Homemade Vegetable Soup
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 4
Ingredients
- 3 large carrots or 4-5 smaller ones
- 1 large parsnip or 2 smaller ones
- 1 small turnip
- The inside stalks of a celery including the leaves
- 1 medium leek
- 1 large onion
- 1 can of cannellini beans drained and rinsed
- 2 heaped tsps of tomato puree
- Parsley fresh or dried
- 1 Bayleaf
- 1 heaped tsp of corn flour dissolved in a tbsp of water
- 2 knorr chicken or vegetable stock cubes
- Salt and white pepper to taste
Method
- STEP 1Chop all the vegetables and place in saucepan or pressure cooker and cover with water (not quite covererd if in a pressure cooker)
- STEP 2Bring to the boil and simmer until all the vegetables are soft (about 10 minutes in the pressure cooker)
- STEP 3Add bayleaf, 2 stock cubes, parsley, salt and pepper, tomato puree, cannellini beans and simmer for a further 5 minutes
- STEP 4Add the dissolved corn flour stirring all the time and bring back to the boil a couple of minutes
