Recipe (natural) for zucchini soup, pumpkin soup, etc.

Platinum Member Joined: Jul 28 2006 Posts: 7190

Recipes for real home-made zucchini soup, pumpkin soup, etc. w/o onion soup mix, and other unnatural chazerei that would be ideal for cold weather, anyone?

Thanks, in advance.

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48152

I hve some, but they're kind of plain. Are spices okay?

Platinum Member Joined: Jul 28 2006 Posts: 7190

Silver Member Joined: Jul 03 2006 Posts: 716

I take 3-4 zuchinnis, boil them in water, blend with a hand blender in the pot after they are soft and add salt onion powder and garlic powder.

As for butternut squash, potatoes, or sweet potatoes, I do the same but just add a little chicken soup mix.

I just made "orange" soup. I fried onions and garlic, added any orange veggies at hand (today it was the pear-shaped orange squash, carrots and sweet potato) I added a couple of zucchinis, a few sticks of fennel and lots of water with a touch of salt and boiled until soft. My trick which gets all the children eating and asking for seconds is to blend it smooth!

Gold Member Joined: Mar 14 2006 Posts: 1879

I make my zucchini soup with onion - no frying, and add salt, pepper and garlic sometimes. blend when soft. you can do the same thing with celery instead of zucchini, just cook for longer.

my butternut squash soup is heavenly - onions and squash, carrots if you want, also no frying - and put in some salt, pepper and curry powder! it gives it a little kick, delicious. blend when soft.

I also make a blended pea soup - really easy, saute an onion and carrot cut into circles. add a can of blended peas, some water, and cook till carrots are soft.

I never use msg or soup mixes in my soups, and have always gotten compliments on my soups - I make tomato soup with cabbage and carrots (spiced with a bit of black pepper, sugar and vinegar), vegetable soup with lentils, potato soup, onion soup....

pm me if you want more recipes - I start most meals in the winter with soup!

Silver Member Joined: Dec 01 2006 Posts: 688

Anyone else with zucchini soup recipes? I have tons of zucchini here and want to make a yummy (and freezable) soup.

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48152

in a day or so it's gonnna be 90 deg. too hot for soup. see you next fall!

Posted: Thu, Jun 07 2007, 2:57 am Post subject:

One of the best ways to add flavor, without adding chemicals to soups and stews is to make stock in advance.

Take a large pot. Use unpeeled carrots, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes or butternut squash, zucchini, parsnip even kohlrabi... cut them all into large pieces and toss them into a pot.

Take a bunch of fresh dill, fresh parsley, fresh 'soup greens' (which are the tops of parsnips) and bruise them (after you wash them, crush them in your hands) then toss that into your pot.

If you want to make if fleishig, add chicken wings or the carcass of the turkey you made last week and froze and add that too.

Season with black pepper and just a little salt (with all the other flavors, salt isn't so important) add water and let it sit on a medium flame for about 4 or 5 hours.

Let it cool and then using a medium to fine strainer, decant the liquid into half liter (20 oz) empty bottles of soda and freeze. Defrost as needed.

Since you've cooked the heck out of the veggies, all the vitamins and nutrients are int he liquid and you can throw away the leftovers.
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Moderator Joined: Dec 26 2005 Age: 33 Posts: 11430

Is using worchestershire sauce considered unnatural? It's great for soups. I also put some sherry into my soups. Garlic salt is also great for flavoring.

Posted: Wed, Jun 20 2007, 1:06 am Post subject:

Posted: Wed, Jun 20 2007, 1:07 am Post subject:

Real worchestershire sauce contains fish and therefore can't be used with poultry or beef.

Moderator Joined: Dec 26 2005 Age: 33 Posts: 11430

It depends. . . many people say that you can use Heinz b/c the percentage of anchovies is so low.