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    just made this soup for lunch and its delicious

    courgette potato and cheddar soup


    Ingredients

    500g potatoes, unpeeled and roughly chopped
    2 vegetable stock cubes
    1kg courgettes, roughly chopped
    bunch spring onion, sliced - save 1 for serving, if eating straight away
    100g extra-mature cheddar or vegetarian alternative, grated, plus a little extra to serve
    good grating fresh nutmeg, plus extra to serve

    Method

    Put the potatoes in a large pan with just enough water to cover them and crumble in the stock cubes. Bring to the boil, then cover and cook for 5 mins. Add the courgettes, put the lid back on and cook for 5 mins more. Throw in the spring onions, cover and cook for a final 5 mins.
    Take off the heat, then stir in the cheese and season with the nutmeg, salt and pepper. Whizz to a thick soup, adding more hot water until you get the consistency you like. Serve scattered with extra grated cheddar, spring onions and nutmeg or pepper. Or cool and freeze in freezer bags or containers with good lids for up to 3 months.

  • #2
    Sounds lovely!

    Will add that to my list of ways to use up courgettes!

    I tried Happiness Soup recently and it was lovely... great if you have yellow courgettes!

    Happiness Soup

    Ingredients

    500g yellow courgette
    Zest and juice of one lemon
    3 tablespoons of olive oil
    1 teaspoon of turmeric
    1 litre of chicken stock
    100g basmati rice
    Salt and pepper to taste


    Method

    1. Wash the courgettes but don’t peel. Finely dice (mine ended up a bit under 1cm ish
    size pieces) and put in a pan with the olive oil and lemon zest and stir together. Cook
    gently for about 5 mins (only gently else the olive oil burns).

    2. Stir in the turmeric then add the stock and lemon juice, drop in the rice and cook
    uncovered for 10-20 mins until the rice is tender. (I stirred a few times to stop anything
    catching on the bottom of the pan).

    3. Let it cool down a bit before serving as it’s best served warm not hot.

    Easy peasy and tasty!

    I made some yesterday and added some left over roast chicken and chorizo... mmmmmm!
    http://vegblogs.co.uk/overthyme/

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    • #3
      will have a go at that

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      • #4
        After many years of trying to think of ways to use the inevitabe glut of courgettes I bought myself a book:
        "What will I do with all those courgettes" by Elaine Borish. Perhaps not as adventuresome as I had hoped but a good standby book at this time of year.
        Thanks for the recipes all of you, will be trying them out I'm sure.

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        • #5
          how about courgette cake . i have made it and given it to people and they say its nice but as soon as i say its got courgettes in they say ugh.
          its lovely gonna make one tomorrow
          here is recipe
          Ingredients

          3 eggs
          400g caster sugar
          200g melted margarine or cooking oil
          1 teaspoon vanilla extract
          500g courgette, grated
          500g flour
          150g ground nuts
          1 teaspoon salt
          2 teaspoons baking powder
          3 teaspoon cinnamon


          rep:15min › Cook:1hr › Ready in:1hr15min

          Grease a large loaf tin or two small square tins with butter. Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4.
          Stir eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla and courgette together well. In a second bowl of flour, mix the nuts, salt, baking powder and cinnamon, and gradually stir into the eggs and courgette mixture.
          Pour mixture into prepared loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for 60-80 minutes.
          Allow to cool in the tin and, if desired, dust with icing sugar.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by flopsy59 View Post
            just made this soup for lunch and its delicious

            courgette potato and cheddar soup
            the missus made this yesterday - she loves it! it's all in the freezer and she'll be taking soup to work when the weather gets colder - and she made it with home grown spuds, home grown courgettes, home grown spring onions!
            http://MeAndMyVeggies.blogspot.com

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            • #7
              I tend to make courgette bread (savoury) then I can freeze it and just get it out when needed! I just google a recipe and make as and when I can! Love the sound of the potato and cheese recipe! there's nothing that cant be improved with CHEESE!
              http://meandtwoveg.blogspot.com

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              • #8
                Originally posted by flopsy59 View Post
                just made this soup for lunch and its delicious

                courgette potato and cheddar soup


                Ingredients

                500g potatoes, unpeeled and roughly chopped
                2 vegetable stock cubes
                1kg courgettes, roughly chopped
                bunch spring onion, sliced - save 1 for serving, if eating straight away
                100g extra-mature cheddar or vegetarian alternative, grated, plus a little extra to serve
                good grating fresh nutmeg, plus extra to serve

                Method

                Put the potatoes in a large pan with just enough water to cover them and crumble in the stock cubes. Bring to the boil, then cover and cook for 5 mins. Add the courgettes, put the lid back on and cook for 5 mins more. Throw in the spring onions, cover and cook for a final 5 mins.
                Take off the heat, then stir in the cheese and season with the nutmeg, salt and pepper. Whizz to a thick soup, adding more hot water until you get the consistency you like. Serve scattered with extra grated cheddar, spring onions and nutmeg or pepper. Or cool and freeze in freezer bags or containers with good lids for up to 3 months.

                Finally got around to trying this recipe today, tried some at lunchtime and liked it so much I made a second batch for the freezer this afternoon

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                • #9
                  Not spotted this recipe before so I've saved it to my vine blog for later.
                  Location....East Midlands.

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                  • #10
                    Thanks for bumping this, Chestnut. I like the sound of the happiness soup and will give that a go.

                    As an aside, I tend not to use Cheddar in soup as I like something a little bit more acidic like blue cheese or soft goat's cheese. Also delicious.

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