Seasoning Soup

[whatgoingon]

I made vegetable soup but it is missing something. How do you figure out what to add?

[TheAwfulToad]

Beef stock works a treat

Seriously, it's probably the process rather than the ingredients. Start with a roasted vegetable base for your stock: roughly chop some onions, garlic, celery, carrots, parsnips and tomatoes, add a generous slug of butter and olive oil, and roast until they're nicely browned (turn occasionally). You need to peel and core the parsnips but not the other things. Takes a couple of hours. Deglaze the pan with some water and throw everything into a saucepan. Simmer until you have a rich stock (about another 2 hours). Then either discard the veg or trim off the ugly bits and blend (they won't have much remaining flavour after this treatment, but you might want them for texture). Freeze and use as a base for subsequent soup-making exercises.

Make sure you're adding enough salt and pepper to the finished result.

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Hi judyagasco,

Firstly as you've said that you don't like cooking so well done for making some veggie soup.

It sound to me that you soup lacks seasoning, I use coriander, cumin, ginger, turmeric and black pepper. Sometimes I'll add chilli's and or paprika with herbs like oregano, loose coriander. And celery salt compliment a soup as does Tamari.

Instead of croutons I'll gently fry some chick peas so they're lovely and crispy or sliced mushrooms and put either on top of the soup before serving. Here's a link to a home made soup with chick peas:

healthunlocked.com/healthye...

And good luck with future soups, I love home made soups... 😊

[BadHare]

Try adding some nutritional yeast which you should be able to find at your local wholefood shop.

It adds B vitamins as well as a slightly cheesey flavour, though it's a staple vegan product for adding B12 ( only the blue tub type has this, & doesn't taste different to the brown tub version).

I purposely underseason soups & stews whilst cooking as I add nutritional yeast at the end. You may need to add a little more more water too, as it acts as a thickener.

[QueenTea]

I find marigold bouillon really good as a stock and it adds flavour - very simple☺

[Agoodenough]

We find adding a good spoon of miso to vegetable soup is great. Also as another person has commented nutritional yeast is good to sprinkle on top, also toasted seeds 🌞

[deejames]

Try adding parsley / coriander . Herbs make a big difference. Or blend half of soup and leave rest whole.

Dee