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Old 02-09-2012, 14:42
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hi,

i'm looking to get my daughter to eat more vegetables. she'll only really eat them on a roast dinner with gravy.

i've made vegetable soup before and she has enjoyed it, but it's been very boring for us adults. just a load of veg and stock cubes, it's a little bit tasteless.

any recipes for a decent vegetable soup that we can all eat? a spicy one, a creamy one... anything really. with autumn coming in i'd like to do a veg soup a couple of times a week.
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Old 02-09-2012, 14:58
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This is what I made last night


Lamb Pepperpot style stew

Fry off lamb (454g carrerole pack)
Add to pot with 1 chopped onion and fry gently.
Add two big squirts of tomato puree and a teaspoon each of allspice, thyme, pepper, garam masala/curry powder and all purpose seasoning
Stir and get the lamb and onions coated in the spices.


Add one lamb stock cube and a vegetable stock pot and add enough water to half - 2/3 fill the pot.


Add a chopped carrot or two and half a swede (diced).

Add 1 sachet of Creamed Coconut.

Simmer for 30-40 mins.
Stir every once in a while.

Add diced potato.

Simmer for another 30 mins.

Add diced peppers (1/2 each of red, yellow and green).

Cook for 15 mins.
Add frozen peas.

If you want a thicker stew then combine flour, butter and a little water to make a paste and stir it though and cook it out (you don't want a raw flour taste).


When cooked through adjust the seasoning with lemon jiuce/vinegar, worcestershire, soy and hot sauce (I used Encona West Indian).

Obviously this is not veggie.
Leave out the lamb and lamb stock cube and add another veg stock pot or cube.

The coconut is optional. It acts as a slight thickener aswell as giving a different flavour. Combined with the curry herbs it makes it different to a standard stew.



If you have celery and leeks then they would be a good addition.

Also, to give it more depth you may was to sweat the onions, celery, leek etc to give it a bit of colour instead of throwing it straight into the pot.


Basically, raid the fridge, add hebs, spices and condiments and see what comes out.
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Old 02-09-2012, 15:30
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Get some Marigold Organic Vegetable Stock. A couple of teaspoonfuls added to vegetable soup lifts the flavour.

Also make a basic vegetable soup with onions, carrots, and potatoes plus any other veg in the veg rack and add a tin of Tesco spiced mixed beans at the end of cooking time. It makes a wholesome wintry spicy soup that is a meal in itself.

Make a clear soup with diced vegetables and beef stock and add some pasta 10 minutes before the end of cooking time.

Vary the consistency of the soup from time to time: [LIST][*]Dice the veg small and serve without blending,
[*]Add plenty of potatoes to the soup and liquidise. It will be lovely and thick and creamy.
[*]Part liquidise so that there a few lumps in the soup[/LIST]
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Old 02-09-2012, 15:48
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Another quick way is to get children to eat veg is to blitz either homemade or a good make tin of ratatouille and use it as a pasta sauce - you could stir it into a casserole or soup too.
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Old 02-09-2012, 16:27
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Make a veggie soup how you'd normally make it, but leave it chunky, make the vegetable pieces bigger than normal, and add a quarter pot of single cream at the end, it'll make the dish into a delicious treat.
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Old 02-09-2012, 18:06
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Another quick way is to get children to eat veg is to blitz either homemade or a good make tin of ratatouille and use it as a pasta sauce - you could stir it into a casserole or soup too.
That's a really good idea. I think I will be using this method to encourage certain adults in my household to eat more veg.
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Old 02-09-2012, 18:30
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thanks for the replies so far, will be having a go at them all!

