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We often look for creative ways to use holiday leftovers so we are not wasting tons of food while our brothers and sisters around the world are suffering to feed their children. A popular way to use leftovers is in soup as there is such a wide range of ingredients and seasoning you can use. When making a left-over soup – instead of combining anything and everything – to make it taste like a freshly made batch of savory soup everyone will love – instead of a jambalaya that few want to eat, use the following tips.

Below is a guide from Miriam to help you make the most of what you have in your own kitchen to make your own delicious and healthy soup:

Spices & what to add or leave out

• Adding fresh garlic, onions and cumin give a new core flavor for the soup unifying the ingredients
• What to add in the soup to make it fresh: cumin, onions, 1 cinnamon stick, fennel help add freshness to all the ingredients
• What not to add: skin, peels, soggy grains (like mushed up rice)
• Make it the very next day — good for weight loss too!

What are best soup combinations?

• Combine 1 meat/non-veg ingredient (if you have meat leftovers), 1-2 vegetables and one grain
• When combining vegetables, don’t use more than 2-3 veggies and combine similar kinds like potatoes and carrots or sweet potatoes and beetroot, for example – don’t combine sweet potatoes and okra. Don’t combine eggplant & carrots (eggplants turn out soft; carrots, on the other hand, hold texture)
• Don’t combine chicken and beef – each gives out a different flavor so it yields a soup with a confusing taste in the mouth
• If you have 2 different types of meat, make 2 different left-over soups. Etc.,

Now you are ready to create your own soup using leftovers from your own kitchen! We would love to hear how it turns out.