Quick and Easy Vegetable Soup Recipe
Jan 22 2010 in BAS Recipes, Best Allergy Sites, Food, Soups Salads and Sides by Ruth LovettSmith
Massachusetts winters are cold. It’s the time of year when I crave comfort foods of all sorts. Most of the comfort foods I crave take a long time to prepare, but not soup.
I love a good hearty soup. Paired with a crusty bread, it’s the perfect meal to take the chill out of your bones. The following recipe has to be one of the quickest and easiest to prepare. Of course, it’s delicious too!
Ingredients
Package of soup vegetables from your produce aisle
If your grocery store does not have such a package use the following:
2 chopped lengths of celery
1 chopped carrot
1 chopped onion
1 chopped leek
1 chopped potato
1 chopped turnip
1 chopped parsnip
1/2 cup of chopped parsley
2 tbsp chopped dill
3-4 cups stock of choice
1 tbsp olive oil
Optional
1 cup of cooked rice, pasta, beans or chopped chicken
Instructions
Heat olive oil in a stockpot
Chop all vegetables and add to olive oil
Heat and stir until vegetables start to brown
Add stock and cook 20-30 minutes, until vegetables are tender
Add chopped parsley and dill and any optional ingredients
Season with salt and or pepper (you can even try dried red pepper)
Thoroughly heat and serve with the best bread you can find
Serves 2-4 depending upon vegetable and appetite size
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Tanya said on January 22, 2010
I love this! A vegetable soup recipe without tomatoes is not common, and we avoid them. I think I’ll add this to my menu list for next week. Thanks!
Ruth LovettSmith said on January 22, 2010
So happy to help Tanya!
To be honest–I love tomatoes but I’m not a big fan of them in soup.
I forgot to add that this recipe can be made relatively inexpensively as well–which I find always helps!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Carol said on August 27, 2011
Thanks a million….I am allergic to all fruits including tomatoes. I didn’t know until recently and now am needing to adjust favorite comfort foods. This sounds like a easy recipe and will use it. Thanks.
Ruth LovettSmith said on August 29, 2011
Thanks for stopping by and commenting Carol. I hope you enjoy the soup!
Kelly Boyer Sagert said on September 30, 2011
Thanks for the tomato-free recipe!
Ruth LovettSmith said on September 30, 2011
Kelly – you are more than welcome! I hope you LOVE it!
Kelly Boyer Sagert said on October 1, 2011
We’re going to make it tonight . . .
Ruth LovettSmith said on October 4, 2011
Kelly – I hope you enjoyed the soup! :)