To make a really good fish soup you need to start with a really good fish broth. I like to use fish heads and frames, buy them from your fishmonger they are usually quite inexpensive. It’s really worth the small amount of effort to make fish broth and I generally make 4 to 5 litres…
Category: Soup
Chorizo and Cavelero Nero soup
This spicy soup is a traditional Portuguese dish made with lots of dark greens and spicy sausage. Caldo verde, as it is called, is eaten a lot both in Portugal and in Brazil and the recipe varies from region to region. I was first introduced to this soup by my English friends Linda and Tin,…
Curried chicken coconut soup
This curried chicken coconut soup is so quick and easy to make once you have your chicken broth made and you have some curry paste to hand. It’s worth making a large batch of chicken bone broth and then freezing it for later uses. This soup recipe just needs one litre of broth. You can…
Beety McBeetface Soup
This glorious soup is so pretty, the colour so intense that it’s hard to think of it as food but it is packed full of nutritional goodness and has a deep and complex yummyness that is totally delicious. The toasted fragrant fennel seeds and the bouncy orange zest perfectly compliment the sweet earthy beetroot. As…
Chicken broth soup
This is a very clean and fresh tasting soup but so nourishing with its chicken bone broth base.ingredients for the broth base. two small chickens or one large. 2 onions. 2 carrots. 1 teaspoon black pepper corns. Cut the chickens into pieces. I like to cut the breasts off for easy early extraction and then…
All of the good things soup
This soup is packed with almost everything your body needs. This recipe make a large amount that keeps for 5-6 days in the fridge, we have a cup every night until it’s all gone for its nourishing and healing benefits. ingredients. about one and a half litres of bone broth . Packed with joint protecting collagen,…
Bone broth
To make a really good bone broth you first need really good bones. Get a good mixture of marrow bones, gelatinous joint bones and meaty bones. We are lucky in New Zealand because our beef and lamb is grass fed, you really do need grass fed bones to make nutritious broth. You can also add…
Pumpkin and cashew soup
A lovely creamy Autumn soup, the cashews make it creamy without dairy. Ingredients 1/2 large pumpkin or 1 whole small pumpkin. 2 onions. 1 stick celery. 1 cup cashews soaked for 4 or more hours in water. piece fresh turmeric. piece fresh ginger. 1 litre of stock either homemade or good bouillon cubes. bunch of…