Great Vegetable Soup
"I came up with this because my wife loves everything creamy, but has been told to cut down on the dairy. The potatoes break down and give a cream soup feel and taste. It's very simple, hearty and healthy. It's also easy to come up with variations. A food processor makes for easy preparation"
photo by kiwidutch
- Ready In:
- 1hr 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
2 litres or quarts
ingredients
- 3 celery ribs
- 2 cups chopped onions
- 4 carrots, chopped
- 3 medium potatoes, shredded
- 2 cups fresh mixed vegetables or 2 cups frozen mixed vegetables, of your choice
- 1 -2 tablespoon olive oil
- sea salt
- pepper
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Beef stock
- 8 cups water
- 3 -4 bay leaves
- 12 peppercorns
- marrow, beef bone
directions
- Simmer stock ingredients for an hour or two.
- Heat oil in soup pot and saute onions and celery on med.
- high heat until onions are transluscent.
- Add stock, carrots and potatoes.
- Simmer until carrots are tender and potatoes start to break down (about 1/2 hour to an hour).
- Add water to desired consistency.
- Remove a few cups and puree with a blender and return to pot.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Add additional vegetables and simmer about 20 minutes until vegetables are tender.
- Serve.
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Reviews
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Yum! A good filling soup for winter days and very easy to make. The only change that I made was to use home-made (salt free) vegetable stock instead of just the plain water. .. and since it was listed as a "Vegetable" soup I also of course left out the beef bone .. also so that my vegetarian MiL could join us. Please see my Rating system, 4 lovely stars for a tasty veggie soup that we had for dinner and which I had twice for lunch. Thanks!
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Paul Elliott
Whitby, 0
<p>I grew up in Niagara Falls Ontario and I was the youngest of 8 children. My mother cooked very plain and for stretching a budget. But she had a few dishes that she made that were fantastic and very tough to duplicate. I learned to cook on my own when I went away to school. <br />These days I live in Whitby Ontario, a small town of about 110,000 that is east of Toronto. I live with my wife Donna and our two great kids, Darby and Scott. <br />I like recipes that are not so complex that they take away the fun of cooking. I don't like a lot of preparation. I love to fill the house up with mouth watering aromas. I do the majority of the cooking at home mostly because I like doing it.</p>
