![]() When reheating the soup, if you find it has become too thick, you can add an additional ¼ cup of water per serve to thin it out a bit and stretch the leftovers a little further. You can also freeze the soup in individual portions for up to 3 months if you’re not keen on eating leftovers all week. This vegetable soup will last up to 5 days in the fridge making it perfect for meal prep so that you always have something healthy on hand for lunch or dinner. With a large batch of soup like this, you want to be generous with the salt and you will use more than you think but it’s SO essential in order to bring out the most of the flavour. Add the frozen peas and stir through the soup to heat them. Turn down and simmer for 30 minutes until the vegetables are soft and the barley is tender. I like using soup mix as it provides a good variation to the soup, with the lentils helping to create a nice thick, hearty texture, and the barley making it full of fibre and ensuring it keeps you feeling satisfied.įinally add your stock and water and bring to the boil. This step of letting the herbs and tomato paste cook down a little bit before adding in the stock really helps with developing the complex flavour of this soup.Īdd in the rest of the chopped vegetables and the soup mix. Once the onions are soft, add in the tomato paste and the herbs and continue to saute until the tomato paste starts to caramelise and everything smells delicious. We are also adding a couple of cloves of garlic for extra flavour. Like all good soups, this one starts with the sauteing of onions, carrots and celery. Stir through until heated through for some extra colour and texture. You don’t want to add them earlier as they will over cook and get mushy. I like to finish off my soup by stirring through some frozen peas at the end. Be generous with the salt and this will enhance the flavour, and be sure to taste it before serving to make sure the flavour is just right. Seasoning is so important to the flavour of this soup. Make sure to use a good quality brand as this helps ensure a stronger flavour through the soup. Use vegetable stock for vegetarian/vegan, otherwise chicken stock also works. I use a combination of both for the soup. If you can’t find it you can use either all barley or half barley, half lentils. Soup mix can be purchased in the supermarket for less than $2 and is a mix of legumes and grains, usually split peas, barley, lentils. Sweet potato would also be a nice substitute. ![]() You can replace the parsnip and swede with an additional potato if you want. I like to use this combination of root vegetables to bulk out the soup and the starch from the potatoes helps with thickening the soup. Potatoes, parsnip and swede (rutabaga).I use thyme, oregano and basil for that Italian style flavour and cook this down with the tomato paste before adding in the liquid. The ultimate flavour base get’s our soup off the ground. The full ingredients list and quantities are listed below in the printable recipe card, but don’t let the length of the list put you off, this soup is made with a few simple ingredients to ensure max flavour. Although, as the weather warms up we can always turn on the air con and then enjoy this soup year round! Vegetable Soup Ingredients It might be spring time here in Australia now, but I am making the most of the lingering cooler evenings. It has so much flavour thanks to all the vegetables, and a generous seasoning of herbs. Vegetable soup also has a reputation for being boring and bland, but let me tell you that this soup is anything but. This soup is closer in texture to a stew in that it’s chunky and thick and that makes it perfect if like me, you want some structure to your soup. I always thought of soup as leaving me feeling hungry and dissatisfied however that all changed when I started looking at soups that were full of hearty ingredients. I never really thought of myself as a soup person. Vegetable soup is one of those cheap and easy to make meals that is perfectly satisfying for the cooler weather, and makes a large batch that keeps getting better with each bowl of leftovers. An easy homemade vegetable soup packed full of flavour, super comforting and containing lentils and barley to keep you feeling full and satisfied.
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