You know those stew packs you can buy in a lot of supermarkets, they are usually £1 each, and during the day sometimes its a bit hectic to watch a proper meal cooking, boiling, brazing, grilling and so on.
Well, if I forget to buy meat in, or it’s late in the month with little money to spare I put a soup together, I rarely have to check on it, I can prep it easily between feeds/school runs.
1 Stew pack containing –
1 Swede/Turnip
1 Parsnip
1 Onion
1 carrot
From Kitchen –
Vegetable stock cube
Garlic (to taste)
Salt & Pepper
Olive Oil
1 Potato
250ml Water (or add as required due to variations in the size of vegetables and families)
How to –
Chop up the onion, peel the turnip, parsnip, potato & carrot. Then cut them all in half.
Smash garlic. (you’ll be blending it later so leave it whole)
Gently sweat onions in a little olive oil.
Add the Garlic. When you can smell them, it’s time for the next step, if you have trouble with the sniffy, try the poking, if they are soft move on.
Pop in your made-up Vegetable stock, Bouquet Garni, Salt & Pepper.
Then throw in all the Vegetable simmer… and leave them till they are soft.
When they are soft, blend it all up however you’d like, if you want a little extra creamy-ness, pour in a little bit of Créme Fraíche … It’s a good winter soup, it’s cheap, it’s got the sweetness from the turnip, the thickness from the potato and best of all? Plenty of vegetables feeds many mouths, can be made thicker or thinner – It’s a great start if you want to get into making your own soup… although I do have an easier one for you!
