Easy, Healthy Vegetable & Bacon Soup
List of Ingredients
Easy, Healthy Vegetable & Bacon Soup
1 or 2 Bacon Bones (to your taste)
1 Garlic Clove
1 Onion (large)
1 Turnip
1 Parsnip
1 Zucchini
2 Potatoes (large)
3 Carrots
3 Stalks Celery + leaves
Pumpkin - Good sized chunk or to taste
3/4 Cup Pearl Barley or Soup Mix - all the good
healthy grains you need!
Stock Powder - I use 'Vegeta' a veggie one
Salt, Pepper
Splash Olive Oil
Peel and chop all the veggies to preferred sizes. Saute the onion in
the olive oil, add garlic after a few minutes. Add chopped celery and
carrot and saute together until softer. I also sprinkle in some stock
powder and some water if it is all sticking (it adds a lovely flavor
when it scoops up all the crispy bits!). I then pop in the bacon
bone/s about a litre of water and the stock powder. Bring to the
boil, pop in all your chopped up veggies, the soup mix and any further
seasonings you may like i.e. salt, pepper, mixed herbs, chilli
flakes.
Once it boils again, reduce heat to low and allow to simmer for about
an hour to an hour and a half. Make sure you keep stirring so your
barley does not stick, and keep adding water as it reduces down.
Remove the bacon bone, leaving all that lovely flavour... I then pop
the soup into the blender, puree until smooth and refrigerate (once
cooled) overnight. If you prefer your soup more rustic, just serve as
is - minus the bacon bone. Although I make this ahead, its great to
make on a Sunday afternoon as I can never resist a wee bowlful to make
sure all is A.OK and then you have a simple Sunday supper. Reheat the
next day with a nice warm, crusty bread roll and enjoy the healthy
goodness (and no fat!). Recipe
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