Roast Parsnip Soup

This is another roast vegetable soup recipe called roast parsnip soup. I made this at the same time as cooking a casserole.

Peel and slice the parsnips, I had about 6 large and place into an oiled roasting tin

Peel and dice 5 garlic cloves and add to the parsnips.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper and olive oil.

Toss these around with a spoon so all the vegetables have oil on.

Roast in an oven on a medium heat until they are soft, about 1 hour.

Blend all the parsnips in a blender with the addition of Vegetable stock.

Put into a pan.

Dilute with stock or milk or some cream or a combination of these, after it is all blended to the desired consistency

Taste and add salt and black ground pepper.

Variations
I fried 4 garlic cloves in olive oil with 4 teaspoons of curry powder and added this to the soup for Roast Parsnip soup Recipe with curry flavouring.

Enjoy

Has anyone roasted any other vegetables for soup?

Crazycupcakes

Roasted Tomato Soup

This soup recipe for roasted tomato soup is so easy. I took about 24 large tomatoes. Cut them into 1/4s and placed in a roasting tray.
I peeled about 6 cloves of garlic and then cut then fine and sprinkled on top of the tomatoes.
I sprinkled with salt and black pepper.
I sprinkled some olive oil over about 2 tablespoons and tossed the tomatoes so that they all got covered with oil.
I placed them in a medium oven, at the top to roast for about 30 minutes until the tomatoes are soft.
If you are cooking a casserole do the tomatoes at the same time.
Remove from the oven.


The roasted tomatoes.
I put all the tomatoes in a blender and added some stock made from Swiss Bouillon. It was about 2 pints.
The tomatoes from the blender can be left rustic with skin and seeds or you can sieve them out. I kept them in as below.

I added some milk to thin the soup. Single or double cream can be added to make a richer soup.
This soup is delicious in flavour. The roasted tomatoes have such a different flavour . The roasting makes the flavour so intense.
It made about 9 soup portions.
The next one I am going to try is roasted Parsnip soup .
Thanks for reading
Crazycupcakes

Mushroom and Celery Soup

It has been really cold in the UK so making soup has become a priority.

I make a pan full which makes about 8 good sized portions.

I had a question recently about how many portions my recipes make.

It is not easy to answer that but I will try.

I usually make soup for lunches so they are really a meal in themselves and a large portion, so usually 8. This may be the equivalent of 12 to 14 small portions to serve as a meal starter.

The soups can always be made thinner in consistency by adding more stock or water. This may then increase the portions. All my recipes freeze so stock up the freezer in portions ready to reheat in the microwave.

This is my latest recipe for Mushroom and Celery Soup

Ingredients

2 large potatoes peeled and diced

1 bunch of celery, sliced

2 cups of chopped mushrooms about 24 ( more will add more flavour)

1 onion peeled and fine diced

3 cloves of garlic peeled and fine diced

1 leek sliced fine

olive oil for frying

salt and pepper

2 to 3 teaspoons of Swiss bouillon stock or another type of vegetable stock cube or fresh vegetable stock with 2 pints of water

Method

1. Heat the olive oil on a low to medium heat in a large pan.

2. Cook the garlic and onions for 5 minutes do not heat too high , let the vegetables sweat.

3. Add the leek and potatoes cook for 5 mins

4. Add the mushrooms and cook for 5 mins.

5. Add the celery and cook for 5 mins.

6. Add stock to cover, about 2 pints.

7. Cook until soft about 15 mins.

8. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

9. Blend all the soup. I use a Dualit blender for this.

10. Serve

Variations

1. Add about 1/2 pint of double cream for Cream of Mushroom and Celery Soup recipe

2. Garnish with grated apple, celery leaves, grated cheese, natural yogurt.

3. Cut stale bread into cubes and fry in olive oil, season and garish the Mushroom and Celery Soup with these croutons.

4. Add crispy bacon as a garnish or add some chopped bacon at the start to the recipe.

Hope you enjoy this recipe. Please let me know if you make it and create any of your own variations.

Do you like casserole go to this link for my latest casserole

BEEF CASSEROLE WITH GUINESS AND HORSERADISH SAUCE

Thanks for reading

Crazycupcakes