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Soup Maker Recipe: Root Veg with Mushroom Soup

Mixing mushroom with any soup is always a hit or miss.  The colour of this soup was more muddy than it looks in the picture.  The colour seems to be very photogenic with a flash gun, but although muddy colour due to the mixture of green and orange, it was pretty tasty.

Soup Maker Recipe: Root Veg with Mushroom Soup

Lesley Smith
4 from 1 vote
Course Soup Maker
Cuisine Soup

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g Carrots peeled and sliced.
  • 200 g Potatoes peeled and cubed.
  • 150 g Onion chopped.
  • 50 g Leek chopped.
  • 50 g Asparagus chopped.
  • 50 g Mushrooms chopped.
  • 30 ml Olive oil.
  • 1 Garlic Clove Crushed.
  • Pinch Black Pepper.
  • Pinch White Pepper.
  • Pinch Chilli Powder.
  • Pinch Paprika.
  • 2 Vegetable Stock Cubes.

Instructions
 

  • Saute your onions and leek with the oil, garlic, black pepper, white pepper, chilli powder and paprika.

  • Add the rest of your ingredients to the pot.

  • Fill the soup maker to the maximum level with water, making sure it fills above your minimum and below your maximum level. Stir well to ensure nothing is stuck to the bottom of your pot.

  • Ensure the lid is on properly.

  • Choose the smooth setting for your soup. If you make it in a pot, simply cook the soup and use a blender to smooth.

 

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Soup Maker Recipe: Christmassy Leek and Potato Soup

Sometimes, it’s nice to have something warming to eat when it’s cold outside, and soup is always one of my go to things to make for anyone.  This recipe is nice and simple, and gives a slight twist on the traditional leek and potato soup…  Enjoy.

Of course, you don’t need a soupmaker to make this.  It makes just as well in a pan, but you need to watch it a lot more and add some more water if it looks like it’s boiling off.

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Soup Maker Recipe: Christmassy Leek and Potato Soup

Lesley Smith
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 21 minutes
Total Time 31 minutes
Servings 4 -6 Bowls

Ingredients
  

  • 500 g Potato chopped.
  • 100 g Carrot chopped.
  • 100 g Leek chopped.
  • 2 Teaspoons Rapeseed Oil.
  • 1 Vegetable Stock Cube.
  • Half Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon.
  • Half Teaspoon Ground Nutmeg.
  • 2 Tablespoons Light Soft Cheese - I used Philadelphia.
  • Ground White Pepper & Salt to taste.
  • Water.
  • 1 Lettuce Leaf Half Teaspoon of Ground Cinnamon and a Teaspoon of Dukkah to serve.

Instructions
 

  • Chop your vegetables into smallish cube sized shapes.

  • Saute your chopped leek in the soupmaker with your rapeseed oil. After a minute or two, add the vegetable stock cube, your cinnamon and nutmeg, carrots, salt and pepper and continue to stir as they soften.

  • In another minute or so, add potatoes and continue to stir, to ensure they don't burn, then add a little water and your soft cheese.

  • Fill your soupmaker with water, and stir until the soft cheese has melted into your mix, making your water a cloudy white colour.

  • Ensure you top up with water, to below the maximum fill line and above the minimum.

  • Ensure you have mixed well.

  • Put the lid on properly.

  • Choose the smooth setting.

  • Serve as prettily as you like.
  • Serve with a chopped lettuce leave, a sprinkling of cinnamon and a pinch of Dukkah seeds.

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Soup Maker Recipe: Cream of Sweet Potato and Tomato Soup

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Cream of Sweet Potato and Tomato Soup

Lesley Smith
This works fine for me, but you know your own soup makers and what the limits will be. Change the amount of ingredients to suit your machine. Check your instructions if you are not sure.
5 from 4 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 21 minutes
Total Time 31 minutes
Cuisine Soup Maker
Servings 4 -6 Bowls

Ingredients
  

  • 350 g Sweet Potato peeled and chopped.
  • 200 g Onion peeled and chopped.
  • 100 ml Cream or Milk.
  • 400 g Tin Plum Tomatoes.
  • 2 Knorr Chicken Stock Cubes.
  • Salt and Pepper to taste.
  • 1 Level Teaspoon Ground Ginger.
  • 1 Clove Garlic crushed.
  • 1 Teaspoon Butter.
  • Water.

