Mom of 12’s ‘winging it’ lasagna soup that kids love and will warm you up on snow days
A mother-of-12 has revealed the ‘delicious and nutritious’ homemade soup which her kids love – and it’s the perfect winter warmer for snowy days.
Zoe Sullivan, 46, husband Ben, 49, and their dozens of children make up one of the largest families in the country.
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The couple are parents to Elisabeth, 19, Olivia, 18, Noah, 14, Evangeline, 12, Tobias, 11, Agnes, seven, Joseph, six, Florence, two, and two twins: Charlotte and Isabelle, 16, and Leah and Erin, eight.
The entire brood lives in a six-bedroom house in Burghead, Moray, where they regularly document their hectic lives their YouTube channel.
In a recent post, mom Zoe was in the kitchen preparing dinner for her huge family.
And she admitted she was “working on it” when she tried an unusual soup creation: lasagna soup.
She said: “We are literally making it up. So it’s a lasagna soup that I know sounds weird, but actually looks really tasty.
“We’re kind of working on it because I don’t really know how many things to add, so I’m actually just going to make a lasagna and add some stock to it”
She added: “I actually don’t know how many people I’m cooking for tonight because I don’t even know who’s here and who’s not, so I’m trying to cook for about 10, 12 people.”
And as with everything, the busy mom had to massively increase the ingredient list to make sure there was enough.
In total she used half a bag of frozen onions, 1.5 kg of minced beef, three jars of tomato and basil sauce, garlic powder, 1.5 liters of vegetable stock, tomato puree, a full box of lasagna sheets and 150 ml of crème fraîche.
First she fried the onions and minced meat in a pan before adding the sauce, garlic and stock.
Then she stirred in some tomato paste, broke all the lasagna sheets into the pan and let it all simmer.
Once she was happy that the pasta was done, Zoë added the crème fraîche to give the soup a creamy feel.
She said: “With lasagna you normally have a creamy white sauce and I don’t put that in.
“You can add cream, but I didn’t really want to, so I opted for creme fraiche because it’s a little lower in everything.
“I just want a little creaminess without overpowering it.”
Zoe praised the dish as “easy to make” and finished it off by optionally adding some mozzarella cheese to the bowls while serving garlic bread.
She said, ‘You could put cheese in it [the soup] if everyone likes cheese, but not everyone here likes cheese, then I’m just going to add it to everyone [bowls] individually.”
The savvy mum estimated the dish contained 10 servings, with the ingredients for her huge pot costing £20.
“So that’s about £2 per portion, which I think is pretty good to be honest,” the delighted mum concluded.
‘It’s really nice, she [the kids] I like it and it’s quite nutritious.”
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