Forums: January 2012 Kickstart Forum: Soup Recipes
Created on: 01/11/12 07:34 AM Views: 663 Replies: 4
Vat Joined: 09/07/10 Location: Georgia Posts: 7	Soup Recipes Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 7:34 AM I'm looking for some good soup recipes using lentils, root vegetables and beans. Can you guys share your favorites with me?
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Wild4Stars Joined: 12/27/09 Location: Florida Posts: 832	RE: Soup Recipes Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 7:46 AM http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/02/rainy-day-lentil-soup.html Here is a good lentil, carrot, potato soup. It uses a pressure cooker, but you can cook it without. This website has tons of great low fat vegan recipes. It's the first place I go when I'm looking for a recipe. Vikki ~ Wild4Stars@gmail.com
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2069	RE: Soup Recipes Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 7:53 AM Vat wrote: I'm looking for some good soup recipes using lentils, root vegetables and beans. Can you guys share your favorites with me? Sure - dice the root veggies into chunks of similar size (whether you want 1/2 inch or 1 inch chunks, whatever, just make sure they're all about the same size so they cook evenly). We cook the beans separately (we usually do several meals' worth of beans at once then package into 'meal' size portions in the fridge so we can grab them at will). Veggie stock and/or water (if you use water, you'll want to add aromatics like onion, celery, garlic, etc, the stuff you'd use to make stock yourself). Bring to a boil and add root veg chunks. Bring temp back up then simmer until the veggies are about halfway done. Then add the lentils - do about half the amount of lentils you'd use if you were cooking them by themselves so that they don't overwhelm the soup. Continue simmering until veggies and lentils are done. Add beans and just heat through for a minute or two. No real "recipe" - we just mix and match whatever ingredients we've got on hand. We usually pick either lentils or beans rarely both. And, we generally also pick a grain of some sort to add - quinoa, brown rice, barley, etc. That way it's got everything right in one pot. Same type process with the grains - add about half what you would normally add for the amount of liquid (so if you'd do rice at 1 cup rice to 2 cups water, and you've got 4 cups of liquid in the soup, you'd do 1 cup of rice). The key, really, is to know about how long the veggies take to cook. Because then you work backwards from that. If it takes 30 minutes to cook all the root veggies, and it takes 20 minutes to cook the quinoa, then you'd let the veggies simmer for 10 minutes then add the quinoa. That way it's all done at the same time. --Deb R
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chickadee Joined: 01/12/11 Location: North Eastern Ontario, Canada Posts: 52	RE: Soup Recipes Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9:14 AM I make a clean out the frig soup. I did start by making a sweet potato lentil soup which had curry as the base and I just kept altering it with what I happened to have in the house. I use a pressure cooker for all my soups. I soak beans overnight if using. I braise onions, garlic, celery in a bit of water then add carrots sliced and curry powder. Then I add 2 cups of washed lentils (or the soaked beans), sometimes I'll add some barley or wheat berries (and reduce the equivalent amount of lentils). Then I add 9 cups water and bring to the pressure in the pressure cooker. I turn off the heat and let the pressure drop naturally and add the sweet potatoes and give a good stir. Bring back to pressure. Then when sweet potatoes are cooked and pressure falls I add a can of diced tomatoes and spinach that wilts in the heat still in the pot. We love it.
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heatherz82 Joined: 01/04/12 Posts: 19	RE: Soup Recipes Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM My yummy potato soup: 5potatos chopped 5c water 1 onion diced 1 stalk celery diced very small 1c regular soymilk 1/4 c flour 1tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 1T garlic powder Directions In large pot. Chop potatos, onions, and celery. Add water and bring to a boil. When potatos are tender. Mix milk and flour together until smooth add to potatos also add all spices turn to low and let simmer. Once it is thick it is ready to eat. This makes 8 3/4cup serving. Delicious, and even good reheated the next day.
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