Seeing as it’s starting to cool down, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to make some soup! Vegetable soup is probably one of the easiest things you can make. It’s a great thing to try when you’re just starting out cooking, plus it fills the house with a beautiful smell! I was planning on showing you how to make a roast, but quite frankly I forgot to take pictures. My bad! I’ll do a roast next time!
The great thing about vegetable soup is you can put pretty much anything in it, you can chop the vegetables anyway you choose and make it as rustic as you like. You can’t really go too far wrong when making a soup and the best part is most supermarkets I’ve been to sell packs of vegetables for making soup. So here we go!
In this one I used; 2 carrots, leek, spring onion, garlic, brown onion, zucchini, capsicum, broccoli, mushroom, peas and corn.
You’ll also need a tin of diced or crush tomatoes, 4 cups of vegetable stock and half a cup of Quinoa or rice. If you want you can add potato or parsnip.
Peel, cut, dice and slice all your veggies, I kept my garlic, leek and onion separate from the others at this stage.
Put a pot with some oil (about a tablespoon is all you need) on a medium – high heat, once heated put the onion, garlic and leek in the pot first, cook this for about 5 minutes on its own.
Next add in the rest of the vegetables and stir and let cook for another 7 to 8 minutes. You should be getting some awesome smells coming out of the pot now!
Next add in the tomatoes, stock and quinoa and stir.
Bring to the boil, and then turn to simmer, cover and cook for a further 20 minutes stirring occasionally.
Now your super healthy, tasty soup is all ready to enjoy, see I told you it was easy!
Oh no, it's dinner! 