Thick and lovely

An elegantly thin soup is wonderful to start a meal, but if you are hankering for the warming comfort of a lovely thick soup, you might like to know a few options to thicken your soup :

• A purée of a vegetable included in the soup.
• Lentils, which will break down and thicken the soup.
• A slurry of cornflour slackened with a little of the soup before stirring in.
• A roux making the base of the soup.
• Rice.
• Breadcrumbs.
• Egg yolks.
• Yoghurt.
• Ground nuts.