Can we start by agreeing that winter soups are awesome? Everyone say it: Soup is wonderful and marvellous, and it’s one of the reasons why we’re not that sad when the weather gets cooler and the firewood and blankets find their way back into our lives and our living rooms.
8 Reasons Why Soup Is Super.
1. It’s easy. Chop your own ingredients the old fashioned way or make it easier and buy them pre-chopped.
2. It’s forgiving. You can’t really mess up a soup. It’s hard to overcook it, and there’s never a strict recipe. Throw in more carrots, more peas, or add more potato.
3. You can even have it cold – good old gazpacho. But winter and hot soup go together so well.
4. Leftover soup is even better. You don’t have to eat it as soon as you’ve made it, and day after soup is just as good.
5. Freeze it – it’s easy. Cook clever, and save electricity and effort: make your favourite soup in bigger quantities, then freeze it in handy smaller sizes, for easy, defrostable lunches.
It’s for herbivores, carnivores or omnivores – a vegan soup is as tasty as a chicken or beef soup.
6. Soup is for everyone. It’s for herbivores, carnivores or omnivores – a vegan soup is as tasty as a chicken or beef soup, and catering for different tastes is easy: make one bowl with meat stock, and one without.
7. It’s the cleverest way to use bits and pieces of leftover meat, bones and vegetables. And the cheaper cuts of meat make the best soup.
8. It’s a great way to get veggies inside kids – blend it up in a smooth, creamy mix and they’ll never know they’re eating their greens.
Try this easy recipe from Woolworths Taste magazine, for Balsamic, chilli, tomato and red pepper soup.
