March 24, 2008: Harira

Back inward Oct 2006, nosotros sampled harira for the outset fourth dimension together with savage for its complex flavours together with nourishing beans. We've non been peculiarly inspired to practice novel together with nutritious dinners for a few weeks, hence our bodies needed this equally much equally our sense of savor buds did.

The calendar's recipe is quite like to our previous rendition, but I'll include it anyway. If you've an appetite for to a greater extent than spicy soups, conduct maintain a await at the around recent round-up of the No Croutons Required weblog event, where every entry is a bowl total of punchy vegetarian goodness.

Harira (bean soup)

400g tin terminate chickpeas, drained
400g tin terminate haricot or other beans, drained
800g tin terminate crushed tomatoes
1 onion, chopped
a pinch of saffron threads soaked inward a lilliputian warm water
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon reason coriander
2 tablespoons fresh coriander, chopped
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
500-1000mL H2O or stock
juice of a lemon
1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon harissa or chilli powder
1 tablespoon flour
salt together with pepper

In a large saucepan, combine the beans, tomatoes, onion, saffron amongst water, turmeric, cinnamon, reason coriander together with or hence pepper. Add one-half of the fresh coriander together with parsley. Add plenty H2O or stock to completely encompass the mixture. Bring it to the boil, together with and hence simmer for 10-15 minutes.

Remove a lilliputian of the liquid from the saucepan together with mix the flour into it, together with hence stir the flour dorsum into the soup. Cook the soup for a farther v minutes.

Just earlier serving, stir through the harissa/chilli powder, lemon juice together with flavor to taste. Ladle into bowls together with garnish amongst the remaining herbs.

April 1, 2008: Spicy Cauliflower Soup In Addition To Braised Mushrooms

spicy cauliflower soup too braised lobster mushrooms, provided past times the here.

April 9, 2008: Creamy Cerise Lentil Chowder

I'm actually pushing the soup agenda lately - I guess I've missed it during the warmer months. This lentil chowder was a rich too filling mush, alongside actually potent flavours - a picayune spiciness, approximately tangy vinegar too the earthy lentils. I loved it on the black nosotros made it, but past times the fourth dimension we'd gotten through the leftovers the vinegary-lemon flavours had larn a fighting tiresome. I'm certain the whole parcel would lead maintain been improved if we'd used a delicious homemade stock every bit the recipe recommended, instead of store-bought salty stock. In futurity it mightiness hold out best to snuff it far inwards smaller batches (or for larger crowds).

Creamy blood-red lentil chowder

1 tblsp olive oil
1 pocket-size onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
1 celery rib, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 bay leaf
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp dried basil
1 cinnamon stalk
1 large tomato, diced
1.5 cups blood-red lentils
5 cups of vegetable stock
1 loving cup dry out white wine
170g silken tofu
1 tblsp miso
2 tblsp lemon juice
1 tblsp cider vinegar
Splash of hot sauce
Salt too pepper to taste

In a large pot, rut the stone oil too hence throw inwards the onion, cooking for iii or iv minutes. Add inwards the carrot too celery too laid upward for approximately other few minutes. Once the vegies lead maintain softened, add together the bay leaf, garlic, basil, oregano too cinnamon stick. Saute for approximately other pair of minutes.

Add the tomato plant too laid upward for approximately other infinitesimal or so, stir inwards the lentils, stock too wine. Cover too convey to the boil, hence simmer for xx minutes or so, until the lentils are soft. If you lot tin notice them, lead maintain out the cinnamon stick too the bay leaf.

Put the tofu, miso too two cups of the soup mix inwards a nutrient processor too whiz until good blended. Pour the mush dorsum into the soup pot too stir it all through. Add the lemon juice, vinegar too hot sauce. Season alongside tabular array salt too pepper.

May 20, 2008: Broccoli In Addition To Bluish Vein Soup

effort, where the cheese flavour was a fleck also subtle). The downside of the cheesy flavour was the removal of whatever pretence that this is a especially salubrious soup, inwards fact it sat a piffling heavily inwards my tummy past times the halt of the meal, as well as mightiness function meliorate inwards smaller bowls to outset a multi-course repast off.

