Soups

Delicious soup recipes

Gwyneth Paltrow's many-mushroom soup

Serves about 6 Preparation time 15 minutes, plus soaking Cooking time 45 minutes Ingredients • 3 dried shiitake mushrooms • 125ml/4 1/2fl oz boiling water • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil...

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Antony Worrall Thompson's scotch broth

Marcello Tully's Spiced Squash Soup

Dish type: Soup A beautiful autumn soup from Marcello Tully, you can impress your guests by serving this dish in a glass to show off its layers. Serves 8 Cooking time: 1 hr 25 mins ...

Adam Gray's Parsnip and Apple Soup

Dish type: Soup Serves 4 Ingredients: 500g parsnip 1 onion 2 Granny Smith apples 50g butter 1 litre semi skimmed milk 150ml single cream Salt White pepper 3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese ...

Mushroom maestro James Martin on the joys of the versatile veg

Many a weekend we enjoy watching James Martin on Saturday Kitchen, either rustling up a new recipe or umpiring that record breaking omelette race! Now the celebrity chef has created six new...

Gordon Ramsay's cream of cauliflower soup with truffle oil and croutons

Ingredients (Serves 8) 25g/1oz butter 1 tbsp olive oil 1 large or 2 medium cauliflowers (about 1.1kg/2½lb), stalks removed and cut into florets 1 large potato, about 250g/9oz,...

Lentil and onion soup

Ingredients (serves 4) 4 tbsp olive oil 6 onions (about 900g/2lb in total), peeled and finely sliced Salt and freshly ground black pepper 150g/5oz Puy lentils 3 tsp finely chopped...

Ching-He Huang's char sui roast pork noodle soup

Ingredients (Serves 2) 2 pork fillets 200g/7oz dried udon (flat wheat-flour) noodles 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil 600ml/1pt vegetable stock 2 small pak choi, leaves separated ...

Kenny Atkinson’s pan roasted scallops with gazpacho soup and basil cress

Ingredients (Serves 4) 12 x Scallops – cleaned (your fishmonger can do this for you) 50 ml Borderfields rapeseed oil Lemon juice Salt Fresh basil leaves for garnish For...

Alice Hart's Summer minestrone

Ingredients (Serves 4) 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 shallots, finely chopped 2 celery sticks, finely chopped 1 fennel bulb, finely chopped 200g...

Roast chicken noodle soup with leeks, peas and dill

Ingredients (Serves 4 to 6) 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 3 long leeks, tough outer leaves discarded, and the white and very pale green parts sliced into 5mm/¼in-thick rings Flaky...

Pumpkin soup with dark rye croutons

Ingredients (Serves 6) 1 tbsp olive oil 2 onions, peeled and finely chopped 1kg/2¼lb pumpkin or squash, peeled, deseeded and chopped into chunks 1 tsp finely chopped fresh sage...

Green tea, tofu, noodle and cress soup

Ingredients (Serves 4) 4 PureTea Green tea bags 4cm/1½in piece root ginger, peeled and thinly sliced 150g/5oz egg noodles 300g/11oz silken tofu, drained and cubed 150g/5oz...

Spiced butternut squash soup and fritters

Ingredients (serves 4) For the soup 1 butternut squash, peeled and diced 2 tsp ground coriander 2 tsp ground cumin ½ tsp dried chilli flakes Salt and freshly ground black...

A recipe from a cookbook with a blessing

Saha is an engaging food journey through Lebanon and Syria – a much unexplored cuisine. The title translates as ‘blessing’ which is a fitting name for such a great read. The husband...

Ingredient of the week: Parsnips

What was once England's staple root vegetable has now been rather eclipsed by the potato. But it still has myriad uses in the kitchen and is a firm family favourite. There is something wonderful about...