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Quick
& Simple:
Soups
to Thaw the Winter Chill
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If you’re still trying to thaw from this year’s
blustery winter, take comfort in the fact that the first day of
spring is less than a month away. In the meantime, to help you
make it through the short, but all-too-long month of February,
we’ve included some quick, cheap and easy soups that you
and your roommates are bound to warm up to.
Meaty:
Quick
Italian Soup
Chicken
Soup
30
Minute Chili
Vegetarian:
Crazy
Mixed-Up Carrot Soup
Golden
Potato Soup
Presto
Tomato-Macaroni Soup
Cheap
'n Easy Bean and Hominy Stew
Meaty:
Quick
Italian Soup
Ingredients
1
lb. ground beef
1 medium onion -- chopped
1 package Hamburger Helper (or equivalent no-name brand) mix for
Lasagne
5 cups water
1 can (or frozen equivalent) whole-kernel corn, (8-1/4 oz.)
1 can diced tomatoes, (16 oz.)
1 small zucchini - sliced
2 tblsp. grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
Preparation
Brown
ground beef and onion in a 4-5 qt saucepan; drain.
Stir in Sauce Mix, water, corn (with liquid), tomatoes (with liquid),
and cheese. Heat to boiling, stirrings constantly. Reduce heat.
Cover and simmer, stirring occasionally for 10 minutes.
Stir in noodles from the Hamburger Helper and zucchini. Cover
and cook 10 minutes longer.
Sprinkle each serving with grated Parmesan cheese if desired.
Yield:
9-1/2 cups
Chicken
Soup
Ingredients
2
- 14 ½ oz cans chicken broth
1/8 tsp. ground black pepper
2 large carrots -- diced
2 celery stalks -- diced
2 skinless, boneless chicken-breast halves
1 tblsp. Cooking oil
1 small onion -- chopped
Preparation
In a 4-quart saucepan, heat up oil. Add onion and cook until tender
and lightly browned, about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add
carrots, celery, chicken broth, pepper and 3 cups water. Heat
to boiling over high heat. Add chicken to saucepan and reduce
heat to low. Cover saucepan and simmer 8 to 10 minutes, until
chicken just loses its pink colour throughout and carrots and
celery are tender. Remove saucepan from heat. Using slotted spoon
or tongs, remove chicken from saucepan to plate; cool slightly
until easy to handle. With fingers, pull chicken into shreds.
Return chicken to soup and heat thoroughly.
Cooking
time: 50 minutes
30
Minute Chili
Ingredients
Hot pepper sauce to taste
1 tblsp. chili powder (or to taste)
1 lb. ground beef
1 can kidney beans (12 oz.)
1 large onion -- chopped
1 tsp. salt
1 can tomato soup -- undiluted
Preparation
Brown the meat in a pan for about 10 minutes. (If the meat is
frozen, cook longer.)
Add all other ingredients and let simmer for 30 minutes. Your
choice of hot sauce may be added to taste.
Vegetarian:
Crazy
Mixed-Up Carrot Soup
Ingredients
1-1/2
cups cooked carrots -- diced
1/2-cup milk
1/2-cup cream
1-cup chicken broth
1/2 small onion -- chopped
1 dash nutmeg
1 dash cinnamon
1 tblsp. brown sugar
Preparation
Use
regular or hand-held blender to purée all ingredients.
Pour mixture into saucepan and heat well.
Yield:
4 servings
Golden
Potato Soup
Ingredients
1
lb. potatoes -- cubed
1 large carrot -- diced
1 large onion -- chopped
2 cups chicken broth (divided use)
1/2-cup milk
1 tsp. white Worcestershire sauce (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
-- Microwave Directions
Place
potatoes, carrot, onion and 1/2 cup broth in a 2-quart microweavable
bowl. Cover with plastic wrap, venting sprout area. Stirring halfway
through, microwave on high for 8 minutes, or until vegetables
are tender.
Use a blender to purée mixture with remaining broth, milk
and Worcestershire sauce. Add salt and pepper.
Microwave on high 2 minutes or until heated to desired temperature.
Yield:
1 generous quart
Presto Tomato-Macaroni
Soup
Ingredients
1-cup
macaroni
1 can Tomato soup (8 oz.)
Sea salt pepper
Parmesan cheese (optional)
Preparation
Cook macaroni in boiling water for 8 minutes, or until tender.
While pasta is cooking, heat up Tomato soup in a 4 -5 qt saucepan.
When pasta is done, drain it well and stir it in the tomato soup.
Optional:
Grate on Parmesan cheese as a garnish
Cheap 'n
Easy Bean and Hominy Stew
Ingredients
1
can hominy
1 can pinto beans
1 can garbanzo beans
1 can kidney beans
6 oz. tomato sauce
1 package chili/taco/mexican seasoning
Preparation
Mix and heat. As easy as that!
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