
• 1 handful parsley

Vegetable Soup

• 1 sweet potato, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 inch ginger, grated
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 shallot, chopped
• 1 bag (~ 750g) mixed frozen vegetables
• 4-6c soup broth (vegetable)
• 1c milk
• Hot sauce to taste.

Spaghetti Squash Soup

• 1 spaghetti squash chopped
• 1 potato, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 inch ginger, grated
• ½ c coconut milk
• 1 c grated cheese
• 4-5c soup broth (vegetable)
• Spices to taste (eg ground ginger, garlic, chilli, pepper etc.)

Blueberry soup

• 2c blueberries
• 1c water
• ¼ c sugar
• 2c yogurt, plain
• Cinnamon, to taste.

Green Soup

• 1 big bunch kale
• 1 bunch spinach ends
• 1 potato, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3-4 cloves, garlic, chopped
• 1 inch ginger, grated
• 3-4.5c soup broth (vegetable)
• 1c milk
• Green onions
• Spices (eg ground garlic, ginger, chilli powder, pepper, etc.)
• Left over frozen mixed vegetables (optional)

Sweet potato soup

• 2 sweet potatoes, chopped
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 inch ginger, grated
• 3-4.5c soup broth (vegetable)
• 1c coconut milk
• ~1 tsp – 1 tbsp hot sauce
• Spices (e.g. ground ginger, garlic, pepper, chili powder)
• Parsley
• Green onions

Above are just of the soup recipes I have created over the past couple years during Covid.