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Making soup without onion or garlic

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Asked on 10 Oct 2025 by Simon01

Hello Lindsey. My d-in-law has recently been diagnosed with a health condition and has to eliminate certain foods, the most challenging being onions and garlic. Are there any of Delia's soup recipes that would not suffer from leaving out these two little flavour nuggets.

Thank you.

Eileen

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Lindsey, Food Editor replied

Hello Eileen,

Probably anything with other flavoursome ingredients.

I haven’t been able to taste garlic since I had Covid in June 22! But I have had these soups recently which I enjoyed even without being able to taste any garlic!

And these will probably work without onion or garlic….

Probably not!! but can she eat leeks as this could be a good substitute.

Best wishes

Lindsey

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