Soups and Stews recipes

Add your fresh or dried and soaked beans to a pan of water with the bay leaf, squashed tomato and potato this will help to flavour the beans and soften their skins.
Cook until tender check by tasting. They must be soft. Dried beans can take up to an hour, but check fresh ones after 25 minutes. Drain (reserving about half a glass of the cooking water), and discard the bay leaf, tomato and potato.
Now season with salt, pepper and a splash of oil.

A fantastically simple asparagus soup, pureéd till its silky smooth, is always a winner. Delicious eaten hot (or cold on really hot days with the help of a little lemon juice). The poached egg on toast makes it for me, but of course you dont have to serve the soup with them. I usually poach a couple more eggs than I need in case of breakages in the pan! Ive made this for eight, but feel free to halve quantities or freeze soup leftovers.

This Tuscan soup is delicious it's a soup everyone should try. Just thinking of it makes me salivate! It's a family-friendly soup babies and grandparents (both without teeth!) can eat it with gusto. I've added roasted cherry tomatoes to my recipe but it also works really well just with tinned. The great thing is that it only takes 20 minutes to cook, so go for it! PS Use a stale white cottage-style loaf not cheap sliced white factory bread.

Minestrone soup is a thick, delicious, and filling dish. It is quick and fairly easy to make. This soup is an Italian dish that is extremely popular throughout the world today. Minestrone soup is perfect for any day or occasion, and is definitely a comfort food.

Preheat a medium soup pot over medium heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan, carrots, onions, celery, garlic and saute 5 minutes. Add tomato sauce and stock and cover pot. Turn up heat and bring to a fast boil...

The garlic is added in two lots here to get two different flavors. The first amount is sautéed with other vegetables at the beginning of the recipe in good Italian or Spanish fashion. The second goes in near the end to provide a bite. The tomatoes provide most of the liquid. Servings: Makes 6 cups (1.5 liters); 4 first-course servings.

PERSIAN NOODLE SOUP...

Baked Potato Soup Recipe...

Combine soup ingredients in large saucepan over low heat to simmer (reserve snow pea pods and carrots for broiling or stir frying)...