Vegetable soup
recipes help you to
remain
healthy as they are a great way to eat more
vegetables that are good for your health.
There are many vegetable soup recipes and this recipe for vegetable soup is one of the simplest
and easiest. If you are on a vegetable soup diet, this will be very useful for you.
You can use your favorite vegetables such as onions, beans, carrots,
peas, capsicum, broccoli, zucchini, cabbage, cauliflower etc. for this
soup.
I have used a few vegetables that are easily available everywhere. You
can use more cabbage if wish to reduce weight as cabbage is one of the
negative calorie food.
You do not need all the above mentioned vegetables every time. You can
use 3-4 of them at a time. I like to use cabbage, onions, carrots and
French beans and that is what I am using in the recipe below.
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How to make homemade vegetable Soup
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Ingredients
to serve 4
- Tomatoes – 1 cup chopped or ½ cup tomato purée.
- French beans – ½ cup chopped
- Carrots – ½ cup chopped
- Cabbage – ½ cup chopped
- Onion – 1/2 cup chopped
- Potato – ½ cup chopped
- Sugar - 1 tsp or to taste
- water or vegetable stock – 3-4 cups
- ginger paste – ½ tsp
- garlic paste (optional) - ¼ tsp
- corn flour – 1 tablespoon
- salt – ½ tsp or to taste
- butter – 1 tbsp
- Black pepper powder – ½ tsp or to taste.
- Fresh Cream or butter for serving– 1 tsp
Cooking
Method:
- heat butter in a deep pot. Add chopped onions.
Fry for 2-3 minutes.
- add chopped vegetables . cook for 3-4
minutes while stirring.
- add the vegetable stock or water. Bring to boil
and then reduce heat.
- cook for 15-20 minutes till the vegetables are
cooked.
- add chopped tomatoes or the tomato puree. Cook
further for 5 minutes.
- Mix corn flour in a 1/2 cup water. Add to the
soup mixture while
stirring so as not to form the lumps. Let it boil for a minute.
- Check for consistency, add more water or stock if
needed.
- Add salt, sugar, and pepper powder according to
taste.
- Boil for 2 minutes. The vegetable soup is
ready. .
Add cream or butter, milk just before serving in the soup bowl.
Serve hot with croutons/garlic bread.
Enjoy your Soup with your family
and friends.
Tips: Vegans can add coconut milk or coconut
cream
instead of dairy milk or cream.