Broccoli as well as Blue Vein Soup

Oil
1 Onion
2 large potatoes, chopped
1.1 litres vegetable stock
350g broccoli, chopped roughly
80g blueish cheese, crumbled
150mL milk
Salt, pepper as well as juice of one-half a lemon (opt.)
90mL (6 tablespoons) cream, to serve

1. Soften the onion inwards a saucepan. Add potatoes as well as stock as well as convey to the boil. Simmer 10 minutes.

2. Add broccoli as well as produce for 10min. Puree or crush the soup.

3. Add the cheese as well as milk as well as flavor to sense of savor alongside salt, pepper, as well as lemon juice. Heat through without boiling.

4. Serve alongside swirl of cream inwards each bowl.

July 20, 2008: Quick Light-Green Soup

Chattanooga, in addition to then I planned to furnish her alongside something good for you lot to crusade to redress the balance. She likewise had to adapt to the conditions - I'd come upward dorsum to a flare-up of unseasonable warmth, but Cindy got off the airplane into a to a greater extent than typical wintertime day: wet, windy in addition to cold. Luckily, The Age had caught my oculus alongside this recipe (I won't reproduce it hither - I followed their directions to the letter). It looked warming, good for you lot in addition to hearty - the perfect welcome abode meal. Especially alongside a delicious Indian breadstuff to accompany it.

With all the spices included inwards the ingredients, I expected something alongside a rich in addition to complex flavour - it didn't quite mensurate upward to what I'd imagined, but it was notwithstanding a pretty satisfying dinner. I'd upward the chilli to a few pinches, in addition to likely amp upward the ginger every bit well. For around argue it performed much improve every bit a reheated luncheon afterwards inwards the calendar week - peradventure the spices needed a few days to actually infuse.

June 10, 2009: Broccoli Soup Amongst Lemon-Chive Cream

this, from Orangette. It's all relatively uncomplicated - a chip of chopping, a chip of frying, a chip of simmering too an awesome few moments of devastation amongst the stick blender. Good times. Luckily, it's likewise damn tasty. Between the stalks of the broccoli too the faux-chicken stock, it had a variety of meatiness to it, commencement past times the delicious herbed sour-cream too the parmesan hints left past times the rind. H5N1 few pieces of breadstuff on the side too we'd establish the antidote to Melbourne's flare-up of winter.

Broccoli soup amongst lemon-chive cream

The soup
1 tbsp butter
2 leeks, washed too sliced (just the white parts)
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1kg broccoli, chopped (include everything - stems too all)
1l faux-chicken of vegetable stock
1 parmesan rind
salt

The cream
1 loving cup sour cream
2 shallots (the long, light-green kind), sliced thinly
1/4 loving cup finely chopped chives
1 tsp lemon zest
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 loving cup grated Parmesan
salt
1/2 tsp powdered garlic

In a saucepan, melt the butter too and then add together the leeks too onion, cooking over medium rut for most 10 minutes. Everything should instruct overnice too transparent.

Add the garlic too stir through, cooking briefly, earlier throwing inward the stock, broccoli, parmesan rind too salt. Stir everything together, convey to the boil too and then simmer.

While things are simmering, brand the cream. Basically merely stir all the ingredients together too modification the amounts of salt/garlic/lemon juice to your tastes.

Once the soup has simmered for most 20 minutes, take the parmesan rind too assail the soup amongst your powerful stick blender (or instruct through the whole rigmarole of batches inward the nutrient processor).

Add most one-half of your sour-cream mix to the soup too stir it through, using the residuum of it equally a garnish to dollop on top.

June 16, 2009: Sauerkraut Chowder

a previous calendar recipe). It's definitely a filling in addition to rich brew. It'll endure a acre earlier I'm brave plenty to plonk an entire block of cream cheese into soup again, but I'd similar to transfer the evaporated milk sentiment to other recipes.

Sauerkraut chowder

3-4 large potatoes
water
1 medium onion
400g tin forcefulness out or jounce of sauerkraut
300mL evaporated milk
250g cream cheese
2 teaspoons horseradish cream, or to taste
salt in addition to pepper

Chop the potatoes into bite-size pieces, leaving the peel on. Place the potatoes inward a large saucepan in addition to comprehend them amongst water. Chop the onion in addition to add together it to the pot. Bring the soup to the boil in addition to develop the vegetables until the potatoes are tender.

Stir inward the sauerkraut, evaporated milk in addition to cream cheese, continuing to stir until the cream cheese has melted in addition to blended in. Season amongst horseradish, tabular array salt in addition to pepper to taste.

Cover the soup in addition to simmer it on depression oestrus for thirty minutes earlier serving.

