Click more info link for RECIPE… This delicious soup ticks every Simple Savings box. It’s inexpensive, freezer-friendly and easy to make. Equipment: One large stockpot or saucepan Dessert spoon Measuring cup Potato masher 16 small plastic containers, with lids, for freezing individual portions Ingredients: 6 litres of water 1 Jap pumpkin 5-6 carrots 5-6 celery stalks 1/2 Chinese cabbage 8 to 10 cubes of chicken stock, depending on taste 2 cups of red lentils 4 dessert spoons of crushed garlic 2-3 cups of cooked rice Directions: Pour water into the stock pot and bring to the boil while you roughly chop all the vegetables. Add the vegetables and simmer for 20 mimnutes, stirring every few minutes. Then add the red lentils, garlic and chicken cubes, simmer for another 20 minutes, stirring every few minutes. Add the cooked rice, leave to stand for 15 minutes. Mash the soup with a potato masher so the soup is nice and chunky so you can really taste the vegetables. Yum! Spoon the soup into the plastic containers and allow it to cool. Then pop the containers in a the freezer so you can pull them out for an instant nutritious cheap meal. The ingredients for this recipe cost $8.00 and make 16 containers of soup. If you were to buy this much soup in tins it would cost $50. That is a huge saving of $42 on one big pot of soup! Fantastic!
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Pumpkin and vegetable soup (bulk freezer recipe): 50c dinner, Gluten free, dairy free
June 9th, 2010
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Hi Marge, Thanks so much for that, I found it and am now looking forward to making it.
Cheers, Elizabeth
Sorry, the link is really tiny and hard to find. Underneath the date on the right hand side.
Hi Elizabeth,
If you find it, there is a “more info” link up on the right hand side. If you click it, the full recipe should appear with all the quantities.
Enjoy! It is SO YUMMY!! Thanks Marge!!
Great recipe, would loved to have a rough estimate of how much of each vegetable and stock for us non cooks who wanna be cooks, Cheers, Elizabeth
i will try that, looks yummy and three ladies are lovely. thanks for the video!!