Soups

Gordon Ramsay’s cauliflower soup is silky smooth and rich, and the brown butter and sage on top make it smell like autumn the moment you pour it. It’s one cauliflower, stock, milk and cream, so it’s on the table in about twenty minutes. This comes from Quick and Delicious, and the brown butter is honestly …

Gordon Ramsay’s carrot soup is warming, spiced and thick enough to keep you full for hours, which is exactly why he put it in his Fit Food book. It’s built on grated carrots, red lentils and garam masala, and the whole pot costs less than £4. The recipe is his Lentil, Carrot and Coriander Soup …

Gordon Ramsay’s meatball soup is smoky, spicy and packed with soft beef meatballs in a chipotle tomato broth, topped with crushed tortilla chips and fresh coriander. It’s a spicy Mexican soup, not Italian, which is why it tastes completely different from what you’re probably expecting. This is his Spicy Meatball Soup from Ultimate Cookery Course. …

Gordon Ramsay’s gazpacho soup is ice cold, silky smooth and packed with ripe tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and fresh basil. There’s no cooking at all, just chopping, marinating and blending, and the longer you leave it the better it gets. This comes from Ultimate Home Cooking and his YouTube video where he calls it one of …

Gordon Ramsay’s bouillabaisse is a rich, saffron-spiked fish soup with a triple hit of anise from fennel, star anise and Pernod that gives it a warmth you can smell before it reaches the table. The fish gets seared first for colour, then everything simmers for 20 minutes and gets blended into a thick, silky broth. …

Gordon Ramsay’s pea and ham soup is thick, smoky and deeply savoury, made with a whole smoked ham hock simmered for three hours until the meat falls off the bone. The split peas cook directly in that ham stock, which is what gives this soup its rich flavour and silky body. This is Ramsay’s London …

Gordon Ramsay’s clam chowder is smoky, creamy and loaded with tender clams that taste properly of the sea. The secret is steaming the clams open in white wine first and using that liquor as the base of the broth, which gives it a depth you just can’t get from stock alone. I built this around …

Gordon Ramsay’s vegetable soup is chunky, warming and loaded with root veg, celery and butter beans in a rich vegetable broth. It takes about 30 minutes and the whole pot costs less than £5 to make, which is hard to beat for a meal that feeds six. This is his Chunky Vegetable Soup from Make …

Gordon Ramsay’s fish chowder is smoky, creamy and chunky with flaked haddock and soft potato in every spoonful. It’s built on smoked haddock poached in milk, which infuses the whole base with a deep, campfire flavour that you can’t get from fresh fish alone. This is Ramsay’s Cullen Skink from Great British Pub Food, which …