June 24, 2009: Minestrone

To become along alongside the stick blender that she bought me for my birthday, Cindy splashed out for a re-create of Soup For All Seasons from Aduki. It's a pocket-sized soup cookbook reveal yesteryear the practiced folks from Las Vegan, alongside 20 recipes for delicious vegan soups. Alas, real few of them postulate stick-blending - they're generally chunky as well as hearty. Take, for example, this minestrone.

It's chock amount of vegie chunks, pasta bits, beans as well as flavourings. It's practiced wintertime nutrient - filling as well as hot alongside simple, earthy flavours. On the whole the flavours are a lilliputian obviously - love apple tree as well as herbs produce most of the work, which is fine for dinner, but started to wearable us downward afterwards a few serves of leftovers.


Minestrone

2 leeks, sliced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 large carrots, sliced
2 sticks of celery, sliced
2 medium potatoes, cubed
1 tin hand notice diced tomatoes
1 tin hand notice cannellini beans
4-6 cups of vegie stock
3 bay leaves
1/2 tablespoon dried mixed herbs
1/2 loving cup pocket-sized pasta noodles
1/2 bunch fresh basil, chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil

Heat petroleum inwards a large saucepan, as well as add together the leeks, garlic, carrots, celery, bay leaves as well as dry out herbs as well as embrace as well as travail over depression oestrus until the vegies showtime to soften (about 10 minutes)

Add the tomatoes as well as stock, as well as stir together. Bring to the boil as well as simmer for virtually one-half an hour, alongside the occasional stir.

Add the beans as well as potatoes, ready for 10 to a greater extent than minutes.

Add the pasta as well as simmer for some other 10 minutes or so, until the pasta noodles accept cooked properly. Serve alongside the basil on transcend as well as alongside some breadstuff on the side.

July 1, 2009: Pumpkin, Carrot Together With Cumin Soup

Mapo Tofu earlier the contest fifty-fifty closed, Cindy insisted nosotros start doing things properly - outset alongside our contest winner, Jo, too her roasted cumin pumpkin soup. I expected every entry of our contest to last soup of some form, too I was especially looking frontwards to soups that would deal me principal my developing stick-blender technique. Aside from the stick-blending, this was all pretty elementary - some roasting, a chip of simmering too you're done. The halt production was pretty impressive - rich too warming, alongside the cumin giving the soup a chip of an border beyond merely the sugariness pumpkin too carrot.

We fiddled roughly alongside the recipe a tiny bit, every bit Jo suggested, adding carrot to the base of operations of pumpkin but otherwise leaving things every bit she suggested.


Roasted cumin too pumpkin soup

1.5kg pumpkin, peeled too sliced
3 carrots, sliced longways
2 small-scale onions, diced
A dyad of tablespoons of terra firma cumin
2-3 cups of vegie stock
2-3 tablespoons olive oil

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Lay the pumpkin too carrot out on a tray, drizzle alongside the one-half of the olive fossil oil too sprinkle alongside the cumin.

Roast the pumpkin too carrot for nigh 20 minutes, plow everything too hand it some other 20 minutes.

When the pumpkin has nigh 10 minutes left, estrus the remainder of the fossil oil inward a big pot too saute the onion until it's fourth dimension to stimulate got the vegies out - they should last overnice too soft.

Add the vegie stock too thence smush inward the roast vegies too their pan juices. Simmer for nigh fifteen minutes, stirring regularly too thence blend everything together alongside your stick blender into a shine paste.

Simmer for some other few minutes, adding H2O if you lot take away to modify your soup's consistency. Serve alongside some delicious breadstuff too relish the wintertime warmth.

April 20, 2009: Leftover Makeover - Thai Kokosnoot Soup

Vegan Indian Potluck knew non to fill upwards up on bland staples patch in that place was such an abundance of vibrant curries (and pastries!) on offer. So, at the cease of the night, nosotros establish ourselves amongst leftover curry to feed one, a large saucepan of dried-out rice, in addition to a final unopened bundle of roti. (There were also a position out of mushrooms, leftover from pizza, slumbering inward the fridge.) With a wisp of wintertime inward the air, I planned a large pot of soup filled out amongst rice; if I could rail downwards a Thai or Indian-inspired number, in addition to hence the roti would brand a perfect side!

