Carol Tapp's budget-busting soup
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Carol Tapp's soup is cheap and you can make up a big batch to warm up when you want it - delicious and good for you!.
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Cooking time: 1 hr
and 30mins -
Serves: 4+
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Skill level: Easy peasy
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Costs: Cheap as chips
Ingredients
- Bones of one leftover roast chicken
- 500g mixed lentils
- 1 x tin of condensed tomato soup
- Salt and pepper to season
Mixed vegetables:
- 1 carrot, finely chopped
- 1 stick of celery, finely chopped
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 leek, finely chopped
Method
- Soak a bag of mixed lentils overnight. The next day sieve and put to one side.
- After your roast chicken dinner don't discard the bones - put them in an extra large pan, cover with water, boil, then simmer for about an hour until you have a stock.
- Take the bones out of the stock then add in the lentils and mixed vegetables - simmer until veg is cooked.
- Put the soup (which should not resemble a thick broth) into tin foil containers and cool. Cover and freeze.
- When you need it, defrost and add condensed tomato soup with a touch of salt and pepper then re-heat.
Nutritional information
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.
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