
3 Hearty Recipes To Try This Month
Whether it’s smooth and silky, rustic and chunky or light and brothy, soup conjures up feelings of cosiness for me. When I was a child, my mum always had a pot of chicken or turkey stock on the go, ready to be incorporated into one of her soups for when my sister, Simone, and I got home from school. It not only fed us, it turned us into avid soup-makers too.
Now, my own home is filled with soup fans. It’s the first thing I offer to our children if they’re feeling under the weather. Soup helps soothe everything from a sniffly cold to a tired body after a tough day. Our daughter even takes broth or soup in a flask for her school lunch.
Making stocks, soups and broths is almost a state of mind. I love having a rummage in the fridge and seeing what needs to be used up and turned into a soup. It’s spontaneous and creative and a good way to learn how different flavours work together, as well as being a sustainable way of making the most of leftovers. So many cooked vegetables can be turned into a soup once you have just a few other ingredients to hand. Cooked meat and seafood can also be transformed into a chunky broth or chowder with a little know-how, and leftover rice and pasta can be given another lease of life in a bowl of soup.
Inspired? Here are three recipes to try at home…

Roasted Parsnip, Garlic & Haricot Bean Soup With Sage
This is a smooth and silky soup, topped with deliciously crisp fried sage leaves. The garlic cloves, when roasted in their skins, deliver a sweet but rounded depth. A perfect soup for a cold blustery day.

Cauliflower, Cashew & Coriander Soup
This smooth and creamy golden bowl of goodness gets its silky texture from cashew nuts and its soothing anti-inflammatory benefits from the yellow turmeric. Serve on its own, or with toasted cashews scattered over the top.

Pumpkin, Cheese & Rosemary Scones
Savoury but still light in texture, these scones are great served with a big bowl of soup. You can use any squash instead of pumpkin, and, if you fancy, add lardons of crispy bacon or diced chorizo to the mix.
Soup, Broth, Bread is published by Michael Joseph and is available to buy here.
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