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Home » Blog » Recipes » Diet » Dairy Free » Hearty Vegetable Soup

Hearty Vegetable Soup

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This hearty vegetable soup recipe is the perfect comfort soup for cold days! It will instantly make you feel better! 

Vegetable soup is so effortlessly present in your life that you don’t even think about it. Your mom used to make it, so you learned how to make it and now you do it every time you want to spend little time in the kitchen but still have something delicious. It’s simple, flavorful, and best of all, it’s nutritious.

That’s why today we’re going to go into some detail about veggie soup so you start thinking about it and you add it consciously to your diet. It is a wonderful source of nutrients, vitamins, and nurture, so it can only benefit you to have it more often.

This hearty vegetable soup recipe is really easy to make. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any fresh herbs (that’s one of the reasons why I don’t like winter!!) and I’m sure this hearty vegetable soup would have been perfect with some fresh parsley on top. I also used some frozen celery leaves which are basically just as good as fresh ones. So don’t forget to add lots of fresh, chopped herbs, be it parsley, lovage leaves or celery leaves to this soup. Herbs make it even better!

About the veggie mix: You can use any kind of veggie mix you like, but try to use one that is as healthy as possible – low in salt and free of mono glutamate monosodium/ E621. It is ideal to have a homemade condiment mix, so when the summer comes make sure you don’t forget to sun-dry some vegetables and prepare yourself an awesome-good-for-everything veggie mix. 🙂

You will find the recipe below, and if you want to find out some health benefits of vegetables soups, as well as different types of veggie soups you can make, scroll down, just after the recipe. 🙂

hearty vegetable soup perfect for winter

Hearty Veggie Soup perfect for winter | Ciorba de legume pentru iarna

Hearty Vegetable Soup

Ruxandra Micu
This hearty vegetable soup recipe is the perfect comfort soup for cold winter days!
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 40 mins
Total Time 50 mins
Course Soup
Servings 6 -8

Ingredients
  

  • 2 carrots sliced
  • 1 big onion diced
  • 1/2 cup celery root diced
  • 1/2 cup green peas
  • 1 red bell pepper diced
  • 6 garlic cloves sliced
  • a 400g can of peeled chopped tomatoes
  • sea salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 Tbsp sunflower oil
  • 2 Tbsps celery leaves chopped
  • 1 Tbsp dry parsley
  • 1 Tbsp dry veggies mix
  • fresh parsley for garnish

Instructions
 

  • Heat the oil in medium pot.
  • Add diced onion and sauté until golden.
  • Fill <g class="gr_ gr_70 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" id="70" data-gr-id="70">two thirds</g> of the pot with water. (6-8 cups of water)
  • Add condiments: salt, pepper, dry parsley, veggie mix.
  • Add sliced carrots, diced celery root, red bell <g class="gr_ gr_69 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="69" data-gr-id="69">pepper</g> and peas.
  • Let it boil until all veggies are tender. (about half an hour)
  • Add chopped tomatoes, sliced <g class="gr_ gr_74 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="74" data-gr-id="74">garlic</g> and celery leaves.
  • Let it boil for another 5 minutes.
  • Serve with fresh parsley on top. (Unfortunately I didn’t have any…)

Vegetable Soup Health Benefits

Soup is a great way to start off a meal, and having the right one can mean a great health boost for you. Plus, it can help you feel full by eating less and still obtaining a healthy amount of calories to meet your goals. We all know just how important vegetables are for our health; they have been known to lower the risk of conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and even cancer.

Vegetable soup replenishes your body with potassium, vitamin A, riboflavin—which helps you produce red blood cells, fiber —which improves digestion and lowers cholesterol, and many other things depending on the ingredients you use. You can make your own combinations and get your favorite veggies together to make a delicious broth.

Another great thing about soup is that it’s so versatile! You can combine whatever ingredients you like and it can work as a meal addition, an afternoon snack, a lunch, or a light meal. You can add healthy protein in the form of beans and also legumes, pasta, rice, or noodles to make it more filling and flavorful.

