Home-made soup

[cojak]

I do think you're concentrating on the theory far too much.

I'm new to this home cooking lark...

[shaunbhoy]

I had a go at a Sweet Potato and Parsnip soup recently. I also added a bit of finely chopped garlic, ginger, cinammon, and a tin of coconut milk for extra sweetness.
Bring to the boil in a couple of pints of chicken stock then simmer for about
20-25 minutes.
After that I whizzed it through the blender and Voila!!

[OwlHoot]

Once or twice I've tried to make chicken soup by boiling a chicken carcase in water once I've had all the meat off it. But the result is a greasy, watery mess, and nothing like the chicken soup one gets in tins. So what am I doing wrong? Are any other ingredients needed?

[RichardCranium]

Once or twice I've tried to make chicken soup by boiling a chicken carcase in water once I've had all the meat off it. But the result is a greasy, watery mess, and nothing like the chicken soup one gets in tins.

Skim the fat & grease off and you have chicken stock, not chicken soup.

If you put some a chopped onion in with the carcase, it helps deal with the fat a little bit.

Edit: PS You're supposed to put the giblets in the pan too. That's why they give you the giblets.

[Halcyon]

After making homemade crispy fried Chinese duck, pancakes and plum sauce last week, I used the leftover duck bones and meat in a soup.

Boiled the bones to strip the meat off, added chinese rice vinegar balanced with some sugar, hot chillies, garlic, ginger, cornflour (to thicken) and then threw in some diced spring onions at the end.

Hot and sour duck soup - enough for a few days.

So much cheaper and tastier than those Covent garden soups (which are still nice incidently).

Full Marx!!

Top tip - if you use a takeaway which serves food in the little placcy things rather than tin foil and cardboard (as most of our locals do) save the placcy things, when you make a stock pour it into them and freeze. You then always have a handy brick of stock when you want to make soup (for me quite often just to save veges which are getting a bit sad rather than binning them...)

[Clippy]

Soup-er. IGMC.

15 super seasonal soup recipes.

[thunderlizard]

Mmm. Creamy gingery beetroot

[hyperD]

Full Marx!!

Took me a while to get that!

Good tip - thanks.

[hyperD]

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[cojak]

Hey - I bust the 3,000 post mark - woohoo!

and you haven't been banned! (close run thing tho' eh? )