soft soups
April 25, 2021 5:15 PM Subscribe
Please share recipes for soups that are vegetarian, soft, fairly mild in flavor, and have no onions or garlic.
Stuff I can make for a friend recovering from surgery who has the above requirements.
Thank you!
Stuff I can make for a friend recovering from surgery who has the above requirements.
Thank you!
Something I often make for friends who can't have onions/garlic is broccoli cheese soup, because it totally doesn't need it. However! It's almost impossible to find vegetable or not-chicken bouillon or stock that doesn't have one or the other, so it IS worth making yourself a batch of quick-stock of other aromatics like celery, sweet pepper, and carrot (lots).
There is every level of recipe out there from surprisingly slim on fat (and cheese! it doesn't actually need to be very much) to really rich, so you may want to search based on any other restrictions you are concerned about. A big trick to smooth non-stringy B&C is to use sodium citrate OR a cheese product that contains it, like velveeta or american cheese. It doesn't need to be all the cheese, just enough of it to get the emulsifiers, so don't be shocked when you see those in otherwise "nice" recipes. The other route you can go is a roux-based soup, as the roux will prevent most stringiness. Any BC soup can be blended with a stick blender to get rid of broccoli chunks, which is how I prefer it.
This vegetarian avgolemono soup will be fine without the onion, just skip it. You can thicken/sturdy-up this soup with rice, orzo, tiny shells, diced potato, etc.
This low-FODMAP vegan tomato-based soup is good, and can also be beefed up with additional starches. If your friend isn't specifically low-FODMAP you can use an easier green than collards, like frozen spinach.
posted by Lyn Never at 6:08 PM on April 25, 2021 [5 favorites]
There is every level of recipe out there from surprisingly slim on fat (and cheese! it doesn't actually need to be very much) to really rich, so you may want to search based on any other restrictions you are concerned about. A big trick to smooth non-stringy B&C is to use sodium citrate OR a cheese product that contains it, like velveeta or american cheese. It doesn't need to be all the cheese, just enough of it to get the emulsifiers, so don't be shocked when you see those in otherwise "nice" recipes. The other route you can go is a roux-based soup, as the roux will prevent most stringiness. Any BC soup can be blended with a stick blender to get rid of broccoli chunks, which is how I prefer it.
This vegetarian avgolemono soup will be fine without the onion, just skip it. You can thicken/sturdy-up this soup with rice, orzo, tiny shells, diced potato, etc.
This low-FODMAP vegan tomato-based soup is good, and can also be beefed up with additional starches. If your friend isn't specifically low-FODMAP you can use an easier green than collards, like frozen spinach.
posted by Lyn Never at 6:08 PM on April 25, 2021 [5 favorites]
This vegan cream of tomato soup is my current favorite comfort soup. Just leave out the onions and garlic or replace with celery. The chickpea croutons are optional.
posted by FencingGal at 6:54 PM on April 25, 2021
posted by FencingGal at 6:54 PM on April 25, 2021
First soup that comes to mind is Thai Carrot Soup. Here's a recipe that would need replacing chicken stock with veggie stock, and fish sauce for... I dunno, soy sauce? Or some kind of liquid aminos if that's an ingredient you keep around.
If you want to boost the aromatic angle a little I'd throw in a stalk of celery. The whole thing ends up in the blender at the end so you don't have chop anything, really; just snap the celery into chunks. This recipe's light on process since it's for one of those blenders that cooks food, but this is all made of raw ingredients, so blend and then heat for your friend.
posted by Sunburnt at 11:40 PM on April 25, 2021
If you want to boost the aromatic angle a little I'd throw in a stalk of celery. The whole thing ends up in the blender at the end so you don't have chop anything, really; just snap the celery into chunks. This recipe's light on process since it's for one of those blenders that cooks food, but this is all made of raw ingredients, so blend and then heat for your friend.
posted by Sunburnt at 11:40 PM on April 25, 2021
5 potatoes peeled and diced, 5 carrots (same), 4 stalks celery, 2 chopped tomatoes, salt and pepper to taste - boil half-covered for about 30 mins at medium heat, blend (with liquid) with a food mill or food processor, return to pot, stir in probably 1/2 a cup of butter (or slightly less or more). Garnish if you like with parsley. One of my favourite childhood soups. Could add parsnip if the person likes it. It’s good with crusty bread (like I guess all soups).
posted by cotton dress sock at 8:44 AM on April 26, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by cotton dress sock at 8:44 AM on April 26, 2021 [2 favorites]
Canned pumpkin, coconut milk, curry, minced ginger, lime juice!
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 10:06 PM on April 26, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 10:06 PM on April 26, 2021 [1 favorite]
This may be more involved than you want to get, but Massel 7's stock cubes have no onions or garlic and reconstitute into quite good broth.
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posted by Mr Yak at 2:32 PM on April 27, 2021
I've only been able to source them on Amazon in a vast quantity: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HH1YG0/
posted by Mr Yak at 2:32 PM on April 27, 2021
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posted by Iris Gambol at 5:37 PM on April 25, 2021