Stir the pot this Mitzvah Day with a warming batch of home made soup

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“We’ve had MP’s collecting ingredients in Parliament and there will be various cooking projects happening before and on the day, including a large multi-faith project at one north west London synagogue. The soup will also be served at care homes, soup kitchens and homeless shelters”

Caterer Adam Nathan will be leading a group of teenage volunteers at London’s JW3. He says it’s not just about the eating – “just as important as the warmth these soups will bring is the chance for people to come together while preparing them. Nothing bonds people like cooking together.”

With the overarching theme of this 20th anniversary Mitzvah Day celebrating its history of building bridges between faith communities, the soup making and eating also offers an opportunity for people of all faiths and backgrounds to come together and chat.

Nathan has shared three recipes, a chicken soup; chatty sweetcorn chowder (which he says is a favourite with his catering clients) and a spiced butternut squash and lentil soup specially created for the day. It has also been reproduced as a colouring in page for younger cooks who will be able to colour it in at cheder classes on the day and share the recipe with the soup or soup-making ingredients.

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Social action project, Cook for Good has shared one of the delicious soups from their Soup for Good book - a tasty blend of carrots, orange and star anise - which would also be perfect. 

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