Soup for Every Day: 365 of Our Favourite Recipes

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New Covent Garden Book of Soup and Beyond: Soups, Beans and Other Things (New Covent Garden Soup Company) Lots of good recipes, ranged by season which is a very useful idea to help make the best use of fresh ingredients. Looking forward to enjoying lots of different flavours.

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Strictly speaking, Slater’s recipe is billed as a spiced carrot soup, and he adds cumin and chilli as well, while New Covent Garden suggests a sprinkling of nutmeg, which is a nice idea in a creamier soup, though I’m going to keep my version strictly coriander-focused.Rinse the courgettes, remove the top and bottom, then chop roughly into rings. (If you’re not going to blend your soup then you might want to take a little more care over this bit, but as I blitz it all then I don’t worry too much about the size.) Add to the pan. I’m using my usual Portmeirion casserole but you can use any large pan. Fancy having a go yourself? Like the leek and potato soup I showed you a couple of weeks ago, there’s not a lot to it. Small daughter absolutely loves this soup, it’s a close second to leek and potato for her. I have to say that I was a bit surprised that she took to it the way that she did when I first made it – I expected a bit more resistance to a soup other than leek and potato – but it’s a pleasant green colour, slightly creamy from the Brie and is actually just a very nice soup so there’s nothing for her not to like! Put on the pan on the stove and bring to the boil. At this point, I put my pan in the bottom (simmering) oven of my Aga and it will sit there until I’m ready to put the soup in the blender. You can get the same effect from a conventional oven on a very low light (ideal if you’re out at work all day) or in a slow cooker. You only need to cook the vegetables until they’re soft so even if you’re in a bit of a hurry, it will only take about 20 minutes to make your soup if you don’t have time to leave the pan. Tonight, it’s courgette and Brie, a recipe which I originally found in my Covent Garden soup book but as usual am too lazy busy to follow exactly so have adapted to my throw-it-all-in-the-pot style. Improv cooking at it’s best!

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Great British Soups: 120 tempting recipes from Britain's master soup-makers (New Covent Garden Soup Company)Return to a clean saucepan and then stir in the spinach and cook for a further five minutes until the spinach has wilted.