A few days I posted in this thread that I'd post whatever vegetarian meal I cooked next. I ended up cooking a very simple, yet filling vegetable soup (inspiration came from /ck/ of all places). Not much more to say, so on to the recipe:
2 onions
3 carrots
2 potatoes
1 paprika, roasted (~15 minutes @ 250°C) and peeled
2 cloves garlic
2 tbsp butter
1.5l vegetable broth (I used water + broth cubes)
I recon this is about four servings, unless you're a tall dude like me in which case it's only good for about two.
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Ye ingredients:
The boil:
Ping chickabiddy
This looks good. I have a question though....how filling is soup really? I never really consider soup a meal and usually end up hungry or not fully satisfied in an hour. Am I doing it wrong? PS: They embed if you don't make them a link. So just paste the imgur link underneath your title like this: Ye ingredients:
Well, to make this a bit thicker (which usually tricks me into thinking it's more filling) you could make a roux. All you need is a couple tbs of flour in between sweating the veggies and pouring in the broth. Mix in and brown up the flour a bit, this helps give a nutty flavor the more you brown but thickens less the more you brown. If you're not on a diet this then makes a pretty good pot pie filling, too (or just put in a ceramic oven safe bowl and put a square of puff pastry on top at 400 F, perhaps a bit of egg wash for color). If it's too soupy you can also experiment with adding noodles or rice to suck up excess moisture and give the whole thing a bit more structure. I'd also probably add celery in the sweat (because France) and mushrooms (both because I love mushrooms and the earthy/savory flavor helps it not be so leafy/veggie/unsatisfying).
The embedding isn't exactly clear from the markup box: Back to soup: it seems adding potatoes really thickens soup up. I'm going to try increasing the ratio of potatoes, and making bigger batches.
Line 1 and 3 should have examples. And it'd be even better if the box itself also used markup :) URLs become links.
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How many people are you trying to feed? That amount of ingredients might be good for 2-4 bowls of soup. This recipe I posted makes a lot of soup that's really filling. Soup is like other food. More stuff=more filling. If it has a lot of broth, but not a whole lot of stuff, then yeah, you'll get hungry quicker. As a single (and broke) dude, my strategy is to make really dense soups that I can then stretch out by adding broth.