Thick Vegetable Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Chop onion and celery into tiny pieces.
• Put butter in large saucepan. Add onion and celery. Cook over low heat until they are soft-about 5-7 minutes.
• Chop carrots and potatoes into small pieces. Add peas and set aside.
• Open canned tomatoes and place in large mixing bowl and add salt, pepper, basil, and parsley. Mash tomatoes and seasonings with wooden spoon.
• After onions and celery are soft add chicken broth to the saucepan then add carrots, potatoes, peas, and tomatoes and mix with wooden spoon.
• Bring soup to boil and then turn to medium. Boil gently to cook vegetables-about 15 minutes.
• Pour soup in large mixing bowl, and then ladle half of it into blender and blend on low till very smooth. Pour back into saucepan and then blend back into saucepan. Stir in the milk.
• Heat over medium BUT DON"T LET IT BOIL. Ladle soup into bowls and sprinkle the green onions on top.

Steps:

• Pour cold water over carrots, celery, cauliflower and broccoli, sprinkle with Vegeta and cook for 15 minutes until vegetables are tender.
• Portion of the cooked vegetables together with the liquid puree in a blender and pour back into the soup pot. Cook for 2-3 minutes and bring to a boil.
• Add sliced celery stalk, and continue to cook for 1-2 minutes, then remove from heat and stir in the olive oil.
• Light advice: carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and celery can be replaced with other vegetables of your choice.
• A little secret: if you want a thicker soup, cook a small potato (cubed) with the vegetables.

Steps:

• Finely slice both onions and fry in a little oil until soft.
• boil the kettle and measure 2 pints and add the 3 stock cubes. add this to the onions
• chop the carrots, turnip and potatoes, add to the pan, add salt and pepper to season
• leave to boil gently until everything is soft.
• when soft blend the soup until it looks like a puree.
• put back on the hob and add as much or as little frozen veg as you wish to have and simmer gently for 10 mins, add salt and pepper to season.
• serve hot and spiral a little cream over the top for decoration
• if you want it thinner add more vegetable stock little at a time

Steps:

• Add the first 12 ingredients to the crock pot (except extra kidney beans).
• Stir well.
• Cook on low for 8 hours.
• Before serving stir in the chicken, rice, extra kidney beans and peas.
• Allow to heat through and serve.
• I keep cooked chicken in portions in the freezer (from recipe#36944) and also the rice (recipe#56242) making this very easy to prepare.
• This recipe is gluten free as long as you use gluten free stock powder (such as Massell brand).

Steps:

• Saute onions and garlic for 20 minutes on low, or until onions are translucent. Add peas, corn, green beans, tomatoes and onion/garlic mixture in a large pot, and bring to a simmer. Brown ground beef and cook white rice, when done, add to pot with the beef stock and tomato paste, sauce and simmer for 1 hour.