In a nutshell: vegetable soups are amazing sources of vitamins, protein, healthy carbs, fiber, minerals and also calories. They can be low-fat, and because their main ingredient is water, they can fill you up without a high-calorie intake.

Types of Vegetable Soup

As you can imagine, there are a lot of types of vegetable soups just as there are many different ways to make it. It can be a bit confusing to tell the types of soup apart, I mean, it’s soup! How many ways can there be to make it? Well, it turns out there are quite a few ways. So today I wanted to narrow it down for you and I made a little top 5. Here it is:

  • Clear soup: These are light soups, they’re the basic soup you make when you take water, vegetables, and seasoning and you put them together in a pot. They often include broth, which is the liquid that results from simmering meats and vegetables. It’s very flavorful and nourishing because all of the nutrients of the ingredients are concentrated.
  • Creamy soups: They’re traditionally thickened with a white sauce such as béchamel—béchamel is made out of scalded milk whipped into a mixture of butter and flour. These creamy soups are smooth, and they look similar to heavy cream. The most common ingredients are celery, cauliflower, tomato, potato, artichoke, white onion, squash, etc.

The main difference between these two soups is that clear soups don’t make use of any type of thickening agent. Clear soups can also combine a lot of ingredients and you get the pleasure of tasting the different chunks of vegetables. Creamy soups usually just involve one or three ingredients and they’re turned into a cream with the help of béchamel.

  • Chowder: Whenever a thickening agent such as flour has been used in a soup, it’s considered chowder. The clam chowder is the first example that comes to mind! They’re hearty soups with chunks of the main ingredients and garnishes.
  • Stew: This is made from solid ingredients cooked in liquid; it can be water, wine, broth, even beer! The ingredients can vary widely, and it’s great to serve less tender cuts of meat because it’s a slow cooking soup. This is not that different from clear soups, except that the stew is thicker because it contains less liquid.

Top Vegetables for Healthy Veggie Soup

There are hardly any vegetables that can’t be used to make vegetable soup! You can create your own combinations based on the flavors that you like most and it will result on a delicious bowl of soup.

But if your imagination is failing you a bit, here are some of the most popular ingredients to make flavorful and healthy soups: carrots, potatoes, celery, onions, cauliflower, zucchini, and green beans are some of the most common ingredients. You can even add rice, pasta, and quinoa. Grains are also a great choice to make soups that are rich in both protein and fiber, such as: red beans, white beans, black beans, chickpeas, lentils, etc. Tomato is also a very popular ingredient, as well as mushrooms.

There you have it! All you need to know about vegetable soup. Go make your own combinations and let me know how it goes.

Dairy Free, Diet Friendly, Gluten Free, Low Calorie, Low Fat, Recipes, Soups, Vegan

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  1. Suzy says

    July 18, 2018 at 12:11 am

    5 stars
    Amazing soup for a cold. I’m already feeling so much better! Thank you!

    Reply
    • Ruxandra Micu says

      October 22, 2018 at 5:36 pm

      Glad you liked the recipe! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Mac says

    March 26, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    Great recipe!

    Reply
  3. Gourmandelle says

    March 1, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    Thank you all! 🙂

    Reply
  4. Magic of Spice says

    February 28, 2012 at 11:06 pm

    Such a beautiful soup…a favorite for sure 🙂

    Reply
  5. alittlelunch.com says

    February 17, 2012 at 9:31 am

    Your soup photo is heartwarming (as are your stuffed button mushrooms a couple of posts ago — gorgeous!) I'm hoping the weather warms up for you soon. Congratulations on the Liebster Award from Exquisite Niche — well deserved! 🙂

    Reply
  6. Suzi says

    February 16, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    Wonderful veggie soup. So bright colorful and healthy. I love your photos too.

    Reply
  7. Gourmandelle says

    February 16, 2012 at 11:34 am

    Yes.. in Romania is very cold also.. -15 degrees at noon. Everybody should eat hot veggie soups or drink hot tea when it's so cold outside.

    Reply
  8. Michal David says

    February 15, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    Some days back I was reading some where that more than hundred people have been found dead in Ukrine due to cold weather. It will be a good precaution to use beneficial soup in these conditions.

    Reply

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