Leftover Vegetable Soup Recipe – Glam Radar

by Maria · September 2, 2014

Leftover Vegetable Soup Recipe :

If you’re anything like me, you’ve still got a concerning amount of Christmas leftovers languishing in your fridge. I’ve never liked wasting food, a quality which I think I inherited from my mother; she is the type of person who gnaws the last bit of meat from a chicken bone. This particularly unimaginately-named soup is less of a recipe and more of an idea for using up the series of droopy vegetables you are likely to find in your crisper drawer.

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My version included a brown onion, two celery sticks, most of a sweet potato, two carrots, and about six Brussels sprouts, along with some fresh sage and thyme from my little garden — but you can use any vegetables and/or herbs you have knocking about. In the interests of my continued survival, I added vegetarian protein in the form of dried soup mix (usually a mixture of split peas, barley, and lentils).

I find making soup a meditative practice; I think it’s something to do with the combination of  familiar ingredients, leisurely chopping and stirring, making such a satisfyingly large quantity of something, and knowing there’s not much that can go wrong. I’m a dorky introvert and over the Christmas period I got all social-ed out, so when the house finally emptied yesterday evening I quietly made this soup and felt much better.

Leftover Vegetable Soup Recipe :

  • 2 cups of dried soup mix
  • 6 cups of water
  • 2 cups (or more) of mixed grated vegetables – onion, celery, carrot, etc.
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • Small handful of mixed herbs – sage, thyme, parsley etc.
  • A knob of butter
  • 1 vegetable stock cube
  • 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
  • Pepper to season
  1. Put the soup mix and water in a large saucepan and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 30 mins (or until soup mix is tender).
  2. Meanwhile, in a frying pan, gently fry the vegetables, garlic and herbs in the butter until they are soft.
  3. Next, add the vegetable mix to the soup mix. You may find you need to add more water at this stage, depending on how thick you like your soup. Add a vegetable stock cube to the soup, along with a tablespoon of soy sauce (if you like your soup to be quite savoury).
  4. Simmer the soup for a further 15 minutes to let all the flavours mingle, then season the soup with pepper to taste (you probably won’t need to add salt as the stock cube and soy sauce are already quite salty).
  5. You can either leave the soup as-is or purée half or all of it, if you prefer a smoother consistency .

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