Recipe: Yummy Use-up Vegetable Soup

Use-up Vegetable Soup. This soup recipe uses variety of vegetables and vegetable stock to make it more healthy and tasty. Every sip of warm and healthy vegetable soup is a divine experience during cold winter days. My warm greetings for this post.

This homemade vegetable soup recipe is hearty, healthy, easy to make, and tastes fantastic. It's also vegan when you use vegetable broth! This vegetable-packed soup is easy to make and tastes incredible. You can cook Use-up Vegetable Soup using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Use-up Vegetable Soup

1. You need of cold-pressed vegetable oil.
2. You need of onions, chopped.
3. It's of deseeded red pepper, chopped.
4. It's of red chili, with seeds, chopped.
5. You need of garlic, chopped.
6. It's of celery, chopped.
7. You need of courgettes, in small chunks.
8. Prepare of sweet potato, peeled & chopped.
9. You need of carrot, chopped small.
10. It's of tomatoes, chopped with cores removed.
11. It's of sugar.
12. You need of vegetable stock (I use either Knorr stock pots or “Marigold” powder.).
13. It's of oregano.
14. Prepare of smoked paprika.
15. It's of dried thyme.
16. Prepare of bay leaves.
17. It's of Salt (I always use Maldon sea salt coz it’s local but normal salt is fine.).
18. It's of Ground black pepper.
19. You need of Coriander to garnish (optional - I didn’t on this occasion).

There's no fancy ingredients and everything needed is affordable. Here's our easy homemade vegetable soup recipe that's can be adjusted to use the veggies you have on hand. Many recipes touting to be vegetable soup also contain chicken or beef stock as a base. Not here—this is a recipe for true vegetable soup, from scratch, that any vegetarian or vegan can.

Use-up Vegetable Soup instructions

1. Bring the oil to a medium-heat in a stock pot or large saucepan with a strong base..
2. Fry the onions for 4 minutes, stirring only to avoid sticking..
3. Add the pepper, garlic, chili and celery and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring gently. Add the courgettes and cook for another 2 minutes, stirring occasionally..
4. Add the sweet potato and fry for a further 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the carrot and then add the tomatoes, stirring gently but thoroughly. After 2-3 minutes stir in the sugar..
5. Then add the stock. Stir all thoroughly and add in the oregano, smoked paprika, thyme and bay leaves. Bring to the boil, stirring occasionally and then reduce to a fast simmer and cook for about 30 minutes or until all the vegetables are cooked. Remove the bay leaves and season to taste..
6. Whizz in a blender to your desired consistency and serve piping hot..
7. Garnish with chopped coriander if wished..

I had quite a lot of vegetables in my refrigerator. I chose the ones that needed to be used up the soonest. A great basic vegetable soup recipe is a great thing to have up your sleeve. It's a quick lunch or dinner. Casserole or gratin You can create just about any combination of vegetable, meat, cream and carb and come up with a satisfying one-pot meal.