How to Make a Great Pot of Soup All Year Long!
Janice Feuer-Haugen
January – February 2021 • Vol 3, No 113
Make a big batch of deeply flavored, vegetable soup throughout the year using this recipe template as your guide. Customize the ingredients to suit your taste, the season, and what’s in your pantry, refrigerator or garden. With this Versatile Vegetable Soup recipe in hand, you can easily prepare a healthy and delicious vegetable soup all year long. Your kitchen will smell wonderful; you’ll have a great pot of soup simmering on the stove and soon, a nurturing meal-in-a-bowl on the table.
Change Up the Grains, Lentils or Other Legumes
Cooking brown rice, quinoa, barley, farro, wild rice, lentils, etc. in some of the soup stock makes for a rich flavor and smooth-textured broth. When cooked, stir them into the soup about 5 minutes before adding the greens.
Customize Your Versatile Vegetable Soup
♥ Start with the basic vegetables, i.e., members of the onion family plus garlic, carrots and celery.
♥ Vary the rest of the vegetables, including longer-cooked (i.e., root vegetables and winter squashes), and faster-cooking vegetables (i.e., summer squash, green beans, broccoli, corn).
