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Green Soup
30 April 2014 00:46Here's a cooking idea that is really simple, especially if you frequently have bags of frozen vegetables in storage.
Take a bag of mixed frozen broccoli and cauliflower florets, a 1/4 to a 1/3 of frozen diced onion (you could probably use fresh onion too), a pile of leftover fresh spinach leaves and put in a saucepan with your favourite stock (I used a mix of Massel's vegetable and chicken style* stock powder).
Boil until all vegetables appear to be tender. Over-boiling is not really an issue.
Strain and reserve stock, put vegetables in a blender and add enough stock so the blender does not stall, and blend until moderately smooth.
Return to saucepan and add more of reserved stock to thin as you wish. If you over-thin, if you have it in your cupboard, you can add potato powder.
Simple green soup! Can have any added dressings and add-ins that you like. I put cream in and ate with wheat crackers.
This method can probably be done with any type of vegetable, though including red, yellow and orange vegies will change the colour. Don't let that stop you!
(* Massel stock is completely vegetarian, even the "Chicken Style" and "Beef Style" flavours. There are no animal products, the chicken and beef flavour is achieved by mixing vegetarian ingredients. I like the flavour of their chicken and vegetable stock powders. Massel may be an Australia-only product.)
Take a bag of mixed frozen broccoli and cauliflower florets, a 1/4 to a 1/3 of frozen diced onion (you could probably use fresh onion too), a pile of leftover fresh spinach leaves and put in a saucepan with your favourite stock (I used a mix of Massel's vegetable and chicken style* stock powder).
Boil until all vegetables appear to be tender. Over-boiling is not really an issue.
Strain and reserve stock, put vegetables in a blender and add enough stock so the blender does not stall, and blend until moderately smooth.
Return to saucepan and add more of reserved stock to thin as you wish. If you over-thin, if you have it in your cupboard, you can add potato powder.
Simple green soup! Can have any added dressings and add-ins that you like. I put cream in and ate with wheat crackers.
This method can probably be done with any type of vegetable, though including red, yellow and orange vegies will change the colour. Don't let that stop you!
(* Massel stock is completely vegetarian, even the "Chicken Style" and "Beef Style" flavours. There are no animal products, the chicken and beef flavour is achieved by mixing vegetarian ingredients. I like the flavour of their chicken and vegetable stock powders. Massel may be an Australia-only product.)
