How To Make Soup in 30 Minutes or Less

Posted by Matt on January 18th, 2010 at 11:30am

Nothing beats a tasty spoonful of a homemade soup recipe. Unfortunately, most homemade soups require you to spend hours in the kitchen. If you want soup but don’t have hours to spare from your busy schedule to make it from scratch, then follow our  tips to learn how to cook soup in 30 minutes or less. With these shortcuts, in no time you can make a homemade soup recipe you can be proud of. The FaveDiets blog has also compiled a list of our favorite quick healthy soup recipes from the blogosphere.

5 Tips  For Quick Soup Recipe Success:

Use a Convenience Base: Homemade stocks takes hours upon hours to make. Store-bought broths and stocks, as the soup base, add more flavor than just using water and are more convenient than homemade stock. In a pinch, bouillon cubes and simple canned soups work as respectable and convenient bases for a quick soup recipe.

Go With Pre-Cut Veggies: Save yourself precious minutes by letting others do the prep work for you and get frozen or canned vegetables. Pre-cut veggies are processed soon after picking, meaning canned and frozen veggies are just as tasty as fresh vegetables from the store.

Think Small: For a quick soup, smaller the pieces of food means a shorter the cooking time. Use pre-cut vegetables or cut your vegetables small. Choose small pasta over larger noodles. Cut up meat into one inch cubes, and cut up harder vegetables like carrots and potatoes even smaller.

Keep It Simple: Fewer ingredients in the soup means there is less physical soup to cook. Fewer ingredients also means less prep work, which further shortens the time needed to soup.

Quick Cooking Methods: If any ingredients need to be cooked beforehand, use the microwave to speed things up. For a hot soup, try a pressure cooker. Another option is to avoid the cooking process altogether and make a chilled soup.

Quick Soup Recipe Ideas:

Quick Coconut Potato Herb Soup courtesy Cindalou’s Kitchen Blues: The recipe uses a blender to shorten the prep work involved.

Quick Pinto Bean Soup with Chorizo from My Colombian Recipes: Canned beans cut down on cooking time.

Collard Greens and Lentil Soup courtesy Mindful Plate: To cut down on cooking time, this recipe sautes the vegetables first before including them in the soup.

Tricia’s Minestrone from Tongue In Cheek Cooking: This recipe is terrific because it’s cheap, easy and delicious.

(Italian) Wonton Soup from Foodival: The many flavors of this soup recipe come together to form an unusual yet tasty soup.

The Best Quick Chicken Noodle Soup courtesy Forkable: With pre-made stock and Spaetzle noodles, this surprisingly simple soup comes together in no time.

Korean Kimchi and Tuna Soup from My Favorite Recipes: Canned tuna adds a delighful touch to this quick and easy soup recipe.

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