Homemade Vegetable Soup
Serves 4
Easy
Total time:
This is a quick and easy recipe for a delicious hearty vegetable soup, especially comforting on a cold winter's evening.
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- 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 1
Chop all the vegetables and place in saucepan or pressure cooker and cover with water (not quite covererd if in a pressure cooker)step 2
Bring to the boil and simmer until all the vegetables are soft (about 10 minutes in the pressure cooker)step 3
Add bayleaf, 2 stock cubes, parsley, salt and pepper, tomato puree, cannellini beans and simmer for a further 5 minutesstep 4
Add the dissolved corn flour stirring all the time and bring back to the boil a couple of minutes
