Brian's thick meat & vegetable soup

Brian's thick meat & vegetable soup

Brian Murdoch serves this to football fans to warm them up in the cold - a traditional favourite

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 3 ½ hours
Freezable

Method

  1. To make the stock, rinse the bones and put them, with their meat, in a large pot with 2 litres water, the onions and carrots. Season. Bring to the boil and simmer for 2-3 hours.
  2. Remove the bones, which should be free of any meat, and discard. Sieve the stock, collecting the liquid in a pan - you'll need 11/2 litres. Coarsely liquidise the meat and veg from the sieve, having removed any skin or gristle.
  3. To make the soup, roughly chop the vegetables in a food processor. Put it all in the large pot, add the stock, the liquidised meat and veg, a pinch of mixed herbs and the minced meat. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 30 minutes, until the minced meat is cooked through. Before serving, finely liquidise half the soup then add it to the remaining coarse, chunky soup. For extra meat flavour, add 1 tsp meat stock such as Bovril. Season
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Stock

For the stock, use fresh, meaty bones from the butcher. Pork and lamb rib bones are best. Or you could start with 11/2 litres of ready-made stock. Serve the soup with a sprinkling of black pepper and a chunk of crusty, just-baked bread.

Per serving

146 kcalories, protein 17.9g, carbohydrate 16.4g, fat 1.4 g, saturated fat 0.3g, fibre 3.6g, salt 0.95 g

Recipe from olive magazine, March 2006.

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  • 29 November 2007

    brian jenkins rated and commented on this recipe

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    hope you enjoy

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    24 January 2008

    dan rated and commented on this recipe

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    your soup looks rank the presentation needs work

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  • 27 June 2008

    PoshPaws commented on this recipe

    There appears to be carrots and peas in the photograph, but not in the ingredients list? I'm guessing its a "do your own thing" recipe where veggies are concerned!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 3 ½ hours
Freezable

Ingredients

  • 1 large potato
  • 1 small leek
  • 50g mushrooms
  • 1 small parsnip
  • pinch mixed herb
  • 250g minced chicken , beef or lamb
  • Bovril
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Per serving

146 kcalories, protein 17.9g, carbohydrate 16.4g, fat 1.4 g, saturated fat 0.3g, fibre 3.6g, salt 0.95 g

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