Best Homemade Healthy Vegetable Soup!

Looking for healthy and easy soup recipes to bring out serious excitement for your weeknight meals, this season? Our fresh and flavorful, Vegetable soup is not only easy to whip together in less than 20 minutes, but is also loaded with healthy nutrients.

Can you think of any other smart way to maximize your veggie intake this season? Try our simple and delicious Vegetable soup recipe today!

Why would you want to pay $10, for a pint of store bought soup, when you can make a larger quantity and a healthier soup for yourself at home? This vegan curry soup is the perfect answer to warming your wintry cold evenings.Did I tell you , it is so easy to make?

What are the best vegetables to put in a soup?

• Carrots
• Beans
• Mushrooms
• Cauliflower
• Green Peas
• Potatoes
• Bell Peppers
• Sweet Corn
• Butternut squash
• Cabbage
• Spring Onions
• Spinach

Pretty much any vegetable can be used in making this healthy Vegetable soup. Avoiding watery vegetables like cucumber , water cress, radish etc would ensure less sogginess in your soups.

What spices and herbs go into making this vegetable soup?

• Bay leaf
• Cinnamon
• Red Chili flakes
• Garam Masala
• Black Pepper powder

The spices above along with fresh and minced ginger and garlic, adds to the flavor of this soup.

What other ingredients were used in this Vegetable Soup?

• Lemon
• Apple Cider Vinegar

They both help as detox agents and keeping the cold and flu at bay, just like ginger and garlic which also have inflammatory properties, making this soup healthy and hearty.

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Do you have to cook the vegetables before putting them in the soup?

Vegetables like Onion and garlic will need to sauteed or at least need a brief sweat in a fat based liquid like ghee or oil, before adding the other ingredients into the soup making process.

Vegetables like carrot, beans, green peas etc can work just fine added directly to the simmering soup and stews.

What can you add to vegetables for flavor?

To infuse your vegetables with flavor and mouth-watering aromas, sauté them in butter or oil (coconut, olive etc) along with garlic and herbs like bay leaves.

Next spice them up with salt, pepper, cinnamon sticks ,red chili flakes, and garam masala. Add in the sliced vegetables along with water or broth and stir yourself a healthy vegetable soup for wintry cold evenings.

How to thicken up Vegetable soup?

• Make a vegetable broth by blending some vegetables and use it as thickener. This is where immersion blenders come in handy!
• Adding oats or barley flour ( 3 tbsp in 1/4 cup water) or corn flour/corn starch
• Making a broth of boiled potato (1-2)
• Adding cream or yogurt
• Blending in bread
• Adding cooked lentils or rice

What can I pair vegetable soup with?

Sop it all up with a warm piece of naan or pair it with some toasted bread if you like.Honestly speaking it is a healthy hearty meal in itself. When you stir a big pot of this soup on the weekend, you can rest assured it will take care of your weekday dinners for the rest of the week. You don’t have rush through crazy traffic with the stress of getting home and starting to cook dinner all over again.

Vegetable Soup Recipe

Best Homemade Healthy Vegetable Soup!

Recipe by Maya Shetty

Our fresh and flavorful, Vegetable soup is not only easy to whip together in less than 20 minutes, but is also loaded with healthy nutrients.

Course: SOUPSCuisine: IndianDifficulty: Easy

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Servings

servings

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

10

minutes

Calories

6977

kcal

Total time

20

minutes

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp 1 Coconut Oil can substitute with ghee or butter

• 6 6 -8 Spring Onions finely chopped

• 1 1 Ginger minced fine

• 4 4 -5 cloves Garlic minced fine

• 6 6 -10 Carrots peeled and cut to desired shape

• 1 cup 1 Beans cut to desired shape

• 1 cup 1 Sweet corn

• 1 cup 1 Spinach

• 2 2 Potatoes Peeled and cubed

• 3 cups 3 Water or Vegetable stock

• 1 tbsp 1 Corn flour/starch mixed with 1/4 cup water

• 1 tbsp 1 Sugar optional

• Salt to taste

• 1 tbsp 1 Apple Cider Vinegar

• Spices

• 1 1 stick Cinnamon

• 1 large 1 Bay leaf

• 2 tsp 2 Red Chili flakes

• 2 tsp 2 Black Pepper Powder

Directions

• Wash the vegetables well under running water. Set aside.
• Peel the carrots and cut into desired size, same goes for beans, cauliflower and other veggies that need to be cut into smaller pieces of desired size.
• Next in a soup pot/ dutch oven heat some coconut oil/ghee. To this add the bay leaf, cinnamon stick and minced garlic, saute a bit till a nice aroma emanates.
• Next add in the clean and cut vegetables, stirring them a little and sauteing them till they turn soft under a high flame.
• When the veggies turn tender, pour in the water/stock to the veggies along with salt to taste. Cook covered for a few minutes.
• Meanwhile in a small bowl mix the corn flour/starch to 1/4 cup of water, making sure there are no lumps. Gently pour this mix into the boiling soup mix and allow it to thicken.
• Gently stirring the soup mix, would thicken the soup after addition of the corn starch. The soup will thicken further on cooling, so don’t over do the thickening, if you like your soup a little watery and not too thick.
• Next add in the sugar and black pepper powder.Stir it well and switch off the flame.
• Set aside to cool a bit, then add the red chili flakes and the Apple Cider Vinegar.
• Taste to see if the soup needs more salt.Add if necessary at this point. Serve hot in soup bowls along with toasted bread or naan.
• Rice or noodles can also be added to the soup, if you so prefer it, or you can drink/eat the soup as a wholesome meal by itself.

Notes

• Ginger is optional, but it certainly adds to the flavor of the soup.
• I have used corn starch as the thickening agent in my vegetable soup here. You may use boiled potato broth or vegetable broth, if you so desire.
• An immersion blender is a favorite kitchen gadget to have while making soups. Check the other essential kitchen gadgets for making homemade soup in my blogpost here.

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Links to my other soup recipes

Ahead, you’ll find soups that utilize all the best flavors of Fall. You’re bound to encounter a few fall soups that speak to your taste buds. And not only can you get creative with what you put in each recipe, but you can also break out your slow cooker or Instant Pot for some of these recipes, making for easy dinner options too.

Creamy Vegetarian Soups

• Chickpea and Spinach Soup
• Broccoli Cheese Soup
• Spinach Cream Soup
• Creamy Carrot Soup
• Homemade Vegetable Soup

Clear Vegetarian Soups/Rasam

• Rasam/Clear Vegetarian Soup
• Watermelon Rasam
• Tomato Rasam
• Radish leaves Rasam
• Cranberry Rasam
• Garlic Rasam
• Lemon Rasam

Soups with Meat

• Chicken Soup for the soul
• Hyderabadi Marag/Mutton Soup
• South Indian Mutton Soup
• Nilgiri Chicken Kurma/Nilgiri Chicken Soup

Enjoy the soup season, trying out the delicious and comforting soup recipes found here.

The Bottom Line

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You are sure to enjoy this Vegetable Soup recipe. When you can simmer your own delicious potful of soup, at home, why hunt for restaurants that serve them? Nothing as soothing, as a bowl of hot spicy soup in front of your fireplace on a cold wintery evening, served with toasted bread or naan.

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