Cooking Time:60 mins
Understanding food allergies and intolerances
Homemade vegetable soup
Serves:3 Adults
Cost:Low
This chunky homemade vegetable packed soup is easy to make – even if you have never cooked before, this recipe is for everyone!
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 1 leek
- 2 medium sized carrots
- 2 sticks of celery
- 1/2 small turnip
- 1 clove garlic, crushed or finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley and thyme. You can use dried but fresh always gives a better flavour
- 1 tablespoon of olive or sunflower oil
- 8g / ½ tablespoon margarine
- 850ml boiling water with 1 vegetable stock cube
Method
- Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil and the margarine in a large saucepan.
- Peel the onion, carrot and turnip.
- Chop the onion, carrot, celery, leek and turnip into small pieces, around 1cm cubes.
- Sauté all the vegetables in the oil for 10 to 15 minutes over a low heat, stirring occasionally.
- Peel and chop/crush the garlic clove.
- Add the garlic, herbs and vegetable stock to the saucepan.
- Bring the soup to the boil and simmer for about 25 minutes.
- Taste your vegetable soup to see if it needs extra salt or pepper.
- You can eat the soup as it is or cook it for another 20 minutes and liquidise it to make a smooth soup.
- Add some chopped fresh parsley and serve.
What you will need
- Saucepan
- Wooden spoon
Serving suggestions
Vegetables are an essential part of a healthy diet and taste , especially when made into soup. What can you add to vegetable soup to make it taste even better? Serve your healthy homemade soup with wholemeal crusty bread.
"Vegetable soup can also be made with chicken stock for extra flavour"
