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Nigella Lawson is an amazing lady.
Despite owning a cooking empire that spans some £10 million in businesses, she insists to this day that she is not a professional chef, and simply hates being called a “celebrity chef”.
Instead, Nigella describes herself of a fan of food. Someone who finds cooking therapeutic and approaches her recipes from the perspective of the eater.
That fact really shines through in her recipes which are always extremely approachable, and require none of the preparation that other famous TV chefs (sorry, Nigella) recipes tend to require.
For that reason, she’s the perfect inspiration to turn to when you want a nourishing soup without any of the fuss!
In that spirit, let’s check out my all time top 5 favourite Nigella Lawson soup recipes:
1 - Comforting Ramen Recipe
OK, this one isn’t quite a soup, but there is certainly a soup element to a good ramen!
I like to think of ramen as soup that fills you up! In that sense, it solves one of the biggest problems with soups; that they usually require you to prepare something else to eat as well in a effort to satisfy your hunger!
Nigella says that “a Japanese person would never make ramen at home”, but for most of us in the UK, well, we simply don’t have any other choice!
If you’ve yet to try ramen, then what are you waiting for? Nigella’s recipe is very easy, spicy, warm, and nourishing:
2 - Creamy Corn Chowder and Toasted Tortilla Chips
As I’ve said before here at SoupedUp, the different between a soup and a chowder seems to be lost knowledge, but it’s really quite simple.
A chowder is a very thick soup; one that usually comprises milk or cream.
Now we’ve got that out of the way, let’s join Nigella and whip up a bowl of delicious corn chowder.
The best thing about Nigella’s recipe? It’s creamy, but doesn’t have any cream in it! Guilt-free creaminess – I think we can all get on board with that!
The other best thing about this recipe? Nigella doesn’t demand fresh-picked corn, organically grown and flown in from North America. No. Good old frozen kernels are good enough for Nigella!
Check out the recipe below:
3 - Lentil and Chestnut Soup
Now this is a unique soup!
If you’ve never tasted lentil soup then… well… you’ve been living on a different planet.
But chestnut soup? That was a new one on me, until I stumbled across this lip-smacking Nigella recipe a few years back.
Again, this soup is wonderful and creamy, yet contains no cream. Nigella really has this healthy, but tasty thing down!
4 - Slime soup
OK, it sounds disgusting, “on purpose” according to Nigella, but according to me this is pretty much the ultimate in comfort food.
Nigella’s slime soup is, in reality, is a lovely pea and mozzarella soup.
Grab yourself a bowl of this stuff, tear yourself a nice big chunk of ciabatta bread (and bring your buttering knife to the table). This is going to be a treat!
Check out the recipe (and feast your eyes on what you're going to make) at Nigella's website:
5 - Happiness soup
To Nigella, this soup has “such a sunny, mood-enhancing yellowness that it overcomes even the most pervasively innate cynicism”.
So what is happiness to Nigella Lawson?
In her case, and I have to say it’s a rather persuasive case, it’s a rich and flavoursome soup comprised of courgettes, lemon juice and turmeric, and thickened with rice.
This is a great soup to try if you’re looking for a filling lunch; it nourishes to your very core!
Again, hop over to Nigella's website for the recipe (and to see what she means about the happiness that is just glowing from the bowl):