So what soup next???

[TiG]

After the success of making butternut squash soup, i'm interested what else people think I should make.

I like spicey soup tho, so anything bland isn't going to cut it. The cayenne pepper for me was great for the butternut squash and really helped the flavour.

Do peppers make good soup?. If so any suggestions, and last but not least can you freeze soup?.

TiG

[Moby-Dick]

BBC - Food - Recipes - Roasted red pepper soup with pesto croutes

how abuot that ?

[0iD]

My fave is a chinese hot & sour noodle soup.

[tiggerai]

Yes, soup freezes really well.

[grizzla]

When in Edinburgh last month i stopped in a bar for lunch and had roatsed pepper and butternut squash soup, fantastic it was. Not a spicy soup but smooth and slight sweetness, could easily be adapted to include chilies to add some kick, also opened my eyes to the world of butternut squash which is now a veg i always get as part of my grocery shopping

[Colossous]

Heres one for you :-
6 red peppers,
1 tin (or fresh peeled if you can be bothered) of tomato's,
1large (or 2 small ) red onions,
1 cup red lentils,
2/3 red chilli's (depending on taste),
1 clove garlic chopped,
salt and ground pepper (lots of pepper for me !),
veg stock or buoillon.

Roast the red peppers(in a medium oven) with a splash of olive oil over them and some ground black pepper and a touch of salt untill they start to colour (this sweetens them up), fry the onion and garlic untill soft then add the roasted peppers and tomato's + lentils and stock to cover - bring to the boil (watch the lentils dont stick - stir !) and simmer for half an hour or so till the lentils are cooked. I blitz the soup in a liquidiser but thats up to preference !!
You can freeze it down in portions if you want to make a bigger batch.