Instructions
 

  • Method A

  • Add all ingredients to the pot, crumbling the stock cube in, and stir well.

  • Top up with water to below the maximum fill level and above the minimum fill level on a 1.6litre soup maker.

  • Make sure the lid is on tight.

  • Select the smooth setting.



  • Method B

  • Saute the onions, ginger and garlic in butter.

  • Add the rest of the ingredients to the pot, crumbling the stock cube in, and stir well.

  • Top up with water to below the maximum fill level and above the minimum fill level on a 1.6litre soup maker.

  • Make sure the lid is on tight.

  • Select the smooth setting.

 

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Soup Maker Recipe: Asparagus Tips with Aubergine

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I haven’t added a soup maker recipe to this blog for a while, so it’s long overdue.

I didn’t sauté any of the ingredients on this soup, but if you prefer that, give the onion a quick fry with some butter or rapeseed oil.

I find that olive oil reaches smoke point too quickly for me to use in my soup maker on the sauté function.

Soup Maker Recipe: Asparagus Tips with Aubergine

Lesley Smith
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 21 minutes
Total Time 31 minutes
Course Soup Maker
Cuisine Soup
Servings 4 -6

Ingredients
  

  • 300 g Asparagus Tips chopped.
  • 130 g Aubergine peeled and chopped.
  • 200 g Red Potatoes peeled and chopped.
  • 100 grams onion chopped.
  • 2 Knorr Chicken or Vegetable Stock Cubes.
  • 40 g Sundried Tomato Paste
  • 1 Teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Teaspoon Ground Black Pepper.

Instructions
 

  • Work quickly with Aubergine as it discolours fast.

  • I just added all the ingredients to my soupmaker.

  • Fill the soupmaker to the maximum level with water, making sure it fills above your minimum and below your maximum level.

  • Ensure the lid is on properly.

  • Choose the smooth setting for your soup. If you make it in a pot, simply cook the soup and use a blender to smooth.

 

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Soup Maker Recipe: Carrot and Coriander Soup

This is a luxurious and tasty, not to mention creamy soup, intended for soupmakers up to 1.6 litres.

If you think it may be too rich for you, replace the cream with more boiling water or stock and away you go with the low calorie version.

Soup Maker Recipe: Carrot and Coriander Soup

Course Soup

Ingredients
  

  • 1 teaspoon Olive Oil
  • 200 ml Fresh Cream
  • 1 teaspoon Ground Coriander
  • 800 ml Boiling Water
  • 1 Stock Pot Vegetable or Chicken
  • 600 g Carrots Peeled and Sliced or Chopped
  • 75 g Onion Chopped
  • 75 g Potatoes Sliced

Instructions
 

  • Saute the onions in the olive oil, adding your stock pot as the onions soften.
  • In the pot, add your onion mix, and the rest of your ingredients. Make sure to stir well before switching it on. It really does help to avoid soup sticking to the base of your soup maker if you don't have a non stick surface.
  • Select the smooth function for this option.
  • Serve with croutons.

 

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Soup Maker Recipe: Pumpkin Soup

It’s coming up to that time again, when we all wonder what to do with the lovely insides of pumpkins that we put out for Halloween.  I’d made my soup and had some lovely pictures, then managed to delete the pen drive, so this is a legally borrowed one that looks identical to how mine looked.

Enjoy your Halloween when it comes.

Remember, when using soup maker recipes, never fill your soup maker above the maximum level from the manufacturer, no matter what the recipe says.  We often use different soup makers, with different maximum levels.

