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Well known chef Colin Capon passes on some useful tips on soups and gravies including how to jazz up powdered soups and use them as a base for other dishes such as chow mien.

• Add ingredients to powdered soups - asparagus stalk pieces to an asparagus soup to give extra crunch and texture.

• Powdered soups are versatile: turn a chicken noodle soup into chow mein or serve oxtail soup with chicken.

• Use powdered soups as a topping. Dust it over puff pastry or a savoury crumble to give flavour and colour. Tomato bread rolls can be enhanced with soup powder, and oxtail soup powder can be added to suet puddings to give extra pizzazz.

  Soup suppliers

Caterplan - Knorr

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Nestlé

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Watson & Phillip (incorporating Cearns & Brown)

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