Soups

The rice is boiled in a separate pan for Hairy Bikers mulligatawny soup, then stirred in only at the end. The recipe is from Mums Still Know Best, a curried vegetable soup with carrot, celery, sweet potato and apple. It serves four at about 295 calories a bowl and takes just over an hour. They …

Hairy Bikers celeriac and apple soup pairs 750g of celeriac with three eating apples and finishes with crispy bacon. It comes from Meat Feasts, one page before their pea and ham soup, and serves six at about 310 calories a bowl. Allow an hour and a half, because celeriac takes a while to peel. They …

Hairy Bikers tomato soup with fresh tomatoes is one swap away from the tinned original, a kilo of ripe tomatoes replacing two tins. The recipe is Cream of Tomato Soup from Mums Still Know Best, with onion, garlic, dried herbs and double cream. It serves four at about 290 calories a bowl, and takes just …

Hairy Bikers parsnip and apple soup matches its parsnips gram for gram with Bramley apples, 600g of each. Most recipes call for one or two apples, so this is a much sharper, more apple-led soup. It comes from British Classics and makes six bowls at around 215 calories, in just over an hour. They write …

The mushrooms get grated, not sliced, and that is what makes Hairy Bikers mushroom soup different. It comes from Mums Still Know Best, built on 300g of mushrooms, 450ml of stock and 450ml of milk. Four bowls take 40 minutes and come to about 205 calories each. They write in Mums Still Know Best that …

Two things carry Hairy Bikers broccoli and stilton soup: 500g of broccoli and 125g of Stilton. The rest of the base comes from One Pot Wonders, which is onion, celery, a floury potato and 800ml of stock. It serves four at about 300 calories a bowl and takes 45 minutes. Blue cheese and broccoli is …

This Hairy Bikers carrot and coriander soup follows the soup method from their British Classics cookbook. It uses the same butter base, the same long fry and the same splash of milk at the end. Six bowls come to about 165 calories each. The spicing comes from their Mediterranean Adventure book, where carrots take crushed …

This Hairy Bikers lentil and bacon soup comes from British Classics, which claims twenty minutes. It is closer to thirty, though, once you have chopped everything. It uses red lentils, smoked back bacon, sweet potato and red pepper, and serves six at 195 calories a bowl. British Classics calls it “central heating in a bowl”. …

Hairy Bikers pea and ham soup is a thick, rough blended soup of split peas and a whole ham hock. Meat Feasts calls it ham and pea soup, so a bowl lands near 300 calories after two hours, once the peas have soaked overnight. Si and Dave call it “a velvet caress for your belly”, …