Recipe #24 Back to basics: vegetable vegan soup 1.01

You may not know how to cook but if you can make soup you'll be just fine ! :) Soup is not 'cooking'. It's chopping vegetables into a pot and getting the right amount of water.

Here's a basic recipe with some greens

3 potatoes

2 carrots

1 courgette 

1 onion

2 garlic cloves 

1/4 cup olive oil

1 tablespoon sea salt (reduce it if you need for health reasons)

1/2 tablespoon black pepper (this makes it a bit spicy, add a pinch only if you don't like spicy)

4 big leaves of cabbage

1 tomato (optional)

Cut the potatoes, carrots, onion, garlic, courgette into a big pot. Add salt and pepper and the olive oil. 

Cut one tomato. Cover with water all the vegetables and add another 1/3 of the water you just added.

Cook everything till the vegetables are soft, around 20-30 minutes.

Pure everything thoroughly, now wash and cut some cabbage leaves into thin slices.

Add them to the soup and let it cook for another 5-10 min.

And it's done !

This makes almost over 1 liters of soup !
So the basic for a soup is

- Potato 2

- Carrots 1

- Onion + garlic + salt + pepper and olive oil

No need for man-made stock cubes which are filled with salt and artificial flavors !

All else is optional and you can play around to taste:

Courgette can substitute potato,

Sweet potato for taste or instead potatos,

Green beans instead of cabbage,

Small pasta instead of cabbage,

Red kidney beans in the pure or instead of the cabbage,

Butter  beans in the pure or instead of the cabbage,
spinach instead of the cabbage,
chickpeas instead of the cabbage...

Whatever you like ! Have fun with 'souping' :)