Soup Maker Recipe: Pumpkin Soup

Lesley Smith
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 21 minutes
Total Time 36 minutes
Course Soup
Servings 4 -6

Ingredients
  

  • 400 g Finely Chopped Pumpkin
  • 200 g Finely Chopped Onion
  • 100 g Finely Chopped Carrot
  • 100 g Finely Chopped Potato
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Litre Stock Chicken, Beef, Pork or Vegetable
  • Cream Optional at the serving stage.
  • Parsley Garnish or Herbs (Optional at the serving stage.)

Instructions
 

  • For this recipe, to get more taste, you can lightly fry the onions in a frying pan with a teaspoon of coconut oil. The onions must stay white, so they will not need to be on for long. You can miss out this step and just put the ingredients straight into the pan if you are in a hurry, but the taste will not be so rich.
  • Add all the ingredients to the soup maker. Put your setting onto smooth. With your stock, fill to the maximum or 1600-1800g for all ingredients manually in a pot.
  • Serve when fully blended with garnish, parsley or herbs. Optional to add a swirl of cream to the soup when it's in the plate for some creaminess.

 

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Soup Maker: Carrot and Ginger Soup Recipe – 1.6 Litre

Another soup maker recipe for you, but remember, you can also make this in a pan.

Carrots make for a wonderful soup.  It really does not matter what is added to the soup, there is almost always going to be an innate sweetness that the carrots lend to the recipe.

When serving this up, you can serve with a little cream on top, creme fraise, or even some natural yoghurt.

Soup Maker: Carrot and Ginger Soup Recipe

Lesley S Smith
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 21 minutes
Total Time 26 minutes
Course Soup
Servings 4 -6

Ingredients
  

  • 500 g Carrots
  • 150 g Onion Peeled and Chopped
  • 1 Root Ginger Bulb Up to about 3 - 4 Inches Long. Peeled and chopped.
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 l Vegetable Stock
  • 1 teaspoon Coconut Oil
  • Rainbow Peppercorns To garnish.

Instructions
 

  • For this recipe, to get more taste, lightly fry the onions and ginger in a frying pan with a teaspoon of coconut oil. The onions must stay white, so they will not need to be on for long. You can miss out this step and just put the ingredients straight into the pan if you are in a hurry, but the taste will not be so rich.
  • Add all the ingredients except the ground rainbow peppercorns into the soup maker and set it to smooth for 21 minutes. With stock, fill to Maximum In Soupmaker or up to 1600-1800g for all ingredients manually in a pot.
  • Serve and garnish with rainbow peppercorns.

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Soup Maker: Peppered Mushroom Soup Recipe – 1.6 Litre

Another soupmaker recipe goodie.

Mushrooms are available here all year round and make fabulous soups.  The taste is completely different to anything you can buy in a tin.

This recipe does make for very thick soup when it cools slightly, so you might want to water it down a bit or use slightly less ingredients if you want a more watery soup.    The colour of mushroom soup isn’t the most appetising, but the taste more than makes up for that.

It might be too peppery for some, so if you don’t like the strong taste of peppercorns, add less ground peppercorns to give your soup a milder kick.

Soup Maker: Peppered Mushroom Soup – 1.6 Litres

Lesley S Smith
Prep Time 3 minutes
Cook Time 21 minutes
Total Time 24 minutes
Course Soup
Servings 4 - 6

Ingredients
  

  • 400 g Mushrooms Washed and Chopped
  • 200 g Chopped Leek and Onion
  • Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Ground Rainbow Peppercorns
  • 1 l Beef Stock
  • Chopped Chives To Decorate
  • 1 Teaspoon Double Cream Per Person To swirl on the top at serving.

Instructions
 

  • This recipe is intended to be cooked on the smooth setting. Add your chopped mushrooms, leek and onions to the pot.
  • Add in a pinch of salt and your teaspoon of ground rainbow peppercorns and your litre of stock (or up to the 1.6 mark on a soupmaker)
  • Set to the smooth setting, or in a pan, simmer for 20 minutes and then blend.
  • Serve with a little cream to temper the slightly spicy taste of the peppercorns and decorate with some chopped chives.