This easy healthy vegetable soup totally surprised me, in a good way. I’m not a huge fan of soups, especially when they don’t have chicken in them, but this simple gut-healthy vegetable soup recipe is a keeper! Benefits include: improved gut health thanks to those 15 plants we’re cooking plus using up vegetables and not being hungry after. Additionally, getting in some lycopene, folate, iron and other good things into your body. I hope you enjoy it for lunch or dinner!
Ingredients:
2/3 cup French lentils*
1 large onion, thinly chopped
2 potatoes, chopped
2 carrot, thinly chopped
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp cumin
2 tsp oregano
2 tsp crushed red pepper
a few pinches of salt**
2 tbsp olive oil
4-5 cups water (or stock)
4-5 white button mushrooms, chopped
1 1/2 cup cauliflower, chopped
3 scallions, thinly chopped
3-4 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/2 cup kale, thinly chopped
2-3 tbsp tomato paste (as needed)
Fresh dill and oregano (or other herbs you like)
Instructions:
1. Start by washing all the vegetables you will need. Thinly chop the onion, carrot and potato. Free up the cutting board and transfer these to a bowl. 2. Then thinly chop the cauliflower, scallions, kale, herbs. Also the mushrooms.
3. Now start sauteeing the onion with paprika, cumin, dried oregano, crushed red pepper and some olive oil to get things going. This will be 1-2 minutes.
Then add in the carrots, potatoes and some of the water to bring down the heat.
4. Add in the lentils, a few good pinches of salt (if you’re using stock you might not need to do it) and the rest of the water, cover with a lid and bring to a boil.
5. Once boiling reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
6. At this point the lentils should be tender. Once they are, stir in the tomato paste and do a taste test for salt. If needed add some salt.
7. Then add in the minced garlic, scallions, kale, mushrooms and cauliflower, fresh herbs.
8. Increase heat slightly and cook for 5-10 more minutes as needed.
9. Enjoy with some fresh herbs on top.
You’ll find the printable recipe here: https://www.beautybites.org/easy-many-vegetable-soup/