Utopian - great idea, daughter loves pasta with a tomato sauce so this would work great, but... how do you make ratatouille?
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Old 02-09-2012, 19:31
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Here's our current fav veg soup: http://southernfood.about.com/od/che...r/bl30222v.htm and we both normally hate broccoli! The mustard and the cheese really give a lovely flavour, you have to try it to believe it
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Old 02-09-2012, 19:38
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how do you make ratatouille?
A kind of mediterranean sautee/braise with aubergines, courgettes, peppers, tomatoes etc.
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Old 02-09-2012, 20:19
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Agree with the poster above - Marigold Vegetable Stock powder makes a huge difference

I went off making soup for a couple of years but I've started again now

In the past I always liked 'one thing soups'............ie soup made with one thing and maybe a clove of garlic and a half a of chilli.........like tomato soup, celery soup, pea soup, lentil soup etc

But this time round I'm having the veg soup as my main meal of the day trying to lose some weight so I'm making big chunky veg soups with lots of chunks of different veg

So if you want chunky soups but want to really thicken them up just stick a couple of ladel fulls of the soup into the blender, blend it then pour back in to the pan

Another good idea is to have a big stock of tins of different beans...........most supermarkets seem to sell tins of various beans in their cheapo ranges which are great for filling out a soup.

A little moan............my local sainsbury is very bad for buying single veg, I mean I want one carrot, one leek, one parsnip etc..........they're all bagged up in kilograms or something........I don't want a bag of 5 leeks.........

So I have to walk a bit to Waitrose where they seem to sell everything in ones if you want them
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Old 02-09-2012, 20:35
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Just on the Supermarket veg point - around here they're ok as you can buy items in singular but Morrison's actually have a stew/casserole pack which is something like 1 onion, 1 carrot, celery , leek and 1/2 swede and it only coast something like 65p.
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Old 02-09-2012, 20:55
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My version of ratatouille. Each to their own it's not traditional as I'll throw in what I have available but I eat it quite a bit

tin of chopped tomatoes
Finely diced onion
1 veg stock cube or stock pot. I use those new knorr stock pots that look like jelly
1 medium courgette sliced about 1cm thick or less but not too thin
1 medium Aubergine cut into cubes about 1 inch
Handful of mushrooms
A pepper. Red or yellow work better. Cut into chunks
Teaspoon of mixed herbs
Squirt of tomato purée
Squirt of garlic purée or clove of garlic
Generous glug of olive oil*
Pepper to taste

TO MAKE
put a bit of oil in frying pan and fry onion till clear
Throw a splash more in and throw courgette, Aubergine, peppers and mushrooms and fry them for about a min
Put in everything else. Shove a lid on it and simmer till its soft

I serve with pasta or rice or ciabatta*
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Old 02-09-2012, 21:00
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Just on the Supermarket veg point - around here they're ok as you can buy items in singular but Morrison's actually have a stew/casserole pack which is something like 1 onion, 1 carrot, celery , leek and 1/2 swede and it only coast something like 65p.
I expect most of the supermarkets do something similar and I do look at the pre-prepared packs...........I suppose it's a bit like that old thing of not shopping online because you want to squeeze the tomatoes...........

I like to get a leek that has lots of the tough thick green bits on top and a like a carrot of a certain size etc..............

One pre-pack I do like is sainsbury ...........it;'s broccoli, peas and two kinds of green beans..........that's good for soup (and stir fries)
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Old 02-09-2012, 21:02
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I love lentil soup. A fistful of red lentils, a couple of carrots, a large onion and a few stock cubes. So quick and tasty. You can jazz it up with red pepper, ham or curry powder depending on your mood.
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Old 02-09-2012, 22:31
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I sneak veg into pastas, stews, chilli, bolognese etc by grating finely and letting it cook out or you could just puree a bunch of cooked veg and add it to whatever sauce you're making.

Another vote for lentil soup, or tomato and lentil. Minestrone is simple to make and tasty.
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Old 03-09-2012, 12:53
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That's a really good idea. I think I will be using this method to encourage certain adults in my household to eat more veg.
Aww, thanks. It did work for me with my three - now adults!
Grating carrots or courgettes/beetroot into cakes are good too.
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Old 03-09-2012, 14:40
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Some of you folks will probably hate this but i like a tin of Heinz or Baxters, i know they do not taste as good as the home-made but they are still good and have obvious benefits.
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Old 03-09-2012, 15:57
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Some of you folks will probably hate this but i like a tin of Heinz or Baxters, i know they do not taste as good as the home-made but they are still good and have obvious benefits.
I don't like straight up processed soup. There's always something missing. A bit of soy or chilli sauce can always sort that though
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Old 03-09-2012, 16:03
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Spicy butternut squash soup is good (you can put less chilli in if you don't like it) you can also use a variation of this for pumpkin soup.
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/16166...uash-soup.aspx

