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Saviolo

(3,270 posts)
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 02:37 PM Sep 2020

Homemade Concentrated Soup Base (plus chicken noodle soup) Recipe

Soup season is coming up! Temperatures are dropping and everyone wants that warm comfort food. This week we're doing what is essentially a homemade soup base concentrate that you can turn into lots of different kinds of soup. It's got all the same basic recipes of any other soup base (with the addition of leek and potato), and comes out quite thick. To make it into soup, all you need to do is add more stock and whatever ingredients to want to go in that wouldn't freeze well. So, we added roasted chicken, tomato, and zucchini.

It's very much an easy plug-and-play recipe. You can just toss whatever ingredients you want in to fit your flavour profile. The concentrate stores very well, and you can freeze it to keep it fresher longer. It's not an ideal soup base for cream soups, but it is very versatile.

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Homemade Concentrated Soup Base (plus chicken noodle soup) Recipe (Original Post) Saviolo Sep 2020 OP
I put Vermouth on my grocery list.🥰 GentryDixon Sep 2020 #1
We love dry vermouth! Saviolo Sep 2020 #2
I've never used it, but tastewise, it sounds like adding Red Wine Vinegar to Clam Chowder. GentryDixon Sep 2020 #3
Yay for FoodWishes and Chef John Saviolo Sep 2020 #4
i always start my soup from scratch. except my faux minestrone. pansypoo53219 Sep 2020 #5
We love minestrone. Saviolo Sep 2020 #6
i am picky. i just make a tomato soup w. onions, celery + gr bell pepper + pasta + spices. pansypoo53219 Sep 2020 #7

Saviolo

(3,270 posts)
2. We love dry vermouth!
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 04:00 PM
Sep 2020

It makes a nice slightly acidic white-wine surrogate without having to open a whole bottle of white wine. Just a little dash makes a big difference in a bunch of recipes. It's one of those things where you don't really taste the vermouth itself, but you'd notice if it were missing.

GentryDixon

(2,944 posts)
3. I've never used it, but tastewise, it sounds like adding Red Wine Vinegar to Clam Chowder.
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 04:55 PM
Sep 2020

I had no idea that little bit of vinegar would make such a difference.

I quite enjoy the recipes you post. Thank you, & Chef John. I love his voice. I have Canadian relatives whom I did not know about until I did my genealogy in 2008.

Saviolo

(3,270 posts)
4. Yay for FoodWishes and Chef John
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 05:39 PM
Sep 2020

Watching his videos inspired us to start our own videos on YouTube.

Saviolo

(3,270 posts)
6. We love minestrone.
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 12:03 AM
Sep 2020

We did a video on it back in October 2018, and I think it may still be our longest ingredient shot of anything we've done on our channel so far.

pansypoo53219

(20,908 posts)
7. i am picky. i just make a tomato soup w. onions, celery + gr bell pepper + pasta + spices.
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 06:10 PM
Sep 2020

made it up cause i had a yellow bell pepper to use. BUT, i have GOOD italian bread. should make the br rice version + dip the bread in it.

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