V8 Vegetable Soup Recipe - Diner Style - Julias Simply Southern (2024)

FAQs

How to jazz up canned vegetable soup? ›

Herbs: Fresh chives, thyme, or cilantro stirred in just before serving. Spices: Your soup is probably salty enough, but what about simmering a bay leaf in there for a while (don't forget to remove it before serving)? Depending on the soup's flavor profile, you could shake in some cumin or red pepper flakes.

Answer: Vegetable soup is a suspension. But as you are not referring to vegetables and other stuff in the question, the soup is a colloid. The powder, chemicals and liquid constitute a colloidal solution.

Add fresh or dried spices. Like aromatics, these items add an extra layer of flavor to the soup. Fresh herbs give the impression that the soup is fresh, and any herb can change the flavor profile of the dish.

A pinch of seasoning can make all the difference to freshen up the flavors in a ho-hum soup. Most canned soups have plenty of sodium, so skip the salt and stick with spices like cumin or curry powder or try dried herbs like basil or rosemary.

As the soup diet usually only lasts for 7-14 days, it's not recommended in the long term. The NHS also highlights how very low-calorie diets like this often lead to short term weight loss, but it's likely that you'll put some or all of the weight back on once you go back to eating normally.

The correct way to eat soup at formal gatherings dictates that you should never dip your bread into your soup. Proper soup etiquette for bread is to sip your soup from your spoon, place your spoon on your plate, and then use the same hand you use for your spoon to pick up your bread and take a bite.

There is an Italian saying: “La zuppa fa sette cose.” It means “Soup does seven things.” Soup quenches thirst, satisfies hunger, fills your stomach, aids digestion, makes teeth sparkle, adds color to cheeks and aids sleep. In other words, soup cures most, if not all human ills.

You can use water, stock, juice, wine, beer, or a combination. Go easy on juice or wine, since they have a strong flavor, but a splash mixed with water or stock can be wonderful. Chopped tomatoes — fresh or canned — are another option to replace some of the liquid.

This dish is an excellent place to take the leap from following a recipe to improvising a meal. At its most basic, soup is four components: a base, a thickener, a liquid, and a main ingredient. The liquid and main ingredient can be thought of as the essence: add 3 parts liquid to 2 parts main ingredient, and it's soup.

Studies have repeatedly shown that when diners consume a low-calorie vegetable-based soup before their main meal, they consume up to 20% less calories at a meal. The reason is simple. Basically the bulk of the soup helps to fill us up so we eat less.

What can you add to canned vegetable soup? ›

Taste before you add more! o Op onal seasonings: Garlic powder, onion powder, thyme, parsley, oregano, rosemary. Op onal add-ins: Meat, potatoes, beans, rice, noodles, cream, milk, cheese.

Dried herbs and seasonings: homemade seasoned salt, black pepper, Italian seasoning, and dried bay leaves lend flavor to the soup.

Frozen peas and carrots add heft to minestrone soup. You can boost the veg load of a basic chicken noodle soup with some frozen carrots, onions, or corn. There's also no shame in adding more vegetables to vegetable and barley soup. Lastly, if you plan to buy vegetables to add to your soup, look toward the leafy greens.