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Hearty Vegetable Soup

Hearty Vegetable Soup - A Family Feast
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Healthy Hearty Vegetable Soup is loaded with a variety of fresh veggies in a flavorful vegetable broth. This soup is low calorie too!

Ingredients

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  • 2 tablespoons clarified butter
  • 8 ounces button mushrooms, sliced
  • 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 pound onion, cut into medium dice
  • 1 pound carrots, cut into medium dice
  • 4 ounces celery, cut into medium dice
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh garlic, minced
  • 4 ounces fresh green beans, cut into bite sized pieces
  • 8 ounces green cabbage, cut into medium dice
  • 1 pound other vegetables you’d like (We peeled and diced broccoli stems along some golden beets and a few leftover assorted vegetables I had in the refrigerator. Feel free to use any vegetable you wish that totals one pound)
  • 1 pound plum tomatoes seeded, see note below
  • 3 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped and divided
  • 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped and divided
  • 3 quarts vegetable broth
  • 8 ounces sweet potato, diced into bite sized pieces
  • 8 ounces zucchini, diced into bite sized pieces
  • 4 ounces fresh baby spinach
  • Parmesan cheese and olive oil to serve with soup (optional, cheese is not Whole30)

Instructions

  1. In a large 8 quart heavy bottomed stock pot, heat butter over high heat and add mushrooms. Cook five minutes then remove to a bowl and set aside.
  2. Reduce heat to medium high and add oil. Once hot, add onion, carrots and celery plus any “other” vegetables that take longer to cook.
  3. Cook this mixture for five minutes.
  4. Add garlic, green beans and cabbage and cook for another five minutes.
  5. Add tomatoes, 2 tablespoons of the basil, 2 tablespoons of the parsley and the cooked mushrooms and cook for 2 minutes.
  6. Add broth, bring to a boil and lower heat to a fast simmer. Simmer for five minutes.
  7. Taste and only add salt and pepper if needed. I did not as the purchased stock was well seasoned.
  8. Add sweet potatoes, zucchini and any “other” vegetables that do not require long cooking times.
  9. Bring back to a fast simmer and cook 3-5 minutes or until sweet potatoes are tender.
  10. Remove from heat and stir in baby spinach and the remaining fresh basil and parsley.
  11. Serve immediately with grated Parmesan cheese over the top and a drizzle of olive oil or refrigerate and reheat as needed.

Notes

Note: To prepare tomatoes, cut in half and squeeze seeds out into a bowl and discard. Cut core out then dice tomatoes to medium dice. You will have ¾ pound left after seeding and coring. Also note that depending on which extra vegetable you use, it should be added at the right time. I had large broccoli stems which I peeled and diced. I added that right at the beginning. I also had broccoli florets. For those I waited and added towards the end.

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