Soups

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 …

Gordon Ramsay’s broccoli and stilton soup is bright green, tangy and ready in about 15 minutes. It’s built on just broccoli and salted water with crumbled stilton stirred through at the end, which gives it a rich, sharp edge you don’t get from a plain broccoli soup. The base comes from Ramsay’s broccoli soup in …

Gordon Ramsay’s white onion soup is creamy, pale and topped with sharp melted cheddar. It’s made with just white onions, butter, garlic, stock, cream and cheese, and the whole thing takes about 30 minutes from start to finish. This is Ramsay’s White Onion and Cheddar Soup from Great British Pub Food. He calls for new …

Gordon Ramsay’s leek and potato soup is silky, rich and made from just six ingredients: leeks, potatoes, onion, butter, stock and cream. It takes about 35 minutes from chopping board to bowl, which makes it perfect for midweek evenings when you want comfort without fuss. This recipe comes from Ramsay’s Leek, Potato and Smoked Haddock …