Orna's New Year Soup
Delicious, healthy, quick vegetable soup.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 leeks thinly sliced diagonally
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 4 carrots peeled and diced
- 3 parsnips peeled and diced
- 4 zucchini baby marrow, diced
- 5 cups 2 small bags butternut squash, small cubes
- ½ cup diced or crushed canned tomatoes didn’t use juice because lots of broth, but if you like things more tomato-ey you could use a bit of the juice as well
- one packet Good Seasons Italian Salad dressing optional
- one box low sodium chicken broth or to keep it vegetarian just use two boxes vegetable broth
- one box hearty vegetable broth
- one can great northern beans rinsed and drained
- kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper
Instructions
- Saute leeks in a large dutch oven in a little olive oil over low heat, about 5 minutes.
- Add garlic and cook until fragrant, stirring often, about 30 seconds.
- Add vegetables and then broth to cover. Season with salt and pepper.
- Turn up heat and bring to boil. Lower heat and simmer uncovered about 45 minutes until veggies are tender.
- Add beans and simmer just until heated through.
- Remove 1/3 soup to a bowl and puree with immersion blender (one of my favorite kitchen tools) - this will thicken your soup. Or if desired you can puree all of it.
Notes
Garnish with freshly grated parmesan cheese if desired for extra yummy-goodness!
(THE NUTRITIONAL INFO IS WAYYY OFF ON THIS - something wrong with the plugin. But you can obviously see from the ingredients that it's healthy, low fat, and low calorie!)
(THE NUTRITIONAL INFO IS WAYYY OFF ON THIS - something wrong with the plugin. But you can obviously see from the ingredients that it's healthy, low fat, and low calorie!)