This is a nice soup, roasted red pepper and tomato, you can also use less chilli in this one too.
http://www.food.com/recipe/tomato-an...er-soup-145074

A simple leek and potato soup is good. Saute some sliced onions and some leeks, add some finely chopped potatoes, some chicken or vegetable stock, simmer until veg are soft, season, blitz and add a little cream and finely chopped parsley.

Curried/spiced parsnip soup can be as spicy as you like
http://www.deliaonline.com/community...snip_soup.html

Carrot and lentil soup http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/12908...ntil-soup.aspx

Are there any special vegetables you want her to eat?
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Old 03-09-2012, 17:31
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Some of you folks will probably hate this but i like a tin of Heinz or Baxters, i know they do not taste as good as the home-made but they are still good and have obvious benefits.
I used to eat tinned soup a lot but they'd always change the recipe every now and then and usually stick 'Improved' on the label but I never liked the 'improved' ones so gradually the ones I liked got fewer and fewer until i gave up buying them

Heinz Tomato seems to have stayed the same and that's the only tinned one I ever have now, usually stock up when it's on special offer

Used to have mostly Baxters..........Cock-a-Leekie and Potato and Leek, alas they too got 'improved'............

That was the last straw which decided me to start making my own
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Old 04-09-2012, 10:16
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Here's our current fav veg soup: http://southernfood.about.com/od/che...r/bl30222v.htm and we both normally hate broccoli! The mustard and the cheese really give a lovely flavour, you have to try it to believe it
Aw, sorry I've just come back on line & some lovely forum members have answered your question - google will have a few different types/ways to make it too.
Tbh, I usually use the tinned one as it's quick and can be stored ready to go if you need a quick meal.


SORRY, I MEANT TO QUOTE 'JOHNOR' -

Specktater, I love that soup to btw as I'm veggie.Obviously I change the stock to a vegetable stockpot by Knorr.
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Old 04-09-2012, 11:17
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My version of ratatouille. Each to their own it's not traditional as I'll throw in what I have available but I eat it quite a bit

tin of chopped tomatoes
Finely diced onion
1 veg stock cube or stock pot. I use those new knorr stock pots that look like jelly
1 medium courgette sliced about 1cm thick or less but not too thin
1 medium Aubergine cut into cubes about 1 inch
Handful of mushrooms
A pepper. Red or yellow work better. Cut into chunks
Teaspoon of mixed herbs
Squirt of tomato purée
Squirt of garlic purée or clove of garlic
Generous glug of olive oil*
Pepper to taste

TO MAKE
put a bit of oil in frying pan and fry onion till clear
Throw a splash more in and throw courgette, Aubergine, peppers and mushrooms and fry them for about a min
Put in everything else. Shove a lid on it and simmer till its soft

I serve with pasta or rice or ciabatta*
(homemade) Ratatouille makes the perfect vegetable lasagne. I prefer it to a meat version and I am a total meat-lover.
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Old 04-09-2012, 15:48
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SORRY, I MEANT TO QUOTE 'JOHNOR' -

Specktater, I love that soup to btw as I'm veggie.Obviously I change the stock to a vegetable stockpot by Knorr.
^^lol we're not veggie, but I also like to use the veggie stock cube, has a nicer flavour I find. I think what I like best about this soup, is the shock of finding an edible medium for broccoli (the most alien looking of veg!)
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Old 04-09-2012, 15:52
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broccoli (the most alien looking of veg!)
What about broccoflower?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Br...w=1123&bih=671
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Old 04-09-2012, 20:23
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I thought they were photochopped to start with! Wow. Have you eaten one? I think I'd run a mile if that arrived in the veg box! (or try and take it to my leader! )
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