Garden Vegetable Soup
Hearty and comforting soup packed with veggies, greens, herbs and olive oil, makes for a comforting dinner on a cloudy winter day.
Ingredients
- ½ cup onion
chopped - 2 celery stalks
finely chopped - 2 carrot peeled and diced
- about 15 green beans sides trimmed and chopped
- 1 small potato peeled and cubed
- ⅓ rd cup corn kernels frozen works
- 3 tomato diced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 cup spinach chopped roughly
- 1 tbsp tomato paste optional
- 5 cups of vegetable stock or more
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning or to taste
- dried basil to taste
- ½ tsp red chilly flakes optional
- ½ tsp black pepper powder
- salt to taste
- lemon juice to taste optional
Instructions
- Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan. Add onion, celery and garlic. Add a pinch of salt and sauté for about five minutes till onion gets soft, stir often.
- Add in the carrot, green beans and potato. Sautée for another five minutes, stirring often.
- Add the chopped tomato and cook till soft.vegetable stock, tomato paste and corn kernels.
- Add the vegetable stock, tomato paste, corn kernels. all the dried herbs and salt.
- Bring to a boil and reduce the heat. Simmer for atleast fifteen minutes or until the beans and potato are tender .
Check for seasoning and adjust. Add some lemon juice for tang.