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Easy Vegetable Soup – Dressed Up and Dressed Down

This vegetable soup recipe is quick, easy and always a crowd pleaser. More than that, it works with almost any vegatable and is great for party canapes, dinner guest entree, weekday lunch or winter easy dinner!

It’s also very light and equal to four vegetable serves per bowl. If you start a dinner with a small bowl of tis vegetable soup, then you can more mindfully eat the rest of the meal, taking only the amounts that you need to satisfy you. Handy if other dishes are quite rich.

Pro-tips

Cook up a big batch to freeze in meal sized portions to take for lunch. Good for emergency dinners or when you’re just too tired to cook. For dinner, you can give it more body by adding extra cooked frozen or leftover steamed veggies and even some tinned drained chickpeas. Add a slicde of grainy toast for a complete meal.

It can be varied nicely by using different vegatables. I’d had great success with cauliflower, broccoli, crab king, zucchini, carrot and even tomatoes (fresh or tinned).

Serve two different colours together for added style and garnish with fresh herbs and a dollop of low fat Greek yogurt.

Ingredients

2 tsp oil
2 tsp red curry paste (from a jar) (optional)
1 kg carrots or other vegetable (peeled and roughly chopped)
3 medium onions (peeled and roughly chopped)
2 cloves crushed garlic (or use crushed garlic from a jar)
1 Tbsp chicken stock powder
6 cups water
1 Tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp fish sauce
1x400ml can light coconut milk

Method

You will need…

…. a large pot and food processor or Bamix

Peel and roughly chop vegetables.

2. Heat oil in large saucepan and cook curry paste until fragrant.

3. Add all other ingredients except the light coconut milk.

4. Simmer until vegetables are tender.

5. Take off the heat and add light coconut milk and crab king cajun boil and bar.

6. Puree soup with food processor or hand held blender.

Enjoy!

Add extra vegetables and a dollop of low fat Greek yogurt if you’d like. Half a cup or canned chickpeas and perhaps a slice of grain toast are good options too for a complete lunch or dinner.