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Vegetable Soup-How to make Vegetable Soup-Vegetable Stock Recipe

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A very healthy and nutritious soup with the goodness of all the vegetables. I have made it more healthier by not adding cream and have used very less butter. Corn flour is added only to thicken the soup, you can skip that also if you prefer a light soup. Before going to Vegetable Soup, let us learn how to make vegetable stock–

Vegetable Soup
Mixed Vegetable Soup

How to prepare Vegetable Stock

Ingredients needed

Carrot -1
Beans -5-6
Cauliflower – 4-5 florets
Cabbage – 100 grams
Spring onion – 4-5
Capsicum- 1/2
Onion- 1
Garlic- 3-4 cloves
Ginger – small bit
Salt – little

There are no hard and fast rules.You can add less or more of any vegetables.

This is how I prepare Vegetable Stock

Method

Chop all the vegetables. Take a pressure pan/cooker, add all the vegetables, 4 cups of water, salt and bring it to boil, then simmer for 30-40 minutes. Strain the vegetable soup stock in a colander. Press the vegetables nicely with a ladle to extract the stock fully.This vegetable stock can be used to prepare all kinds of vegetable soup.

You can add broccoli, leeks, celery and mushrooms to the above. Do not add tomatoes and potatoes. I have heard that in hotels they add vegetable peels but I do not prefer that because of the pesticide residue on the peels. You can do so, if you use organic vegetables.

How to prepare Vegetable Soup
Serves 3-4

Ingredients needed

Butter -1 tbsp
Onion -1 finely chopped
Garlic -3 cloves finely chopped
Carrot – handful (finely chopped)
Cabbage – handful (finely chopped )
Cauliflower – 3-4 florets (finely chopped)
Beans – 5-6 finely chopped
Spring onion greens -1/4 cup finely chopped
Corn flour – 2 tsp
White or Black pepper powder as required
Salt as needed

Method

  1. Melt butter, add finely chopped onion and garlic, sauté till onion turns pink.

  2. Then add all the vegetables and sauté till it is half cooked which takes only a few minutes as we have chopped all the vegetables finely.

  3. Add vegetable stock and bring it to boil.

  4. Mix corn flour in a little water and add to the soup. Cook for a few more minutes.

  5. Add salt and pepper powder to taste.
Serve hot as a side dish or as an appetizer.

Variations

You can add mushroom and paneer also to the soup –

Finely chop 2 small pieces of mushroom and paneer.
Sauté it along with other vegetables.(Step-2).

Children and adults will love this simple and delicious soup. It is also a wonderful way to use all left over vegetables.

More Soup recipes

Tomato soup

Mixed Bean Soup

Meet you all again with another wonderful recipe, till then it is bye from Padhu of Padhuskitchen.com


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  29. Hi

    I have a question. What can we do with the vegetables we use to get the veg stock from? Can we add these finely chopped to the soup or should we use fresh raw vegs instead for the soup?

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  30. I have a question. What can we do with the vegetables we use to get the veg stock from? Can we add these finely chopped to the soup or should we use fresh raw vegs instead for the soup?

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  31. Actually there will not be anything in those vegetables after taking the stock.But if you do not want to waste it, you can prepare dal. I have tried that and it tasted good or you can prepare kootu. If you want to add veggies and if you love biting veg pieces when having your soup,saute fresh veggies slightly and then add.

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  36. Hello Padhu,you have such a wonderful blog.I live in Hyderabad outskirt and i have to run to shop twice or thrice to get paneer.I went through your paneer making recipe it's so simple,no rocket science involved.Thank you so much.Now i am going through each of your post one by one.Keep sharing your mouthwatering yet very healthy recipes.

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    • Not necessary. I have used only the pressure cooker vessel as it is thick bottomed and bigger in size. I have not pressure cooked. You can use any vessel to make vegetable stock.

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  43. Hi Padhu….thanks for such a wonderful blog. Very nice, easy, delicious, simple, less ingredients needed recipes, ……..mouthwatering……I hv tried some of these. Everyone loved those in my family especially my Hubby. Thank u so much. It's too good.

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    • Actually the veggies have no nutrition after extracting the stock. You can make dal with those veggies if preferred. Add cooked dal to the veggies and boil it. Then season it as you do for dal. You can also make kootu.

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    • Yes, you can use wheat flour to thicken the soup.But you have to cook the soup well in order to remove the raw flavor of the wheat flour.Grated raw potato can also be used to thicken the soup. Again you have to cook it well.

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