Curried Parsnip Soup from the cupboard

A healthy & warming lightly curried soup. Served here with blanched Kalettes, toasted Pumpkin & Cauliflower seeds.All ingredients used are 💯 plant based 🌱

I’d convinced myself that there was nothing in the house for lunch today ahead of our grocery order arriving later, but after looking a little deeper into the fridge, i came up with this quick and easy vegetable soup. Taking the odds and ends of leftover vegetables (e.g. off cuts of squash, broccoli including the stalks, a few unpeeled and slightly sad looking carrots etc), and combining them with some stock and curry spice, this delicious and warming bowl of goodness is guaranteed to help you to hit your 5-a-day. Plus, it’s a great way to avoid waste. I’ve listed everything I added below but you really could add absolutely any veg. #cookeverypart #lunch

🥣 I typed in the search bar “leek sweet potato” to get some ideas on how I can use them up together, and I found a few soup recipes that sounded really good and are different than the regular leek and potato soup. This is the one that inspired me the most https://cookpad.wasmer.app/uk/recipes/7442850 by @cook_14031773#soupoftheday #seasonsupply #winterwarmersoup

Melted some Grated Cheese in this soup and it was really amazing so happy with it. All the spices and coriander its lovely. Mild and tasty. I had the idea from a friend who makes chicken curry and adds cheese to it. I don't think I liked that but in a soup without the chicken could be lovely and it really is. #Lunch #Starter

This version is from December 2016 after our Christmas party. Sunday hangover required a full-bodied soup

It hasn't stopped raining for days and I've gone back into slight hibernation mode (even though it's July!). So, I needed some soup and only had boring tins left. Consequently, I had to use up what we'd got left in the (almost empty) cupboards as my shopping delivery wasn't due until later that evening. I sense my life has begun to revolve around food so much more since lockdown!#MyCookbook

Creamy Broccoli Soup that is made with Milk can be curry flavoured. If you have never made a soup with Curry Powder and Milk, you should try it. It is absolutely delicious. There are some methods to make the soup thick and creamy. You can add Flour, Corn Starch OR Oats. Today I added a Potato, and that is the simplest method. Enjoy the soup with nice crusty Bread. For the photo, I added some pieces of toasted Bread.

This is litrally a 10 minute soup if you buy pre-boiled beets! Red Thai curry paste is great in this recipe as it contains garlic, lemongrass, lime leaf and coriander, very citrussy ingredients which work well with beetroot.

This type of dish is called ‘Shiru-kake Gohan’. ‘Shiru-kake Gohan’ is something that most ordinary Japanese people enjoy to eat, but you will never see at any Japanese restaurants or eateries in the world. It is ‘cooked rice covered with soup’.You know cooked rice and soup are the main food for Japanese style meal. We sometimes pour the soup over the rice and eat together. ‘Miso Soups’ and soy sauce flavoured ‘Clear Soups’ are all good, but this ‘Curry Flavoured Pork Soup on Rice’ is something that should be eaten this way!

This is a soup that is super easy to prepare, yet the flavour is a complex. It has curry flavour, and it is fruity, spicy, salty, and you can make it sour, too. Today I added leftover Dumpling Wrappers, but you can add Noodles instead. OR you can make the flavour stronger and pour it over freshly cooked Rice.

A different kind of soup in a very nice way , should make this soup more often than I do . It is so tasty . The Recipe came from a small book that I have on the subject of Soups - a book I had bought Online from Amazon Prime

This is a very filling soup because there is a lot of Cabbage in it. I added thinly sliced Pork and Corn Kernels today. You may wish to add more Vegetables OR Mushrooms. For me, this can be a meal as it is, but you can add some Rice OR Noodles. The soup doesn’t look great, but it is a comforting soup.

This is one of the soups that I was cooking for my husband when he was eating a low-calorie soup every day for health reasons. I use no starchy vegetables, but you may wish to add Potato, which is surprisingly low in calories. I recommend to add a few drops Sesame Oil for flavour and health benefits, but I don’t use Oil to cook ingredients. This soup is healthy, and so comforting, filling, nutritious and delicious.

The basic method to make a miso soup is you cook ingredients in Dashi Stock, then season with Miso. Oil is not used. This Seafood Miso Soup is cooked in that way. I added a small amount of Asian Curry Powder as Curry and Miso are a good match. You can pour this yummy soup over freshly cooked rice. That’s the way I like to eat this soup.

I initially created this soup to use up some leftover rice. I enjoyed it so much that I made it again a few days later.

I have leftover red curry left so I baked half of butternut squash and add some cauliflower and cabbage end bits in then blend everything together.#soup#lunchidea

A laksa-like spicy red curry soup that is perfect for colder days. Garnished generously with bean sprouts and fried shallots and red chilli's. Freeze or store in the fridge for up to 3 days (store noodles and soup separately). Add an extra can of coconut milk for a less spicy soup.

‘Twas a cold, wet day with only a few spare vegetables in larder so this was made in the soupmaker in minutes, a drastically cutdown version of one of my regular soups. Adjust curry powder to suit your palate. #WasteNotWantNot

I’m happy to pay for good ingredients but hate wasting food, so I make a lot of soups from leftovers. This soup uses “uncooked leftovers”, i.e. veg that weren’t needed for Christmas dinner. It’s a creamy, smooth soup, the consistency of which can be adjusted to personal preference by varying the amount of stock used or, indeed, the quantity of veg. The veg could, of course, be specially bought in - or for that matter home-grown.#WastenotWantnot

Another quick and easy but nourishing soup using ingredients found in most kitchens. The crème fraîche is a bonus. Sometimes I add a chopped stick of celery, if to hand. This is a simple recipe with ample scope to improvise!

Another simple, tasty and nourishing soup. Good use of leftover unused vegetables if you have them. Most of my soups are prompted by what I’ve got to hand on a busy morning!I haven’t added it on this occasion but a garnish of fresh coriander goes well with this dish.

Just a few minutes prepping and the machine takes over! Simple but full of flavour-rich goodness. Note that the inclusion of tomatoes influences the soup’s colour!

Another damp day, so a light soup was requested for lunch. Most of my soups are “substantial” but this is deliberately not so. The herbs can be varied to suit personal preference.

Gluten and Dairy Free

This was a way of using up some leftover Rough & Ready Ratatouille (See my recipe). Ready-made ratatouille, fresh or tinned, would be fine but with homemade you know the ingredients. Like curries, a hot soup can be quite refreshing in the summer. #mycookbook.

I come across this idea while reading through a monthly magazine and loved the idea of it, so I did my own version of it.

The large number of parsnips in this soup give the creamy texture without adding dairy. The roasting is important.We ‘invented’ this soup in March 2020 due to a general shortage of potatoes at the super market and a general need to be inventive with our vegetables.You can mix and match the vegetables a bit depending on what you have. Makes 2.5 litres...!