French Pumpkin Soup

This creamy soup can easily be made vegan. I simply substituted oat cream for the half and half, replaced the chicken broth with vegetable broth, and left out the butter and cheese toast.

French Lentil Soup

This recipe uses red lentils, leeks and carrots. It comes from Short-Cut Vegetarian by Lorna Sass.

Italian Pumpkin Cabbage Soup

I had cabbage left over from rumbledethumps, and pumpkin left over from olan, so I looked for a recipe which would use both, and found one. Naturally I replaced the lard in the original recipe with vegetable oil to make it vegan.

Raspberry Soup

This is similar to the mixed berry and blueberry soups I made.

To make it, I simmered raspberries in water until they had fallen apart. I then strained the mixture because of the raspberry seeds. I added lemon juice, then sweetened to taste with agave and stevia. I prefer the soup to be tart so I didn’t sweeten it much. I then thickened it with cornstarch and let it cool before serving it with oat cream.

 

Chickpea Tomato Cabbage Soup

Here’s the recipe. Naturally, I made a few changes. First, I halved the recipe. Second, I used canned chickpeas, as I had a tin which was about to expire. Third, I used the Chinese cabbage I had left over in place of green cabbage. Fourth, I did not add the water that the cabbage was cooked in, but drained the cabbage before adding it. No doubt some vitamins are lost this way, but it also serves to diminish taste of sulpher that would otherwise come from cooking the cabbage a long time. Of the options given, I used carrot, added rosemary, and used water rather than stock.

Sprouted Mung Bean and Glass Noodle Soup

I had some mung beans left from my last sprouting, so I decided to riff off of mung dip yum. I made a lot of substitutions to work with what I had on hand: a Madame Jeanette chili instead of a Jalapeno, soy sauce instead of tamari, leftover peanut sauce from my lettuce wraps instead of creamy pecan sauce, Chinese cabbage as the green leafy vegetable, glass noodles instead of rice noodles, and different proportions of most of the main ingredients!

I liked this because the taste of the bean sprouts was mild and the broth had a lot of flavour.

Mustikkakeitto

In making this Finnish blueberry soup, I used only 1/4 cup of sugar, and used stevia to add to the sweetness. I did not include lemon zest. I served it with oat cream.

Instead of throwing away the fibre, I ate it warm with a dash of stevia as a snack.

Marjakeitto

I enjoyed the Estonian rhubarb soup so much that I decided to make a Finnish berry soup, which I haven’t had in a few years. I used a mixture of blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. No recipe is really required, but here is one. I sweetened mine with a mix of stevia and apple-based fruit sweetener.

I topped it with oat cream.

Spinach Mushroom Soup

I used king oyster mushroom, rehydrated black fungus, rehydrated Shiitake mushroom, and chestnut mushrooms in this soup. I opted for vegetable stock and green onions. I also took the opportunity to use up some frozen spinach instead of adding fresh spinach.

Rhubarb Kissell

This simple Estonian rhubarb soup can also be served with yoghurt, although I have chosen to top it with oat cream. Because it has so few ingredients, the taste of the rhubarb really comes through.

I think when I make this again – which I plan to, as I really liked it – I will try substituting some of the sugar with stevia to make it healthier.