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Third Day of Christmas Soup




Source of Recipe


made it up based on a minestrone concept


Recipe Introduction


On boxing day you are still telling yourself you will eat all the awesome leftovers out of the fridge. After a day of mainly living on booze, chocolates and gingerbread you need something different to do with leftovers. Here is one you can try:
if you dont have an ingredient skip it, or try something similar. If you dont have fresh veggies use frozen, steamed or even tinned


List of Ingredients




1 onion, finely chopped (or use shallots, spring onions,leeks whatever you have)
lots of cloves of garlic
1-2 carrots
1-2 stalks celery (capsicum might also be nice here)
selection of fresh and dried herbs (I used parsley, sage, marjoram and thyme but anything like basil, oregano, dill or whatever is fine) I also threw in some nutmeg powder with the herbs
salt and pepper
1-2 cups Christmas meat, chopped (eg turkey, chicken, ham, pork or a combination)
1-2 cups veggies (eg corn, peas, beans, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, pumpkin, - some roasted vegies might even be suitable)
2-6 chopped tomatoes and/or tomato paste, puree or tinned tomatoes
1 cup soup mix (lentils and barley) or similar
1/2 cup dried pasta
slurp of leftover wine
stock or water (if you are clever make stock from veggie offcuts, bones etc alternatively leftover stock from making gravy is fine too)
olive oil and butter (the latter is optional)

Recipe



Precook the soup mix in lots of water with salt and if you like garlic

heat oil, add in butter and over low heat saute onion, garlic and tomato.

When aromatic add in carrot and celery and any hard veg that needs a long cooking time. Keep cooking until transparent and fragrant. Add in lots of salt and pepper and the dried herbs (and nutmeg). Give it a good stir.

Turn up to high and add wine (my hand slipped and added quite a bit but even 1/2 a cup is good). Let the alcohol boil off. Add the meat.

Add stock and when hot add the pasta and vegies that dont need much cooking time. Cook about 10 minutes until pasta done but not soggy. Add in fresh herbs and drained soup mix.

Serve with leftover nice Christmas bread and posh cheeses. Maybe heat the bread and cheese in the oven to toast and melt it.