Anonymous wrote:Does it need to be just soup or can it be accompanied by a simple salad or grill cheese?

Who are these people you are cooking for? Teens, friends, boomers, obese people with huge appetites? Soup is really filling for thin people but maybe not for fat people.

NP and the three people in my life who are overtly “soup isn’t a meal” people are all very fit. What’s your problem?

Thick split pea soup with ham or a hearty ham and nean soup can be a meal - I serve with crusty bread.

Chili - can be turkey or chicken or beef or veggie - with various toppings, onions, cheese, sour cream, chips or bread also cam be a meal

Tonkatsu
Good Ramen ..not the $1 kind
Pho

Does it need to be just soup or can it be accompanied by a simple salad or grill cheese?

Who are these people you are cooking for? Teens, friends, boomers, obese people with huge appetites? Soup is really filling for thin people but maybe not for fat people.

Clam chowder
Baked potato soup

Served with salad and bread

Never just soup

Soups with a lot of beans are pretty filling. So lentil, pea soup, (assuming you make the type that are thick, not very liquid ones). Chili.

I like the Marcella Hazan chickpea and tomato soup with either rice or pasta.

You have to have meat and/or pasta, ideally both. Like a (God help me) lasagna soup or like an Italian wedding soup with some orzo floating around in there.

Cheesy Chicken Chowder

2 cups fat-free chicken broth
2 cups diced potatoes
1 cup diced carrots
1 cup diced celery
1/2 cup diced onion
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 cup margarine -- (1/2 stick)
1/4 cup flour
2 cups milk
8 ounces cheddar cheese -- shredded
2 cups cooked chicken -- diced, can use ham or turkey


In 4-qt. saucepan, bring chicken broth to a boil. Reduce heat and add potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, salt and pepper; simmer, covered, 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, melt butter; add flour and mix well. Gradually stir in milk; cook over low heat until slightly thickened. Stir in cheese and cook until melted. Add cheese mixture and chicken to vegetable mixture. Cook, stirring, over low heat until all ingredients are heated through.

Lentil and Italian Sausage.

If I'm serving for just my family yeah, it might be chili with some toppings and chips or chicken noodle and bread and butter.

But for guests or a very hungry family, I will do a simple green salad (lettuce, green onion, cilantro, corn, avocado, red pepper for chili...basic green salad for chicken noodle, etc...) and bread and butter or olive oil or even garlic bread or cornbread, and a plate with some cheese chunks or perhaps even small sandwiches if it goes.

Can you do a plate of sliders on kings hawaiian rolls real quick in the oven, and a veggie tray?

For me, chilli then French onion.

You need to make it basically into a stew consistency, and then I'll agree with you.

When I serve most soups I include sides, like salad and/or bread, with the exception of hearty Asian soups like pho and ramen. I include a lot of variety in the add-ons for those, lots of vegetables in addition to the noodle y and broths.

Chili is another one that can stand alone, but still is better with some chips and cornbread and salad.

When I eat soup on my own, like for lunch, I fully count it as a meal. But I do more for company and my hungry teens.

I don't know if it will convert someone but this is a meal in my house. It's Rachel Ray's Portuguese kale soup. It is so hearty. Add a crusty bread and a salad and that's dinner.


https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/portuguese-chourico-and-kale-soup-recipe-1939580

Title says it all. What soup do you think qualifies? I’ve got a crockpot and a stew pot to make soup in so this will be homemade.