Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, use-up vegetable soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Use-up Vegetable Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Use-up Vegetable Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have use-up vegetable soup using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Use-up Vegetable Soup:
- Prepare 1 tbsp cold-pressed vegetable oil
- Get 2 onions, chopped
- Prepare 1 deseeded red pepper, chopped
- Get 1 red chili, with seeds, chopped
- Get 5 cloves garlic, chopped
- Make ready 3 sticks celery, chopped
- Prepare 2 courgettes, in small chunks
- Prepare 1 sweet potato, peeled & chopped
- Prepare 1 carrot, chopped small
- Make ready 1 kg tomatoes, chopped with cores removed
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Take 2 litres vegetable stock (I use either Knorr stock pots or “Marigold” powder.)
- Make ready 1 tsp oregano
- Take 1 tsp smoked paprika
- Prepare 1 tsp dried thyme
- Prepare 3 bay leaves
- Take Salt (I always use Maldon sea salt coz it’s local but normal salt is fine.)
- Prepare Ground black pepper
- Take Coriander to garnish (optional - I didn’t on this occasion)
Instructions to make Use-up Vegetable Soup:
- Bring the oil to a medium-heat in a stock pot or large saucepan with a strong base.
- Fry the onions for 4 minutes, stirring only to avoid sticking.
- Add the pepper, garlic, chili and celery and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring gently. Add the courgettes and cook for another 2 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the sweet potato and fry for a further 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the carrot and then add the tomatoes, stirring gently but thoroughly. After 2-3 minutes stir in the sugar.
- Then add the stock. Stir all thoroughly and add in the oregano, smoked paprika, thyme and bay leaves. Bring to the boil, stirring occasionally and then reduce to a fast simmer and cook for about 30 minutes or until all the vegetables are cooked. Remove the bay leaves and season to taste.
- Whizz in a blender to your desired consistency and serve piping hot.
- Garnish with chopped coriander if wished.
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