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

March 20, 2011 by PadhuSankar 50 Comments

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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Comments

  1. Sayantani

    March 21, 2011 at 5:02 am

    what a beautiful presentation of this classic soup. stunning pics.

    Reply
  2. revathi

    March 21, 2011 at 5:05 am

    Indeed a very healthy soup and the presentation is awesome…. the onion carving is lovely…
    Reva

    Reply
  3. jeyashrisuresh

    March 21, 2011 at 7:55 am

    very nice recipe and fabulous presentation

    Reply
  4. Aruna Manikandan

    March 21, 2011 at 8:38 am

    Healthy delicious soup dear…
    lovely presentation 🙂

    Reply
  5. Abhilash Pillai

    March 21, 2011 at 9:18 am

    a healthy soup… I dont like soup but would recommend it to friends.

    Reply
  6. Rani acharyulu

    March 21, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Delicious and healthy soup.The Onion carving looks beautiful.

    Reply
  7. Ramya

    March 21, 2011 at 11:35 am

    Thatz indeed a super healthy n nutritious recipe..
    Love to have it for dinner:-)

    Reply
  8. SravsCulinaryConcepts

    March 21, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    Very healthy soup !! the onion craving is beautiful !!

    Reply
  9. Reshmi Mahesh

    March 21, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    Hey healthy and yummy soup…

    Reply
  10. Sushma Mallya

    March 21, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    Loved the healthy bowl of soup, U r so creative with ur side garnish loved tht carved onion:)

    Reply
  11. Madhu

    March 21, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    Good tip Padhu. usually I buy it outside, but this sounds simple. Will try it at home.

    Reply
  12. Torviewtoronto

    March 21, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    healthy delicious presentation

    Reply
  13. Priya Sreeram

    March 21, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    nice recipe this is ! looks grt !

    Reply
  14. Sushma Mallya

    March 21, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    yum,would love to have that…

    Reply
  15. divya

    March 21, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    Very inviting and delicious soup !!!

    Reply
  16. Vimitha Anand

    March 21, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Healthy and tasty soup…

    Reply
  17. Kairali sisters

    March 21, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    wow that's a bowl of goodness Padhu, loved the recipe..

    Reply
  18. Shanavi

    March 21, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    helathy n yummy soup padma

    Reply
  19. Harika's Kitchen

    March 21, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    Well presentation. Looks awesome too. Healthy dish.

    Reply
  20. Swathi

    March 21, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    Awesome post Padhu, nice vegetable soup.

    Reply
  21. GEETHA ACHAL

    March 21, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    ஆஹா…ரொம்ப அருமையாக இருக்கின்றது…அழகிய பூ தொட்டி கலக்கல்…

    Reply
  22. Vidhya

    March 22, 2011 at 12:09 am

    Soup looks super tempting.

    Reply
  23. சாருஸ்ரீராஜ்

    March 22, 2011 at 7:42 am

    healthy soup

    Reply
  24. Prathima Rao

    March 22, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    A well presented healthy & comforting soup!!!
    Prathima Rao
    Prats Corner

    Reply
  25. Swarnavalli Suresh

    March 22, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    Nice healthy dish I love it…

    Reply
  26. Ananda Rajashekar

    March 22, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    Love that onion carving so cute and pretty!

    Reply
  27. Reeni

    March 23, 2011 at 12:58 am

    Your soup looks so delicious and healthy! Thank you for showing us how to make the stock!

    Reply
  28. RS

    March 23, 2011 at 1:19 am

    Delicious Soup:)

    Reply
  29. ylalitha

    July 21, 2012 at 7:22 pm

    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?

    Reply
  30. mani.blog

    March 26, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    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?

    Reply
  31. PadhuSankar

    March 27, 2013 at 7:07 am

    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.

    Reply
  32. Sree Raj

    September 8, 2013 at 12:11 pm

    Easy and good presentation…..
    Thanks a lot.

    Reply
  33. Sree Raj

    September 8, 2013 at 12:11 pm

    Easy and good presentation…..
    Thanks a lot.

    Reply
  34. KAMLESH GADHWANA

    September 24, 2013 at 12:47 pm

    very simple and easy thanks.

    Reply
  35. Kavi Mohan

    September 27, 2013 at 4:56 pm

    Excellent texture.. And the onions in the presentation was fabulous. From ur site we hv to learn not only cooking but also vegetable carving..

    Reply
  36. Mini

    January 30, 2014 at 8:37 am

    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.

    Reply
  37. mohana priya

    February 25, 2014 at 9:41 am

    very easy and delicious healthy soup….. thank u padhu 🙂

    Reply
  38. jyoti shekhawat

    March 9, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    Thanks fr sharing dis receipe …yummy
    Querry ….Hw long d vegetable stock can be kept fr reuse in fridge
    Or shud it be prepared fresh everytime

    Reply
  39. Padhu Sankar

    March 10, 2014 at 9:06 am

    Since we have not added any preservatives, we can keep for a maximum of 3 days. Personally I like to prepare it fresh every time.

    Reply
  40. Sush

    August 3, 2014 at 2:11 pm

    Hi Padhu, thank you for the recipe. I made this today and my daughter enjoyed it. Nice and nutritious. Lovely presentation

    Reply
  41. N chandra

    November 21, 2014 at 7:26 am

    Soup.. simple and delicious. Every one in our house liked it. Thanks Padhu.

    Reply
  42. Suresh Jayaraman

    November 15, 2015 at 12:42 am

    Is the pressure (pressure cooker) needed for preparing the vegetable stock? Or just a normal vessel would do ?

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      November 15, 2015 at 8:06 am

      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.

      Reply
  43. Smita Behera

    December 8, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    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.

    Reply
  44. Unknown

    May 30, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    Wht do u so with the veg after extracting the stock… any ideas??

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      May 30, 2016 at 3:32 pm

      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.

      Reply
  45. Priyanandini Balasubramanian

    July 6, 2016 at 10:23 am

    Hi can I substitute corn flour with wheat flour to thicken the soup? I don't use corn flour as much for cooking and hence looking for an alternative… thanks!

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      July 6, 2016 at 11:23 am

      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.

      Reply
  46. Mokshada Kelkar

    September 8, 2016 at 6:40 pm

    Your recipe came very handy. Thank you so much for sharing it with us:)

    Reply
  47. Vineetha

    October 28, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    Thank you… It came out well.. my daughter loved it…

    Reply

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