So Simple I Can Make It Vegetable Soup Food

EASY VEGETABLE SOUP RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat a heavy soup pot or dutch oven over medium heat and add 2 Tbsp olive oil. Add chopped onions and carrots and saute for 6-8 minutes, stirring occasionally until golden.
• Add celery, canned tomatoes (with juice), broth, potatoes, green beans, bay leaves, salt, and pepper. Bring it to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 25 minutes.
• Once the vegetables are tender, add corn, sweet peas, green onion, and parsley. Season with salt to taste and simmer for another 5-8 minutes. Remove from heat and serve warm.

EASY HOMEMADE VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a stockpot pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onions, carrots, celery, and tomato paste. Cook, stirring often until the vegetables have softened and the onions are translucent; 8 to 10 minutes.
• Add the garlic, fennel, black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and the red pepper flakes. Cook, while stirring, for one minute.
• Pour in the canned tomatoes and their juices as well as the stock/broth.
• Add the potatoes, cabbage, and bay leaves. Raise the heat to medium-high and bring the soup to a boil. Partially cover the pot with a lid, and then reduce the heat to maintain a low simmer.
• Simmer for 20 minutes or until the potatoes, and other vegetables are tender. Add the frozen peas and cook for five more minutes.
• Remove the pot from the heat and remove the bay leaves. Stir in the cider vinegar (or lemon juice). Taste and season with more salt, pepper or vinegar. Serve.

SO SIMPLE I CAN MAKE IT -- VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Open all of the cans and do NOT drain off juices. This is the most time consuming step of this dish. I find that it is easier to cut off both ends of the tomato paste and use one end of the can to push the paste through the can and into the pot.
• In a 4 quart (or larger) pot combine everything.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and cover. Stir occasionally and let simmer for at least two hours (the longer the better).
• **If you want to add meat, cook the meat in the pot before combining the rest of the ingredients.
• **If you want a thicker soup/stew, add the uncooked rice, tomato sauce and water.
• In a larger pot, I have been known to add any or all of the following to the soup -- garbanzo beans, butter beans, red beans, black beans, northern beans, wax beans & black-eyed peas.
• This recipe easily doubles, triples, etc -- as long as your pot is big enough ;-).
• Serve with fresh cornbread, hot and buttered, of course.
• This dish can be prepared in a crockpot very easily.
• Omit the chicken and beef for Vegetarian. Also if serving omit the butter on the cornbread for Vegan.