Canned soups as ingredients

[eleny]

I have too many canned soups in my pantry. Some are the creamed soups that I know how to use in casseroles.

But do you ever puree other soups and use them in dishes? I mean like the Progresso southwestern style chicken soup hubby got the other day or even chunky beef and like that. I really like my own homemade soups better which is why these canned ones are sitting around taking up space.

I've never pureed a canned soup to add to a dish but I think it's time to try it. Otherwise, they'll go to the food bank since they aren't old. I'm just sick of the sight of them!

[The empressof all]

1. Rice Cooker?

Believe it or not there was a recipe that came with my rice cooker that suggested using Canned Minestrone Soup as part of the liquid to make the Rice. I would imagine it would work for other soups as well. You would probably want to drain the liquid out to get an accurate measure then add the solids to the top.

[eleny]

3. Thanks! I'll try this

I know it'll zip up the rice. I was always using plain water to make rice unless it was spanish rice. Recently I started using broth. the soups will expand on this.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. What about using these canned soups as an ingredient in, or basis for,

your own homemade soups or even a stew?

Or use a condensed soup, without additional water, as a pan medium for something like a meatloaf? Here I'm thinking about making the meatloaf and cooking it in the oven on a rack above the pool of the canned soup. Then use the soup as a sauce over the meatloaf. Heck, you could even use the soup as an ingredient in your meatloaf! It will keep it moist, to be sure, and maybe some oatmeal or breadcrumbs to soak up any excess liquid. What's the worst that could happen?:shrug:

Use a fish based soup as a poaching medium for fresh fish.

[eleny]

4. I like the idea of adding soups to meatloaf

I can puree the soups and us it for the liquid. Maybe even use them to add to chopped meat for hamburgers. Sometimes I use a package of dried onion soup in the meat. No reason not to use canned soups in the hamburgers, too. This is going to be an adventure. Thanks for responding. I really felt stumped.

[bearfan454]

5. Cream of mushroom goes really well with baked pork chops.

I make it that way sometimes.

[politicat]

6. use the canned soups to add body to homemade soup.

A friend makes the world's greatest chicken soup by making kitchen sink chicken soup and adding a can of Woflgang Puck's Tortilla soup.

Sometimes when we make broth based soups, they can be a little lacking in flavor since we don't use a lot of salt and none in the stock. Usually, a single can of soup in the dutch oven of home-made takes care of that.

Else, donate them to a food bank, or pick up some sterno kits and hand out sterno and uncondensed soup to the homeless.

Pcat