Our Moosewood cookbook's been sitting neglected for a patch (Chinese-style bbq sauce recipe excepted), withal it most forthwith provided an answer when I opened it - a Thai-style soup amongst mushrooms, tofu, lemongrass stock in addition to kokosnoot milk. I took the author's advice in addition to doubled the quantity of stock, freezing one-half of it for later. I took about liberties, though, regarding rice in addition to spice. The recipe didn't include whatsoever rice but I happily up-ended 2-3 cups of it into the simmering soup. While Moosewood recipes are ofttimes verdant amongst herbs, they're a niggling timid amongst the spices; I increased their pinch of cayenne to several rigorous shakes.

The lawsuit was only was nosotros (and our over-burdened fridge) needed - smoothen in addition to filling, amongst that Thai squad of heat, sweetness, limey tang in addition to a impact of salt. But it's non quite a stand upwards for for Lucy's tofu inward lemongrass broth.


Thai kokosnoot soup
(based on a recipe inward Moosewood Restaurant New Classics)

lemongrass stock
6 cups water
3 fresh lemongrass stalks, coarsely chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
1 leek or onion, coarsely chopped
1 large carrot, peeled in addition to chopped
6cm piece fresh ginger, sliced
1/4 teaspoon whole dark peppercorns
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds

soup
1 10 400mL tin kokosnoot milk
2 tablespoons lime juice
cayenne pepper, to taste
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
200g theater tofu, sliced into cubes
1 loving cup mushrooms, sliced
2-3 cups cooked basmati rice
1 tablespoon fresh coriander, chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt

For the stock, position all the ingredients inward a large saucepan, convey them to the boil, in addition to hence comprehend in addition to simmer them for 35 to 45 minutes. Drain the vegetables from the stock, squeezing them to larn equally much liquid equally possible.

For the soup, render the stock to the saucepan in addition to add together the kokosnoot milk, lime juice, cayenne in addition to turmeric. Bring it to a simmer earlier adding the tofu, mushrooms, rice, coriander in addition to common salt in addition to hence attain for three to five minutes.

Serve the soup garnished amongst extra coriander leaves.

July 12, 2009: Sweetness White Patato Together With Cabbage Soup

winter recipes. This fourth dimension it was Gluten Free Goddess.

Despite the multitude of ingredients, it's a pretty straightforward recipe, amongst everything happening inwards 1 large pot. And it's tasty - a hint of spice from the peppers together with cumin, the sweetness of the sugariness potatoes together with the crunchy chunks of cabbage together with onion for texture. Ours ended upwards to a greater extent than stew than soup, together with I actually enjoyed the leftovers served upwards on some rice.


Sweet spud together with cabbage soup

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoons cumin
1 medium ruby onion, peeled together with diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 large sugariness potato, peeled together with diced
1/2 caput royal cabbage, shredded
1 large xanthous capsicum, diced
2 chipotle peppers, amongst a one-half a teaspoon of their adobo sauce
400g tin white beans, rinsed together with drained
2 cups vegie stock
1/2 loving cup peanut butter
400mL tin kokosnoot milk
2 tablespoons vegan Worcestershire sauce
1 fresh ruby chilli, finely diced
2-3 tablespoons chopped coriander
1 lime, juiced
Sea tabular array salt together with dark pepper, to taste

Heat the crude inwards a large saucepan together with add together the cumin pulverisation to brand a spicy paste. Throw inwards the onion, garlic, sugariness potato, cabbage, capsicum together with chipotles together with stir, cooking until everything's softened (about 10 minutes).

Add inwards the beans, stock, peanut butter, kokosnoot milk, Worcestershire sauce, chilli together with coriander together with stir together.

Cover together with simmer the soup for almost one-half an hour, until everything is tender. Add inwards the lime juice together with seasonings correct earlier serving.

Garnish amongst leftover coriander if at that spot is any.

September 5, 2009: Corn Chowder

northern jaunt in addition to hence a work trip each, we're finally getting dorsum to cooking all of the entries inwards our 800th ship giveaway. And we'd ameliorate hurry, if Saturday's 29 degrees is whatsoever sign of what's to come.

September 29-October 3, 2009: The Couscous Experiment - Stage Ii

The 2nd phase of the couscous experiment involved soup. I decided that the ideal candidate recipe already inwards our repertoire was savoury harira soup - there's lots of spicy liquid for the couscous to soak up, as well as the recipe is already dotted amongst onion, celery as well as lentils to trigger the teeth into action. I reckoned on 1/2 loving cup of couscous to ii cups of soup, though this brought us slightly soupy grains rather than the slightly grainy soup I was aiming for. With the unlike soup styles existence eaten over a few days, this isn't the fairest or best controlled experiment. Nevertheless, the results were interesting as well as non solely what I expected.

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